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Alyssa Monks Painter

Alyssa’s paintings have been the subject of many exhibitions including ‘Intimacy’ at Kunst Museum in Ahlen, Germany and ‘Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009’ at the National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York.

Alyssa primarily focusses on the human figure, portraying them in intimate, large format compositions. I find her underwater portraits most inspiring, they are so detailed, you’d swear they were photographs!

See more of her work on her website.

Design for an enormous crossbow, 1500, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: ink,paper

— Vincent van Gogh (via oiseauperdu)

— Robert Henri, born on this day in 1865, in The Art Spirit.  (via whitneymuseum)

— Giorgio Vasari on Leonardo Da Vinci from Lives of the Artists

〰️ “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo | By Pierre Julien and other artists.

‘Lament for Icarus’ - Herbert James Draper

“The Rose Girl” (detail) - Émile Vernon

‘An Illicit Letter’ (detail) - Vittorio Reggianini

Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625

‘Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg’ (detail) - Vittorio Matteo Corcos

Detail from a portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German, 1805-1873

Beatrice, Thomas Francis Dicksee

Rhapsody In Blue —-Blue dresses in art (European art 1600s-1800s).