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fuckyeahstsebastian: Paul Troger (1698-1762),Martyrium des...

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:47:07 -0800

Paul Troger (1698-1762),
Martyrium des heiligen Sebastian/The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (1754(?)),

fuckyeahstsebastian: Paul Troger (1698-1762),St Sebastian and...

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:20:07 -0800

Paul Troger (1698-1762),
St Sebastian and the Women

We here at Hell Yes Art History are fond of St Sebastian, though not so nearly as fond as fuckyeahstsebastian is. Take a gander at our dear bro’s blog and give a follow, if you enjoy lovely pictures of good looking men stuck full of ~~eros~~ arrows.

Fearless Leader Simplifies Life

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:52:35 -0800

In a week or so, Hell Yes Art History will be transitioning over to another account for ease of updating and more regular posting. The archive on HYAH is going to be moved over to the new account, and in the process of this your fearless leader will make it very clear where you should redirect your adulation and queries.

This will be painless, WE PROMISE, and will ensure that you get your dose of art and innuendo on time and in the correct measurement.

Adoration of the Magi, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. 1632, Oil...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:41:06 -0800

Adoration of the Magi, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. 1632, Oil on paper pasted onto canvas. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.

In the interest of fairness, Rembrandt.

No real snide commentary. It’s lovely. Yep. Lovely and sedate.

Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano. 1423, Galleria degli...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:05:06 -0800

Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano. 1423, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Gentile da Fabriano is recognized as a master of the International Gothic style, the last truly international style of art. Look at all the shiny gold, which reflects light and works to balance out the use of a proper landscape and sense of depth and perspective in the background. This is NOT perspective in the mathematical linear sense, people, it just means there’s a clear sense of foreground and background.

Detail from Journey of the Magi, Benozzo Gozzoli....

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:44:06 -0800

Detail from Journey of the Magi, Benozzo Gozzoli. ca.1459-1463, Palazzo Medici, Florence.

Gozzoli painted this large series in the family chapel at the Palazzo Medici. In it are portraits of numerous family members, as well as a self portrait. The big picture up top is a group portrait of the three sisters of Lorenzo de Medici as young pages in the retinue of one of the kings.

What, how else was he going to paint them? You can’t exactly paint Lorenzo de Medici’s sisters as harlots in the train of the Three Wise Men, you’d get drawn and quartered!

ringlunatic: Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Magi,...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:14:49 -0800

ringlunatic:

Peter Paul Rubens, Adoration of the Magi, 1624

Because hellyesarthistory (follow that shit everyone!) is having a bit of a Rubens-fest I was reminded of this painting. This painting is the main reason why I wanted to study art history. I saw it for the first time when I was 6 or 7 in a comic book and BANG! love at first sight.

The first time I saw it in Antwerp was years later, during my second year in my art history study. It’s was as gorgeous (and big!) as I imagined it to be. It was (they are redecorating the museum right now) in a gorgeous spot in the museum as well: a huge room with other huge Rubens paintings at the sides of it.

Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens. 1634, Kings College...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:26:06 -0800

Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens. 1634, Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, England.

Oh look, another Rubens. Perhaps HYAH has a bias because Rubens gets a bad rap behind Rembrandt sometimes, and Rubens is the artist that cemented art history as a career for our fearless leader.

Er. Enjoy the painting.

ART HISTORY.

We're halfway out of the dark.

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:07:00 -0800

We're halfway out of the dark.:

lizapants:

Which makes it Tumblr Tuesday! Hell Yes Art History will resume a regular posting schedule as of 10 minutes ago, so it’s time to remind the world that art history is fucking AWESOME by recommending it!

Taking a leaf from other tumblrs and adding incentive- drop HYAH a note once you’ve recommended us, and we will thank you by name!

Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens. 1617-18, Musée des...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:46:24 -0800

Adoration of the Magi, Peter Paul Rubens. 1617-18, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

In the liturgical calendar, the feast of the Adoration of the Magi takes place on January 6. Considering from how far afield the Magi were coming (Africa, the ~Orient~, and somewhere in Europe), getting to Bethlehem on the 6th is pretty impressive.

Louise de Keroualle, Sir Peter Lely. 1671.

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:40:46 -0800

Louise de Keroualle, Sir Peter Lely. 1671.

Guess what, meine Engel, it is Tumblr Tuesday!

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:08:53 -0800

Guess what, meine Engel, it is Tumblr Tuesday!:

Time to recommend Hell Yes Art History, if you are so moved!

