Henri Fantin-Latour

White Cup and Saucer, 1864. Oil on canvas, 19x 28 cm. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) French painter who was most famous for his flower paintings and still life work. He also did many group portraits of his fellow artists like Monet, Manet, Whistler etc. While those painters were more 'cutting edge' at the time, Henri was more of a salon painter; a traditionalist. He was influenced by the Symbolists. As his career progressed he grew to love lithography and produced many prints in his later years. He died of Lyme Disease in 1904 and is buried in the famous Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

Rhythm

Surface design place mat from Ikea, 2008.

Rhythmic Paper Sculpture by Emily Feth, 1947.

Fluid movement in varied periods or measures. A recurrence of featured elements or objects in the composition which recalls the main idea by repeating it in various ways. (Ralph L. Wickiser)

Babery

Also babewynnery. Derived from the Italian babuino (monkey). 14th-c. term for figures drawn in margins as decoration. (Rose Folsum)

Carl Larsson

Woman Lying on a Bench, 1913. Louvre, Paris.

When the Children Have Gone to Bed, 1895. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Cozy Corner from 'A Home' series, 1895. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

1853-1919. Carl Larsson was a Swedish painter, engraver, and illustrator. His watercolors of domestic life, subtly colored and full of detail, were painted for his book Ett Hem /A Home, 1899. (Brockhampton)

The Crowning of the Virgin, 1460

Complete triptych - oil on wood.

Detail of the weighing of the souls.

This painting is in the Hotel-Dieu in the town of Carpentras in the Vacluse region of Provence, France. This painting is on wood - from 1460 - and sits beside the altar in the Hotel-Dieu. This was originally housed in the cathedral of Saint-Siffrein, and saved from destruction during the French Revolution. The painter is unknown but could be Pierre Parrocel or Nicolas Mignard . "This painting depicts the crowing of the Virgin, St. Siffrein delivering a woman possessed, and St. Michael weighing souls." (Helena Attlee)

Mystery

Painting, 1946 by Francis Bacon. Oil and pastel on linen. 6'5" x 4'4". MOMA , New York.

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. " Francis Bacon

Freedmen

Here's an example of art during the era of Early Medieval Art.
The Scribe Ezra Rewriting the Sacred Records, from the codex Amiainus, Jarrow, early 8th century. Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence.

In ancient and medieval society, the class which had been freed from servitude as opposed to having been born free. (Gardner)