Architecture for the blog of it: Ulrich Franzen

Architecture for the blog of it: Ulrich Franzen

Alexandre Benois, Set model for Les Sylphides, 1909, gouache, watercolor, pencil and chalk on card, with bamboo supports,


George Stubbs, Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances, 1769, oil on canvas


Giorgio de Chirico, Conversation among the Ruins, 1927, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art


High Line VI by Christine Beneman


Kerry James Marshall Study for Visible Means of Support Monticello, 2008, acrylic on PVC panel


Léon Bakst, set design (Act I) from Daphnis and Chloe 1912, watercolor, gouache and pencil with gold and silver highlighting, Les Arts Décoratifs, musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris


Thomas de Keyser, Portrait of a Gentleman Wearing a Fancy Ruff 1627, oil on copper, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, 2012


Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Building Mt. Rushmore

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Building Mt. Rushmore

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: yeah, I know but it is sculpture

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: yeah, I know but it is sculpture

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: By jean pierre augier

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: By jean pierre augier

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert

The Art of War (Clever huh?): Soviets in space

The Art of War (Clever huh?): Soviets in space

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, probably 1759, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946


Jacques-Louis David


Gustave Caillebotte, Skiffs 1877, oil on canvas, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985


Green River Cliffs, Wyoming 1881 thomas moran


Giovanni Paolo Panini


Ginevra de' Benci c. 1474 1478 Da Vinci


Georges Braque! Harbor, 1909


Degas!


Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl reading 1770


Pandora, 1910 1912 Redon


Ronnie Cutrone


Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, 1894 monet


Self-Portraits



The Voyage of Life Youth, thomas cole


Walnut oil

In spite of the high cost of walnut oil, Renaissance painters considered it as vital oil for their trade. Jan van Eyck and Peter Paul Reubens attested to the oil's anti-aging properties that endowed their artwork with greater endurance.