Fine Art Friday

In honor of the Pens advancing to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a little hockey for your Friday.


Hockey Players by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, before 1938.


Hockey Memories of Saint Urbain Street by Carole Spandau, date unknown.


Hockey Night in Canada by Ken Danby, 2002.


Where Dreams are Born, James Lumbers, date unknown.


Hockey Passion by Lena Khomoutova, 2008.


The Kid by Dave Olsen, 2009.

"The Kid" refers to Sidney Crosby, the Penguins Captain. He was the youngest captain in NHL history.

Go Penguins!

Fine Art Friday: Religious Orders

Detail Showing the Poor Clares from St. Clare Grieving Over the Body of St. Francis by Giotto, 1300.


A detail of Benedict from a fresco in San Marco, Florence by Fra Angelico, 1439-1445.


St. Francis with another Friar by the Master of Hoogstraten, date unknown.


Nuns by Armand Gautier, before 1894.


Jesuiten III by Lyonel Feininger, 1915.


Dominicans. A Convent Garden Near Florence by Elihu Vedder, before 1923.

Fine Art Friday: Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the 17th century, is considered one of the founders of European classicism, a movement in art, based on antique and Renaissance heritage. Poussin was born in Normandy, in Les-Andelys, in 1594. The son of an impoverished family, Poussin received some early professional training at home. In 1612, Poussin left for Paris, where he entered the workshop of the mannerist painter J. Lallemald. The training was reinforced by independent study of, mainly, Italian art in the Royal Collections. By the end of the 1610s Poussin became an authoritative master, the evidence of this are his commissions for the decoration of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, and the big altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin.

See Olga's Gallery for more...


St. Cecilia, 1627-28



The Triumph of David, 1630



Pharaoh's Daughter Finds the Baby Moses, 1638



The Marriage of the Virgin, 1640



The Last Supper, 1640s



The Holy Family, 1641

Fine Art Friday: Hearth and Home

Jamestown by Sidney E. King, date unknown



An Old Man putting Dry Rice on the Hearth by Vincent Van Goth, date unknown



Peasant Woman Cooking by the Fireplace by Vincent Van Goth, 1885



Woman sitting at open fireplace while preparing food by Henry Edward Spernon Tozer, British, 1870 - 1940



Hearth by Mary Sweeney, date unknown



Hearth by Judith Cheng, date unknown

Fine Art Friday--Sleeping Child Edition

...because this is what we didn't do last night.





Madonna with Sleeping Child by Andrea Mantegna, 1465



Sleeping Child by Unknown Artist, 17th Century



Cuddle Doon by Alexander Anderson, 1895



A Mother with her Sleeping Child by Leon Basile Perrault, 1896



Untitled by Mira, 2003



Peace is the Promise of the Future in Norway, 2007

Fine Art Friday: Grace Before Meals

Grace before the Meal, by Anthonius Claessins, c. 1538-1613



Grace Before a Meal by Jan Steen, 1660



Grace Before Meal by Jean Baptiste Chardin, 1740



Grace Before Meat by Sir David Wilkie, 1839



Grace by Enstrom, 1918



Family Grace by Norman Rockwell, 1938

Creative Touches

I LOVE art and display some of my favorite works in our home. Images such as:

(Kitchen)







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(Bedroom)













grace our home, among others. However, I think my favorite piece has to be this one:






because I was given this on a SHOWER CURTAIN! (My brother knows my humor so well) So in our guest bathroom, I furnished some cream colored towels and rugs, placed a lovely watercolor print of the Duomo in Florence next to the sink, and hung the curtain. Ironically the angels appear to be casually looking away while you...

New Desktop

My new background picture on my work computer. Isn't it pretty?! I really do enjoy Millet's work.

Bouguereau

I love this work by William Bouguereau. It is aptly named, "Charity." Our Lady is continously giving of herself in this image. I, too, am nourished.