Personally i save the image to my computer, alter its name, and then upload it to either tinypic.com or imageshack :)
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Personally i save the image to my computer, alter its name, and then upload it to either tinypic.com or imageshack :)
I couldn't get StLukes picture which I think is a medieval illuminated manuscript but I couldn't trace it.
I'm going to try image shack below:
[IMG=http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1884/grosz1.jpg][/IMG]
It works up to a point. I shall have to find out how to transmit the image rather than the URL.
I know very little about art, but St Lukes has posted the medieval manuscript picture before somewhere, in a piece about William Blake. I dont know the title though.
Yes I remembered it too, but he has posted so many pictures on various threads that I didn't know where to start looking .Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
You can either go through his blog where he keeps a log of all his artistic essays, or go to his website http://stlukesguild.wordpress.com/ and scroll down the page. It's not even that far down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Brian, you can save an image off the web to your hard drive and then edit it any way you wish... including "painting" out signatures or changing the name of the file. You then upload to Photobucket or some such other hosting site. Once you have posted it you can always delete the image... although I have tens of thousands of images saved... which is no problem with a newer computers and all their storage capability.
Now, now mortal... considering that I post everything using a Photobucket account, I could always delete the image.:devil:
Clues: The book is alluded to in The Name of the Rose.
It is Spanish.
I usually use tinypic.com after saving it to my computer with a simple name.
Spanish? Not Italian then? This is a tricky one...
The work in question is Spanish from the Romanesque period. The work exhibits aspects of the Mozarabic style... elements of Moorish African merged with the native Spanish. The book from which this image was taken was surely known to Picasso and influential upon his art... especially upon the painting, Guernica. It is from a book of commentaries upon the book of Revelations that was very popular with Spanish writers/artists of the time.
Are we talking about the same thing here. Is the last picture that you posted, from a Spanish book?Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I've found a lot of pieces that look like it, but not it. Hmmmm.
Brian... yes... the piece is from a Spanish book... an illuminated manuscript. The text is a Commentary on the Apocalypse written by an 8th century abbot and Visigoth Bishop. The artist, as usual for the time, is anonymous so you merely need to discover the name of the Spanish Abbott/Bishop/Saint and you will find the work in question with a simple Google image search.:ihih:
This text... a Commentary on the Apocalypse... was one of the most popular books of the era in Spain and ended up being illustrated or illuminated numerous times. The resulting illuminated manuscripts are among some of the most fabulous examples of medieval book arts. The mystery painting is from one of the finest of these...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/...bf1e9b4e_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/...96010b22_b.jpg
I browsed the net searching for the mysterious abbot, and I think I found something - his name was Saint Beatus of Liebana, a monk, theologian and geographer who lived in the region of Liebana, today's Cantabria in the 8th century (c.730 - c.800).
So, I browsed further and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment...the_Apocalypse
Please, correct me if I'm on the wrong path, but I still can't find the mysterious painting!
Just enter Beatus of Liebana into a Google image search. It shows up on page 3 for me.:confused5:
It's there alright. But with no title underneath or above it!
Am I blind, or what? :willy_nilly:
And even though the quest is interesting (I found so many exciting information along the way!), you should've picked something easier.
Now come on and tell us, so we can start a new one!
I like that it was hard. Instead of typing "Beatus of Liebana" I typed in "Beatus de St-Sever" which came out with less results, but some similar.
It doesn't give an obvious name that I can see. D:
Well, you certainly gave everyone a challenge with that one, St. Luke's. I'm not too familiar with the Commentaria in Apocalypsin MSS and I can't seem to find that particular image online with any useful information attached, so I looked up some Beatus images on Artstor and, guessing from a brief comparison with the hand that did the script and the artistic style, I am guessing the Facundus Beatus at the Biblioteca Nacional d'Espagna. Am I right? My second guess would probably be the Saint-Sever MS if you hadn't already let on that the book is Spanish, so as a backup to the Facundus I would go for the Morgan Beatus.
If I'm right about one of these then I choose this as the next painting:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...mysterypic.jpg
Google has just changed their layout for image search (quite nicely, I might add) but I agree that the specific edition of the book in question is difficult to find. The text was the Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Saint Beatus of Liebana. The specific edition of the text was that of the Commentaries of St. Severe. The Beatus of Sant-Sever was illuminated in the middle of the 11th century by Stephanus Garsia for Gregorio Montaner, the then abbot of the monastery of Saint-Sever, Gascogny (France). The artist (presumably) and author were Spanish... and the style is distinctly Spanish... but it was indeed created in France... and the image I posted was probably the most French of all the images in the book which contains 592 pages and more than 140 miniatures depicting the best and most primitive Romanesque art.
I discovered this absolutely stunning website which presents digital images of the entire book!:eek6: Looking at the stylistic variations of the images, I suspect that Stephanus had the assistance of several other hands working upon this masterpiece of medieval art.
