DAVID, Jacques-Louis
Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces
1824
Oil on canvas, 308 x 262 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Some old books have hidden messages on the edge of their pages.
This was done through a technique called “fore-edge painting,” which is an illustration that is hidden on the edge of the pages of the book. The technique allegedly dates back to the 1650s.
Happy 274th birthday to American painter, soldier, scientist, naturalist, and artist family patriarch Charles Willson Peale. You’ll find work by Peale and many of his descendants in our American galleries.
“Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I),” 1795, by Charles Willson Peale
Dominant B.C.S. Anthropomorph Closeup, Supplication Panel, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah (by Jon Bailey.)
NAVEZ, François-Joseph
The Nymph Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
1829
Oil on canvas, 197 x 147 cm
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
PARMIGIANINO
Pallas Athene
c. 1539
Oil on canvas, 63,8 x 45,1 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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