#Walters Art Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Moonlit Scene, Houses at Night, Léon Bonvin, 1864

#art #art history #Léon Bonvin #night #night scene #nyctophilia #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #France #French art #19th century art #watercolor #watercolor on paper #Walters Art Museum

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

#animals in art #animal holiday #ancient art #Moche art #Peruvian art #South American art #Indigenous art #ceramics #blackware #effigy #stirrup vessel #seal sea lion #Walters Art Museum #International Day of the Seal #species ID

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Domenico Corvi (1721-1803) "Allegory of Painting" (1764) Oil on canvas Neoclassical Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

#paintings #art #artwork #allegorical painting #female portrait #domenico corvi #oil on canvas #fine art #neoclassical #neoclassicism #walters art museum #museum #art gallery #italian artist #portrait of a woman #cupid #putto #side profile #pretty #aesthetic #aesthetics #1700s #18th century

[empirearchives]

Napoleon’s mother had a watch made for her as she lost her eyesight that was designed for her to tell the time by touch instead of reading numbers.

According to the Walters Art Museum:

This unusual watch has no numbers, it belongs to a type called "montres à tact" or discrete watches. The clever design allows the time to be told by touch alone, feeling the four diamonds on the hour and the quarters, and the pearls that mark the remaining divisions of the twelve hours. The raised arrow, also in diamonds, contrasts with the smooth surrounding enamel, taking the place of watch hands. It was made for Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Napoleon’s mother, who lost her sight as she aged.

The case employs a process called guilloché, where subtle but kaleidoscopic effects are created through mechanical means. Geometric shapes are carved into metal by engine turning. The resulting patterns of fine lines are covered with transparent enamel, when light hits them it creates oscillating optic effects.

Pierre Benjamin Tavernier (Jeweler), Basile Charles Le Roy (Clockmaker), Early 1800s

#letizia Bonaparte #letizia #napoleonic era #napoleonic #watch #jewelry #jewellery #pretty #accessories #history #19th century #Walters art museum #french empire #first french empire #empire style #empire #france #Italy #fashion history #1800s

[escapismsworld]

Walters Art Museum

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #classical #academia #escapism #classic literature #books #books and libraries #architecture #interior #blue #white #museum #walters art museum #royalcore #cottage core #aesthetics

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A panel from a 21st Dynasty “yellow coffin” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Love the twin crocodile goddesses at lower left. I guess the twin bearded, snake-headed gods are both Osiris?

[A yellow coffin with various underworld figures painted in green and red, including the deceased flanked by a human goddess and a vulture-headed goddess, two enthroned, snake-headed gods, and two crocodile-headed goddesses standing back to back.]

#Ancient Egypt #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #Osiris #yellow coffin #coffin #Walters Art Museum

[local-boob]

de Flers, Robert. Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli. Illus. Alphonse Mucha, limited ed. Paris: Léon Gruel, 1897. source: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (not on view)

#books #alphonse mucha #rare books #princesse de tripoli #walters art museum #ilsee princesse de tripoli #leatherbound #leatherbound books #gilt #gilded

[internationalpictures]

Antonio Gai, Urania, Muse of Astronomy, 1725-69

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #walters art museum #baltimore #road trip

[kecobe]

Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI Domenico Antonio Vaccaro (Italian; 1678–1745) ca. 1720 Oil on copper The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

#Domenico Antonio Vaccaro #Vaccaro #Italian painters #Italian artists #Italian art #Italian Baroque #Italian paintings #Baroque art #religious art #18th-century art #18th-century Italian art #18th-century Italian artists #Walters Art Museum #allegory #allegories #Clement XI #1720s #popes #papacy #angels #portraits #Fame #laurels #trumpets #horns #religion #Catholic Church #papal tiara #columns

[sambarsky]

160.) My Baltimore Washington Monument sweater, also featuring the Walters Art Museum on the back. The monument and museum are made using a color of yarn by @neighborhoodfiberco called Mt. Vernon, the area of Baltimore where this landmarks are located. I had a vision of such a sweater using that yarn for many years before it finally came to be. Images have already been taken to make it a T-shirt someday, though I don’t know when. #sambarsky #sambarskysweaters #sambarskyknitter #knit #knitting #knitter #art #artist #sweater #washingtonmonument #washingtonmonumentbaltimore #mtvernon #mtvernonbaltimore #mountvernon #mountvernonbaltimore #waltersartmuseum #baltimore #monument

#sambarskyknitter #sambarsky #sambarskysweaters #knitting #knit #sweater #art #knitter #artist #handknit #washingtonmonument #washington monument #washingtonmonumentbaltimore #walters art museum #waltersartmuseum #mtvernon #mount vernon #mtvernonbaltimore #mount Vernon Baltimore #Baltimore

[lionofchaeronea]

Kamisuki (Combing Her Hair), Torii Kotondo, 1929

#art #art history #Asian art #Japan #Japanese art #East Asia #East Asian art #shin-hanga #woodblock print #Torii Kotondo #portrait #nude in art #bijin #bijinga #Showa period #Showa era #20th century art #Walters Art Museum

[arthistoryanimalia]

For both #WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay today, here are two ivory nestukes on display together at the The Walters Art Museum:

1. Skull and Toad

Ohara Mitsuhiro, Edo, early-mid 19th c.

2. Stylized Fukurasusume ("fat sparrow")

after Masanao of Kyoto, Edo, early 19th c.

#animals in art #animal holiday #museum visit #19th century art #Japanese art #East Asian art #Asian art #netsuke #ivory #carving #figurine #Walters Art Museum #World Frog Day #World Sparrow Day #frog #toad #sparrow #bird #birds in art

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) "The Woman of Samaria" (1859-1862) Marble Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

#sculptures #art #artwork #religious sculpture #female portrait #william henry rinehart #marble statue #fine art #walters art museum #museum #art gallery #american artist #christianity #drapery #1850s #1860s #mid 1800s #mid 19th century

[good-little-guys]

Anonymous Greek sculptor. Pig statuette. 5th century BC, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

#5th century #greek #sculpture #art #pig #pig statuette #walters art museum #little guys

[romegreeceart]

Roman mosaic depicting a partridge

* ooh, here we have it - a mortal enemy of tortoises :-) . At least if Claudius Aelianus is to be believed...

* Sousse, Tunisia

* 2nd/3rd century CE

* Walters Art Museum

source; Anonymous (Roman)., CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

photo by: © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons

#Roman #bird #partridge #Claudius Aelianus #mosaics #ancient #art #2nd century CE #3rd century CE #Sousse #Tunisia #Ad Meskens #Walters Art Museum

[thebaltimoreyoudontknow]

Momento Mori by Hans Leinberger

An image of a partially flayed skeleton, carved in a single piece of wood roughly six inches high. The figure holds a scroll and has a lizard on its head.

This is my favorite piece at the Walters Museum of Art. It is located in their Cabinet of Curiosities, which shows the evolution of these collections in three stages. While cabinets of curiosities and their history are problematic, this exhibit is a fun way for the Walters to display all the quirky parts of their collection. In the cabinet, you can also see whole pieces of Roman glass, 400-year-old watches, a stuffed alligator, and a few portraits by Rembrandt.

#maryland #charm city #the baltimore you don't know #baltimore #momento mori #remember that you will die #cabinet of curiosities #walters art museum #skeleton #sculpture #medieval art #Renaissance art #hans leinberger