Daniela Jacques

19/03/2024

19/03/2024

19/03/2024

Victorian carriage pulled by two shire horses racing along a dirt road at dusk with sherlock holmes at the reigns. DALL-E 2

19/03/2024

Oil painting of River Thames in spring with a ferryman taking a priest in a wooden boat DALLE-2

19/03/2024

London Victorian slum street in 1700 near Newgate gaol with a begged in rags a wooden peg for a leg and no teeth. DALL-E2

19/03/2024

Circus brown bear in top hat and tutu juggling pineapples

https://huggingface.co/spaces/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5

10/04/2023

Easter at the Overlook hotel.

1926 Easter celebration with some very happy children!

25/03/2023

‘The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all details of daily life.’ – William Morris was born on this day 1834.

Did you know that this is William Morris's only completed oil painting? The inspiration behind the artwork was Thomas Malory’s 'Morte d'Arthur' (The Death of Arthur), which describes the legendary court of King Arthur, with Guinevere's love for Sir Lancelot one of its central themes. 🛡️ ❤️

In this portrait, the English embroiderer Jane Burden is depicted as the Irish princess Iseult mourning her lover Tristram's exile from the court of King Mark. It represents a powerful expression of the intense medieval style dominant in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's circle in the late 1850s, with its emphasis on pattern and historical detail. In 1859, a year after this painting was completed, Burden and Morris would marry.

🖼️ William Morris, La Belle Iseult, 1858. Tate Collection. Currently on display at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust.

16/07/2022

When you walk into a room and forget why you went in.... 😕

Rembrandt was born in 1606. This portrait, made when Rembrandt was 28 years old, was created soon after he arrived in Amsterdam to set up his own studio. The oval shape was conventional in the city at that time, but the energetic and creative way of applying paint to the canvas represents a significant change in Rembrandt’s style from his more smoothly painted portraits of only a year or two earlier.

The optical illusion created here is a powerful one. Rembrandt has used contrasts between light and dark – for example, the blacks and whites of the sitter’s clothes, the highlights on her nose and the heavy shadow under her chin – to create a highly convincing three-dimensional effect. The old lady’s head seems to project forward out of the picture. It isn’t only light effects that make this portrait seem so lifelike. Rembrandt has evoked the old lady’s blotched, blemished, and sagging skin using different textures and thicknesses of paint. The furrows and shadows, the wrinkles and pudginess make her face seem almost tangible. He did this with a lively brush, applying the paint fluidly with short and curving strokes as well as dabs and stipples.
Long thought to be a portrait of Rembrandt’s grandmother, the sitter has now been identified as Aechje Claesdr, widow of the Rotterdam brewer Jan Pesser, who died in 1619. Take a closer look at Rembrandt's work on our website: https://bit.ly/2Jm0aOX

23/04/2022

Happy !

To mark the occasion, we are taking a closer look at ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ by Paolo Uc***lo; one of the many paintings in our collection that tells the story of the Saint. The taming and slaying of the dragon by Saint George is one of the most fantastic saints‘ legends of the Middle Ages and was well known all over Europe before Saint George was adopted as the patron saint of England.

Everything about the picture, from the strange spiralling cloud to the odd landscape, makes this a scene from fantasy. Uc***lo has compressed two parts of the story into one distinctly strange picture, with Saint George slaying the dragon by plunging his spear into its oddly triangular body while the princess holds a leash around its neck.

We can also see Uc***lo’s fascination with single point perspective, used to give the image more depth. However he hasn’t quite mastered it yet as the geometric patches of greenery are not quite in line with the stone on the ground.

You can visit Paolo Uc***lo’s ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ in Room 53 or learn more about its fascinating history here: https://bit.ly/3eBoJ9r

21/04/2022

New branding leave residents underwhelmed in Hereford. Is spinning the D letter 180 degrees creative genius? 🤨

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/20059703.spelling-mistake-herefordshire-tries-attract-tourists/

THE new branding of a Herefordshire town has been labelled as a gimmick and designers told it looks like there is a spelling mistake.