Posts tagged 18th century
Unknown artist
“The king’s bath made with the blood of the innocents”, from The Vessels of Hermes
ca. 1700
(via publicdomainreview.org)
Pietro Cipriani
Dancing Faun
1722-24
(in “The Italian Showcase” @ the Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) - Hotei Watching Mice Sumo
“Hotei (in Chinese, Budai, literally ‘cloth bag’), a portly monk who shoulders a large sack on a pole, made his first appearance in a tenth-century Chinese text and soon became a favored subject for Zen art … This painting of Hotei watching mice engaged in sumo wrestling is another example of Hakuin’s idiosyncratic vision of the wandering monk. Hakuin’s inscription is nestled at the top right: ‘This is where mice do sumo.’”
- From The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin @ the New Orleans Museum of Art
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - Afflicted with Constipation (1771–83), in “Messerschmidt” @ the Musée du Louvre (via theartnewspaper)
Henri Stresor - The Oyster Eater, mid 18th c. (@ artdaily)
