Feel Art Again: Review Session

Last Wednesday was the five-month anniversary of the first 'Feel Art Again' post on the mental_floss blog. In the past five months, we've presented over 40 different artists and paintings. So today, with the debut of our new 'Feel Art Again' banner, is a good day to take a look back.

September 2007

• "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich
• "The Love Letter" and "Love Letters" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

October 2007

• "Self-Portrait at 26" by Albrecht Dürer
• "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci
• "The Three Graces" by Sanzio Raffaello (Raphael)
• "La persistencia de la memoria" ("The Persistence of Memory") by Salvador Dali
• "Queen Marie-Antoinette and Her Children" by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
• "The Champion Single Sculls" by Thomas Eakins
• "Portrait of Isabella of Portugal" by Vecellio Tiziano (Titian)
• "First Communion" by Pablo Picasso
• "Alfred Sisley and His Wife" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  

November 2007

• "Allegory of the Catholic Faith" by Johannes Vermeer
• "An Election Entertainment" by William Hogarth
• "Surrender of Lord Cornwallis" by John Trumbull
• "A Lady in a Fur Wrap" by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
• "The Child's Bath" by Mary Cassatt
• November Artists: Part 1, including Giulio Romano, Henri Matisse, Alton Tobey, Norman Rockwell, Paul Signac, and Auguste Rodin
• November Artists: Part 2, including Camille Pissarro, René Magritte, Pavel Korin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Clyfford Still

December 2007

• "Madame Récamier" by Jacques-Louis David
• "The Feast of St. Nicholas" by Jan Steen
• "Skrik" ("The Scream) by Edvard Munch
• "The Last Day of Pompeii" by Karl Briullov
• "The Dance Class" by Edgar Degas
• "The Triumph of Galatea" by Jean-Baptiste van Loo

January 2008

• "Adoration of the Wise Men" by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
• "Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles VII" by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• "Unconscious Rivals" and "The Roses of Heliogabalus" by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• "Iris Flowers and Grasshopper" by Hokusai and "Irises" by Vincent van Gogh
• "The Cornfield" by John Constable and "The Beeches" by Asher B. Durand
• "Lark" by Pál Szinyei-Merse
• "The Boyarynia Morozova" by Vasily Surikov
• "In a Shoreham Garden" by Samuel Palmer
• "An Enchanted Cellar with Animals" by Cornelis Saftleven

February 2008

• "The Bookworm" by Carl Spitzweg
• "A Virgin" by Abbott Handerson Thayer
• Art Theft special post, including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh
• "A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros" by Adolphe William Bouguereau
• "Lady Lilith" by Gabriel Dante Charles Rossetti (Dante Rossetti)
• "Un dimanche après-midi à l'ÃŽle de la Grande Jatte" ("A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte") by Georges-Pierre Seurat (George Seurat)
• "A View of Tantallon Castle" by Alexander Nasmyth
• "Amor Vincit Omnia" ("Love Conquers All") by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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'Feel Art Again' appears every Tuesday and Thursday.