Built by Peter Thumb (1681–1767). Today is Saint George's Day.

Photographer: H. Zell

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I enjoyed these sculptures, so I thought I'd share them here.

The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture made by unknown Etruscan sculptors (5th century BC), with the twins Romulus and Remus added in the late 15th century AD, by sculptor Antonio del Pollaiuolo. The sculptural group depicts a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, occurred on 21 April 753 BC.

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Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death. The first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), she became heir presumptive when the duke became king in 1936 upon the abdication of Edward VIII. During the Second World War, she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She married Philip Mountbatten in 1947; they were wed for 73 years until his death in 2021. She became queen on her father's death in 1952, and reigned for seven decades through dramatic changes in her realms, attaining the oldest age of any British monarch (96), and having the longest reign. She faced media criticism of her family over the breakups of her children's marriages, and after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. However, support for the monarchy in Britain remained high, as did her popularity. Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle and was succeeded by her eldest son, Charles III. This 1933 oil-on-canvas painting of Elizabeth (then Princess Elizabeth of York) aged seven was created by Anglo-Hungarian artist Philip de László. It is now in the Royal Collection.

Author: Philip de László

This artwork was made by children in a kindergarten. It hung in the entrance there for quite some time and fascinated me then, and still does today.

At the kindergarten's annual summer festival, it was auctioned off to make place for a new piece, and I was lucky to buy it. The proceeds were intended to raise funds for the art supplies for the new project. As I later learned, the winning bid wasn't quite enough. I added the remaining amount (it wasn't far off) to the final bid. I.still enjoy the artwork today.

It reminds me a little of the works of Gerhard Richter.

Edit: Typos

Artist's blog.

Las Meninas. Pablo Picasso. 1957

Seen recently on our visit to Museo Picasso in Barcelona.

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Shearing the Rams is an 1890 oil painting on canvas by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed. Roberts modelled the painting on a shearing shed at what is now called Killeneen, an outstation of the 24,000-hectare (59,000-acre) Brocklesby sheep station, near Corowa in the Riverina region of New South Wales. One of Australia's best-known paintings, this and other Australian Impressionist works gave visual expression to an emerging sense of national identity. The painting is currently in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

Author: Tom Roberts

Pablo Picasso. La Nana, 1901. Oil on cardboard.

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I'm working through Modelling & Sculpting the Human Figure by Edouard Lanteri. This bust is used as the example for sculpting the head. Lanteri is working from a plaster copy of the original.

On pg. 39 he gives the title as 'The Lawyer' by Donatello. I haven't been able to find this sculpture attributed to Donatello.

For the earlier examples he's using Michaelangelo's David and I've been able to print my references. I was hoping to find a model of this sculpture as well.

Can anyone please give me more information?

The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died believing the world was not ready for the mystical paintings that would shock the art world half a century later.

The painter, now credited with pioneering the abstract art movement, did not seek recognition after peers rejected her avant garde works. Instead, she ordered that they be hidden for 20 years after her death and never sold…

Af Klint exhibition to highlight exclusion of women from abstract art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/10/who-was-hilma-af-klint-exhibition-to-highlight-exclusion-of-women-from-abstract-art

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Dragons and serpents

Draugr - sorta of an undead in medieval stories and litterature. Later they became more associated with people who had died at the sea.

Trolls

Gnomes

Witch with spindle

Soria Moria - a Norwegian folk tale