"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, who was born on this day in 1832. It's interesting because the objects in the foreground do not appear in the mirror where you would expect them. #arthistory #OnThisDay #19thcentury #France #art

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the famous Italian painter, sculptor, poet and architect, not only known for his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, died on this day in 1564. #OTD #arthistory #Renaissance #16thcentury #Vatican

"The Bride of the Wind" is a painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka, who died on this day in 1980. The allegorical painting depicts his lover Alma Mahler in a peaceful sleep beside Kokoschka, who is awake and stares into space. #OTD #arthistory #20thcentury #Austria

I wish you all a Merry Christmas with the painting "Coming Home for Christmas" by Russian artist Evgeny Lushpin! #contemporaryart #MerryChristmas

As a sixteen-year-old academy student, German artist Andreas Achenbach painted the art academy in Düsseldorf in the former gallery building of the electoral palace in 1831 within two months from the window of his parents' apartment. #arthistory #architecturelove

"Troika in the snow" is a painting by artist Vladimir Orlovsky, who is considered one of the founders of Ukrainian Realist landscape painting. #arthistory #19thcentury #winterweather

Russian-French artist Marc Chagall created works in a wide range of artistic formats. His oil painting "The Fiddler" was an inspiration for the musical Fiddler on the Roof. #arthistory #20thCentury #cubism

I wish you all a happy new year with "The Rocket" by American artist Edward Middleton Manigault! #HappyNewYear2021 #artlove

Joseph Heydendahl was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School, who is best known for his winter landscapes. His paintings show motifs from Westphalia, the Lower Rhine, the Netherlands and Norway. #arthistory #19thCentury #winter

"The Two Rivers" is a painting by American painter and sculptor Peter Blume, whose works contained elements of folk art, Parisian Purism, Cubism and Surrealism. #arthistory #20thCentury #colorlove

John Singer Sargent, born on this day in 1856, is considered the greatest society portraitist of his day. In his painting "Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood" he depicts his friend Monet and his wife, when they painted together in Giverny, near Paris. #arthistory #OTD

Eileen Sorg is an artist based in the Pacific Northwest and is known for her magical, narrative drawings. She use traditional drawing techniques layering colored pencil over watercolor and ink on Arches hotpress watercolor paper. #contemporaryart

Wolf Huber was an Austro-German painter, draftsman and builder of the Renaissance. Today he is mainly valued for his light-handed, delicate landscape drawings, like "The Danube valley near Krems". #arthistory #16thCentury #landscapelove

"East Wind" is a painting by Théo van Rysselberghe, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century and was probably the most important Flemish painter of pointillism. #arthistory #19thcentury

"Two Squirrels", a watercolor painting by German artist Albrecht Dürer, is perfect for #SquirrelAppreciationDay. The fine brush strokes of the tail are fabulous! #arthistory #animalstudies

"Italienische Piazza" is a painting by Austrian artist Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, who is known for his mood paintings with a smooth colour scheme, especially landscapes, but also portraits. #arthistory #20thcentury #Italy

"The artist in his studio" is an oil painting by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. It is the only portrait of an artist in which Rembrandt presented himself in this form at work in front of an easel. #arthistory #GoldenAge

"Mother and Child by the Sea" is a painting by Norwegian artist Johan Christian Dahl. He studied at Art Academy in Copenhagen and went to Dresden in 1818, where he was friends with Caspar David Friedrich. #arthistory #ArtLovers

"The Hunters in the Snow" by Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder is regarded as the first large winter painting in Western painting. It shows a scene with a hunting party returning home, ice skaters and curlingers. #arthistory #Renaissance #WinterLove

"Autumn Moon" is a painting by American artist Scott Kahn, who thinks about his work as a visual diary, a record of his life, a reporting of the places and people he has encountered. #arthistory #contemporaryartist