#todays classic

Today’s Classic: La femme damneé (The cursed woman) by Nicolas Octave Tassaert (1859)

Today’s Classic: Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel (1868)

Today’s Classic: Hexe by Karl Cauer (1874)

Today’s Classic: Melancholy I by Albrecht Dürer (1514)

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Today’s Classic: Book Readers in Art (Dedicated to bookporn,tilly-and-her-books,bookstodevour, and all the bookworms around tumblr!)

1. Franz Eybl’s ‘Girl Reading’ (1850)

2. William Adolphe Bouguereau’s  'The Story Book’ (1877)

3. Charles Edward Perugini’s ‘Girl Reading’ (1878)

4. Atilio Baccani’s 'Lady Reading a Book’ (1876)

5. Sir John Lavery’s 'The Red Book’ (1892)

6. Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s  'Young Girl Reading’ (1770)

7. Charles Amable Lenoir’s 'To the Return of Times Lost’ (19th Century)

Today’s Classic: The Divine Commedy illustrated by Francesco Scaramuzza (1803-1886)

Today’s Classic Night and her daughter Sleep By Mary L. Macomber (1902)

Today’s Classic: First version Illustrations to The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edmund Sullivan (1869-1933)

Today’s Classic: Lucifer, the Inferno and the Judgement Day

1. By Jan Van Eyck (1441)

2. By Limourg Brothers (1420)

3. By Gericht Memling (1671)

4. By Giovanni da Modena (1410)

5. By Psautier de Winchester (1161)

6. By Hyeronimus Bosch (1516)