Ginevra (version 2), Hiram Powers.1863-1864. Smithsonian...

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:19:46 -0800

Ginevra (version 2), Hiram Powers.1863-1864. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Ginevra is based on part of Samuel Rogers’ poem Italy, focusing on the section about a young teenage girl and her wedding day. She is so giddy and silly that she runs off to play hide and seek (WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE), and disappears. Fifty years later, someone finds a skeleton in a trunk in the attic, and it is identified as Ginevra because of an engraved ring.

The bust itself references 15th century Italian paintings wherein ladysaints are dressed up in “historical” costume- no one actually dressed like this. This then becomes an American sculptor in the 19th century trying to make his 15th century subject look historically appropriate and FAILING.

ART HISTORY

Hundreds of unknown Picasso works discovered in Paris | Art and design | The Guardian

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:42:40 -0800

Hundreds of unknown Picasso works discovered in Paris | Art and design | The Guardian:

ringlunatic:

An extraordinary cache of hundreds of works by Pablo Picasso, painted during his most creative period and worth a conservative estimate of €60m (£50.5m), has been uncovered at the home of a retired French electrician.

The collection of 271 paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs, many of which were previously unknown, dates from 1900 to 1932.

Among the works are nine cubist collages worth at least €40m, a painting from his celebrated blue period, drawings and models for some of his most important works and portraits of his first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova.

HOLY FUCK

While HYAH is not Picasso’s biggest fan, we recognize how important this could be to Picasso scholars.

Ok, here's the deal... I need to make a HUGE project on art movements and I dont know what to write about symbolism... :/ I need help. There's a picture on http://hellyesarthistory.tumblr.com/, (Frank Cadogan Cowper Vanity, 1907). I really like it but my teacher is all like, "Why was it made?? And like where..." So im all like Wait whaaaaat?? So just...HELP!!! I love your site BTW its like.... AWESOME.. Made my project 100%better.

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:00:38 -0800

If you’re at a university, your best bet is going to be looking through Jstor.org for articles on Cowper, British Symbolism, or that painting in particular. The library is also going to be a good place, any decent sized library will have at least a survey book on Symbolism. Art history is not just about OOO PRETTY, it’s actually EVERY LIBERAL ARTS DISCIPLINE, plus IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF FORMAL QUALITIES, TECHNIQUE, AND STYLE. Good luck on your project!

Ophelia, Arthur Hughes. ca. 1851 - 53. One of many Preraphaelite...

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:06:07 -0800

Ophelia, Arthur Hughes. ca. 1851 - 53.

One of many Preraphaelite Ophelias, Hughes’ is distinguished because she looks TWELVE. Well done, Hamlet, you perv.

ART HISTORY.

The Danaides, John William Waterhouse. 1903, private...

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:21:28 -0800

The Danaides, John William Waterhouse. 1903, private collection.

The Danaides were the 50 daughters of an exiled Egyptian king who slaughtered their husbands on their wedding night (except one, who was a TERRIBLE DISOBEDIENT DAUGHTER but a very good wife), and so were condemned in the underworld to fill a vessel with holes in the bottom for all eternity.

ART HISTORY

Oh shit, I totally remembered what I was going to post! It was another "today in Art History I learned..." from a couple weeks ago.

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:59:55 -0800

-everykissbeginswithkay:

So like, back in the day, being gay/bi/pan/poly/whatever was totally acceptable. And being queer in the military was actually a good thing, because if you’re fighting alongside someone you love, you’re more likely to kick the other guys’ asses. You’re not only fighting for yourself or your country; you’re fighting for your lover.

Isn’t that the most wonderful fucking thing you ever heard?

Achilles tending Patroclus wounded by an arrow, identified by inscriptions on the upper part of the vase. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, ca. 500 BC. From Vulci.

trouve-moi: “Those angels and demons are so mean. They’re...

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:54:34 -0800

trouve-moi:

“Those angels and demons are so mean. They’re obviously breaking up a three-way between these two naked guys and their robed friend. This must be hell, because group sex is definitely allowed in heaven.”

from The Gayest Images from Michelangelo’s Most Famous Painting

HYAH approves of this commentary.

Rapunzel, Frank Cadogan Cowper. 1900. The De Morgan Foundation,...

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:44:00 -0800

Rapunzel, Frank Cadogan Cowper. 1900. The De Morgan Foundation, Battersea, London.

I’ve got nothing sarcastic to say about this. IT’S PRETTY, FUCK YOU. There.

ART HISTORY.