Beata Beatrix - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Astronomer and The Geographer (1668-1669) by Johannes Vermeer. Interestingly, these are two of only three paintings that the artist ever signed and dated.
Jean-Jacques Henner - Saint Sébastien (1888)
Paul Delaroche - Herodias
Joanna Mary Boyce, Elgiva, 1855.
“The expression in this head is so subtle, and so tenderly wrought, that at first the picture might easily be passed as hard or cold; but it could only so be passed, as Elgiva herself might have been sometimes seen, -by a stranger- without penetration of her sorrow. As we watch the face for a little time, the slight arch of the lip seems to begin to quiver, and the eyes fill with ineffable sadness and on-look of despair.” Ruskin.
poboh: 1457 Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian Renaissance, ca 1406-69) ~ Madonna and Child with Angels (detail)
The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ (detail) Botticelli ca. 1490-92