By the way... Mortalterror was right. I have posted this image on LitNet. If someone had googled "Stlukesguild Beatus of Liebana" they would find the image in question with the full attribution in a posting entitled, 20 Works of Art You Want to See before You Die.:ihih:
C'mon Petrarch! Mere Child's play:
Hans Holbein
Portrait of Anne of Cleves
c. 1539
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutAnneofCleves.htm
OK... a far easier one than last time:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/...ba45c751_b.jpg
The mystery artist largely employed a rather new medium... first made popular by a woman artist. Another work by him... probably his most famous:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/...1135d0f0_b.jpg
Jean-Étienne Liotard
The first portrait can be translated in English like: Beautiful Reader.
The second is The Chocolate Girl
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/...9bb5ce67_o.jpg
Mikhail Vrubel
The Swan Princess
Russian Symbolism
c. 1900
http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/...ikhail-vrubel/
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/...338d1326de.jpg
Our mystery artist did quite a few ink wash paintings...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/...71511463_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/...57741483e2.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/...490838e86c.jpg
...but was far more known for his efforts in another artistic genre. He has at least two things in common with this artist:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/...3e223734_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/...400a36f4_b.jpg
Fav plastic artists:
http://www.amazon.com/PLASTIC-ARTS-1...hor_title_full
Well, the last one is William Blake, but I've still no idea who your first example is...
Well... how about a photograph of our artist:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/...587fe687_b.jpg
Our artist, by the way, was French. I would assume that he is known... at least in reputation... by the majority of Lit Net members.
Is it Odilon Redon? (looks a bit like him, although i have only seen photos of him as a younger man)
The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist but I don't know any of his work.
EDIT: I have just checked his work and it is called Design With Fingerprints
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/s...Maugham-28.jpg
The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist
I don't know how you define "amateur artist" considering that by the same standards as Hugo, William Blake was but an "amateur poet". Hugo's drawings have fascinated artists in recent years with their strange elements of dark, brooding Romanticism, suggestions of Surrealism... and even abstraction. Hugo produced hundreds of ink drawings/paintings which have recently been afforded recognition in major exhibitions complete with catalogs:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/...c38aec63b3.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/...7e0ea9b69b.jpg
Not quite sure I agree with that, I'm afraid! Blake's poetry and painting are inseperable from each other, and I would suggest that there is nothing amateur about either of them. Even just taking the poetry purely on its own, there are few who would argue that Blake wasn't one of the leading figures of Western Romanticism. Hugo was a great writer, one of the best France has produced in her history, but the writings of Blake are certainly comparable, if not even superior.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
As for Brian, well, I recognize the subject - it's Somerset Maugham, but I've no idea who painted it, unless it's a self-portrait?
Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I meant amateur in that he didn't make his living from drawing and painting. I really don't know enough about his work to form a personal opinion on it.
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/s...Maugham-28.jpg
Somerset by Graham Sutherland?
http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/z...ulls/Mmmhm.jpg
Are we sure that this is an actual painting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Genocide
Blake's poetry and painting are inseperable from each other, and I would suggest that there is nothing amateur about either of them.
Obviously, as a Blake fanatic, I would not suggest that he was either an amateur poet or writer... although the reality is that he didn't make a living from his poetry... nor from his original art for that matter... but rather for his efforts as an engraver/designer. His paid labor often involved copying existing images or engraving imagery according to guidelines established by others in order to be used in illustration of books Edward Young's Night Thoughts and Thomas Gray's poetry. Of course the line between amateur and professional in the visual arts has grown increasingly blurred over time... while it has never been clear in literature. Just how many writers actually earned a living from writing? Certainly not Spenser, Keats, Herrick, Donne, Chaucer, or even Dante.
Even just taking the poetry purely on its own, there are few who would argue that Blake wasn't one of the leading figures of Western Romanticism. Hugo was a great writer, one of the best France has produced in her history, but the writings of Blake are certainly comparable, if not even superior.
Again... I would never suggest otherwise. Hugo is great... but I don't think he rivals Blake as a writer... and surely not in his artistic efforts.
Are we sure that this is an actual painting?
Yes... I could be wrong... but somehow I suspect this is not an artist one will find in any museum or major gallery.:shocked:
Oh, fair enough - I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you were sayin!Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I agree and I think it would be a good idea to stop this thread from drying up if we confine the artists and pictures to those that would normally be found museums and galleries, otherwise someone could post pictures of little Johnie's school painting of Noddy and Big Ears and others waste hours looking for it in the belief that might be by Juan Miro.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
This piece was at a gallery I went to a short while back. It wasn't THAT big of a gallery, but it wasn't that small.
I'll give you another one, then.
http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/z...heeeeeater.jpg
A Woman standing at the Virginal by Jan Vermeer.
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/s...ew_world-1.jpg