Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Belshazzar’s Feast, John Martin
Belshazzar’s Feast, mezzotint; & Belshazzar’s Feast, painting; John Martin John Martin was a 19th century British artist noted for his dramatic depictions of disasters and/or impending disasters. Here are two of his interpretations of the Biblical story of Belshazzar’s Feast, in which the arrogant ruler of Babylon shows his disdain for the enslaved population of…
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The Nativity, Albrecht Durer
The Nativity, Albrecht Durer Engraving, in the collection of the national Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. In this beautiful early 16th century engraving by one of the great masters of printmaking,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dore illustration for Fables of La Fontaine
Shepherd Wolf, Gustave Doré Link is to WikiArt, from this page. 19th century illustrator and printmaker Guatave Doré is noted primarily for his dramatic illustrations for Dante’s Devine Comedy and Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Cervantes Don Quijote, as well as The Bible. Less well known are his illustrations for Shakespeare plays, other epic poems…
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Didier Graffet
Didier Graffet is a French illustrator, recognized in particular for his fantasy and steampunk themed work. Well known in his native France, Graffet is undeservedly less familiar here in the U.S. Graffet uses a keen sense of value relationships, a muted palette and a good amount of intricate, textural detail to create arresting images that…
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Shiro Kasamatsu
Shiro Kasamatsu was a Japanese painter, print designer and printmaker active in the 20th century. Though he initially studied with Kaburagi Kiyokata —a master of the bijin-ga movement, which focused on figurative subjects — Kasamatsu chose landscape as his primary subject. Kasamatsu is known particularly for his delicately finessed portrayals of rain, mist, snow and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching and preliminary painting
Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching & drypoint; roughly 8 x 7 inches (21 x 18 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the Jewish Museum, New York, which has a downloadable version. Portrait of a Man, thought to be Dr. Ephraïm Bueno, Rembrandt, oil on…