Reader Poll!
Nov. 10th, 2008 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olde_fashionedI've been thinking about this for some time. Would anyone be interested in a sort of "Painting of the Week" series on my blog? I come across a lot of artwork while browsing for icon fodder that other people might enjoy looking at, and it might be fun to post a painting a week, or at least I think so. :-)
I'm principally interested in the costumes and clothing depicted in the paintings, myself, so obviously this would mean things more akin to Gainsborough rather than Picasso. ;-P But I do enjoy discovering lesser-known historical artists, so I would try to do that as well.
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Date: 2008-11-12 09:10 am (UTC)Well that explains it, then. I suppose it was rather foolish of me to presume your classical education and speaking Latin would have gone hand-in-hand with a rudimentary knowledge of art. I guess I learned that lesson!
I'm quite new to the whole art thing myself, so I fear I don't know enough to be actually writing about any paintings, just sharing them. ;-) I wish there was a site one could look up famous paintings (and not so famous) to learn more about them. I was reading the Wiki article about the David painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps the other day. I had no idea there were inscriptions in the rocks at the bottom left corner listing the others who crossed the Alps, Hannibal and Charlemagne. :-D