Art

hans zatzka - the enchanted boat ride

Hans Zatzka, also known as P. Ronsard, was an Academic, Austrian artist. Zatzka was a painter of allegorical subjects, genre scene paintings, and figures. Zatzka spent many years dedicating his painting to the churches and other known establishments of Austria.

Fete at Rambouillet or island of Love, circa 1770, by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)

pastoral scene - young shepherd

girl with a violin - henry harewood robinson

armand point - la dame à la licorne (1898)

Pinckney Marcius-Simons (1867-1909), Parsifal - 1904

Design for the chariot of Thetis by Jean Berain and workshop, circa 1674-8 Paris, musée du Louvre, collection Rothschild.

gustave moreau

The Birth of Venus 

 (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. It has long been suggested that Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de' Medici, close patron to Botticelli. However, there are no documents associated with the painting, and its first identification with the Medici family only comes in the 1550 edition of Vasari's Lives. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as an adult woman, arriving at the shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

 

sea melodies - herbert james draper