c.1190-1205 / Stained glass with silver stain, vitreous paint /
28 1/8” diameter / Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Previous February 21 posts:
February 21~ African-American visual artists
Rea Irvin & The New Yorker
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/21~
1870 / Oil on canvas / 42 9/10”x34 1/5” / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
The premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa The Barber of Seville on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina in Rome was a verifiable disaster! …
http://www.interlude.hk/front/rossini-barber-sevillepremiered-today-1816/
On February 19, 1856 Hamilton Lanphere Smith patented the tintype photographic process.
1856-1900 / Collodion and silver on iron with lacquer / 3 1/2”x2 1/2” /
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Previous February 19 posts:
February 19~ African-American visual artists
Adelina Patti: Born February 19, 1843
Nelle Harper Lee: April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/19~
The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Basilica became popular with Florentines as a place of worship and patronage and it became customary for greatly honoured Florentines to be buried or commemorated there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Croce,_Florence#Funerary_monumentsHe is surrounded by three allegorical statues representing…Painting (by Giovan Battista Lorenzi), Sculpture (by Valerio Cioli) and Architecture (by Giovan Battista Lorenzi) all of three which are shown in mourning.
https://www.visitflorence.com/florence-churches/santa-croce.htmlMichelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer~ https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/michelangelo/exhibition-object-highlights
The Sonnets of Michelangelo~ https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-sonnets-of-michelangelo-1904-edition/
See also: https://www.santacroceopera.it/en/catalogue-of-works/michelangelo-buonarroti-monumental-tomb-vasari/
1912 / Oil on canvas / 57 7/8”x35 1/8” / Philadelphia Museum of Art
“The Armory Show took place from February 17 to March 15, 1913 at the 69th Regiment Armory on
Lexington Avenue and 25th Street, and in just less than a month it changed the way Americans thought about modern art. It has been called the most important exhibition ever held in the United States.“ https://www.tronviggroup.com/the-armory-show-at-100-website/
~ 1913 Armory Show: The Story in Primary Sources
~ List of women artists in the Armory Show
~ Armory Show 1913 Catalog
Previous February 17 posts:
February 17~ African-American visual artists
February 17~
Madama Butterfly: First Performance February 17, 1904
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/17~
1947 / 6-color lithograph, Edition of 50 / Image: 19 7/16”x12 9/16” / Various collections, including MoMA, NYC
1787 / Oil on canvas / 51”x77 1/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Previous February 15 posts:
February 15~ African-American visual artists
February 15~
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/15~
1575 / Oil on canvas / 72 1/4”x51” / Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa
Valentine’s Day~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
Be My Valentine~ https://www.si.edu/spotlight/valentines
The Heart in Art~ http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-heart-in-art/
Previous February 14 posts:
February 14~ African-American visual artists
Renée Fleming: Born February 14, 1959
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/14~
“Lincoln the Railsplitter” by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) 84.5” by 44.5” Oil on canvasIn 1962, Lincoln First Federal Savings & Loan Assn in WA commissioned this painting for the lobby of their headquarters in Spokane. Rockwell completed it in 1965 and it was unveiled on November 4th of that year. After the bank merged with Washington Mutual Savings Bank, the painting was moved to Seattle, no longer on public display; in the early 1990s it was sold to Texas businessman H. Ross Perot. In 2006, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, purchased it in a sale at Christie’s Auction House, and “Lincoln the Railsplitter” was once again available to the public.
“Artworks of Lincoln were produced for many reasons—for news, politics, sale, and commemoration—and in a variety of media, such as prints, paintings, sculptures, and photographs.”
http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/lincoln/introduction/picturing-lincoln“Scholars estimate that Lincoln sat for 33 photographers and 127 portraits in his lifetime…”
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1876750_1840177,00.html“The statue of President Abraham Lincoln [in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol] depicts him with a serious, contemplative expression. Sculpted by the first female artist commissioned to create a work of art for the United States government.”
https://www.aoc.gov/art/other-statues/abraham-lincoln-statue“Iconic Abraham Lincoln portraits”
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/iconic-abraham-lincoln-portraits/
1880 / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 14 3/4”x9 7/8” / Various, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kenkokukinen-no-Hi, the “complicated and controversial” National Foundation Day, is February 11
Previous February 11 posts:
February 11~ African-American visual artists
Thomas Edison: Born February 11, 1847
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/11~
The Misty Miss Christy 