Olen niin suomalainen, että sattuu

AND what is your favorite piece of art?

Hi anon! I talked a little about what’s it like to be an art historian over here.

Now, choosing my favorite artwork is an impossible task. I have so, so many. Allow me to give you ten, and know that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I tried to stick with relatively lesser-known works (but of course I love the usual suspects from the 15th-20th centuries):

Captions:

Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555

Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 1859

Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, 1434-1436

Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture, Barberini Faun, c. 220 BCE

Quentin Matsys, The Ugly Duchess, 1513

Elin Danielson Gambogi, After Breakfast, 1890

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Thunderclouds on the Horizon, 1897

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 1620

Antonello da Messina, Virgin Annunciate, 1476

Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1470

Thank you anon!! (Also, ask me again tomorrow and I’ll give you a completely different list)

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Miksi karannutta koiraa kutsutaan?

Is the name of this language group Finno-Ugric or Ugro-Finnic?