Friday, October 23, 2026

Autumn

There's no exact match for today on the calendar, so here's an autumn-themed selection instead.

Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

Théodore Rousseau

Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau was a French painter of the Barbizon School.

Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.

George Price Boyce

George Price Boyce was a British watercolour painter of landscapes and vernacular architecture in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He was a patron and friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Autumn (Wheat Harvest), by Charles Michel Campion

Autumn (Wheat Harvest)

Charles Michel Campion · 1768

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