Care for, fascination with and study of museum collections in Wales. Sharing them in Wales and internationally. Tweets by Adam Webster ACR, FIIC. My views.
Cardiff, Wales
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Now online! An indenture made between Margaret Beaufort and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster Abbey, concerning the foundation and support for her chantry (Lansdowne MS 441, f. 3r)
#MedievalWomen
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ALT A decorated page from an indenture made by Margaret Beaufort, with a historiated initial 'T' with her arms.
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Four Pinks - with buds and foliage. Herman Saftleven, 1682. (British Museum)
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An unusual perspective, or is it? 📐🤔 Compare the painting to the bedroom’s floor plan (2*) and you’ll see that Van Gogh captured the room’s skewed angles exactly as they were.
* Floor plan of Van Gogh’s bedroom, the Yellow House in Arles (the white line highlights his room)
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We framed Cézanne’s Bathers today. The conventional 18th century gilded frame was replaced with a provincial 16th century Italian frame, the faded blue painted finish is similar to artist frames of the late 19th century. The composition is opened up and has more depth.
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Gargoyle of mama cat with her kitten on the roof of the castle in Pierrefonds, France.
The fortress was built between 1393 and 1407.
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A tiny watchful fragment in the chapter house at Durham Cathedral.
#StainedGlassSunday
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#VanGogh of the Day: Almond Blossom, February 1890. Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 92.4 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. @vangoghmuseum
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Road by an Airfield, Eric Ravilious, c.1942. The original artwork was sold at @ChristiesInc in 2008 and is now believed to be in a private collection. Like so much of his #WW2 output, it is an unfinished work and pencil outlines of planes can be seen behind the trees.
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'The Brass Kettle.' (1904) Édouard Manet was Fergusson's idol here, and the many studies and paintings he made throughout this period show his adoption of Manet's style – in terms of colouring, but also fluidity of paint and brushstrokes.
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A reminder that summer will eventually come: Still Life with Strawberries
Done between 1600 and 1625, Flemish, unknown artist. (Detroit Institute of Arts)
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The view from today's meeting today in Treorchy, the fabulous Station Cafe. It was a really sad day when it closed, I spent a lot of happy time photographing in there.
Expect more photos!
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"The vaporous figure in this unfinished painting has been assigned the date c. 1968 principally on the grounds of its correspondences with Man Getting up from a Chair, 1968."
Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné p 892
Painting: ‘Figure Opening Door’, c. 1968
