Category: 19th-Century Paintings

• Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter

  

  Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning.  It started with perplexing matters concerning the future.  Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other:  ‘waters to…

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  June 23, 2023

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• Italian Girl With Flowers by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

  

  Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s early portrait of youthful innocence is a masterwork of light. Rendered in liquid, dreamy oils in 1886, Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s impressionist portrait of a young Italian girl’s reverie both presages his later work while also standing resolutely apart. Sorolla y Bastida would later become known for epic works…

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  May 24, 2023

  19th-Century Paintings, Art, Art History, Painting, Painting of the Week

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