The Met: Greek and Roman Art

2021-11-22 19:55:04

Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art @bm_ancient #brooklynmuseum #followart

Xerses phus

2021-11-22 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 52/n
#ChessmenChessSets 2/n
Man Ray
Juliet Browner with Man Ray's chess set
Photography
1945
#chess #ChessSet #VisualArts #photography #ManRay #ManRay1945

Walter Crist, PhD

2021-11-21 14:13:34

The OI at U Chicago has some great examples of ancient games! a beautifully preserved mehen, a very fancy ivory and gold 58 holes, and two nice 20 Squares games.

🔴 AndegemoN ⚪️ Art ♟

2021-10-27 14:05:56

🌺 - First Step for New Start - 🎍

#BeauxArts #Illustration #Exposition #Voyage
#Philosophie #Méditation #Estampe #Vietnam 🇻🇳

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-11-17 12:52:23

On December 31st, 1925, the Kronen-Zeitung reported about the women's chess tournament in Vienna. #Chess

Cercle Andegemon👹

2019-02-16 15:11:09

Quand les joueurs y consacrent le temps nécessaire, le jeu devient un véritable art de vivre, une source de lumière et de chaleur.

🎨 Johannes Hermanus van der Heijden (1825-1907) 🇳🇱
- Soirée échecs -

#Andegemon #Echecs #BonJeuBonPlaisir
#ChessArt #Peinture #AndegemonArt #Art

John McCafferty

2021-11-13 17:13:31

13 Nov: feast of Diego or Didacus of Alcalá, Franciscan missionary in the Canaries #otd . He died on 12 Nov 1463.

This 16th century automaton is possibly the one made by Juanelo Turriano at the court of Charles V in the likeness of the saint.

(Smithsonian Museum)

QuotiChess

2021-11-12 09:37:20

Vous pensez souvent à vos problèmes ?
Vous êtes perdus dans vos pensées ?
"Le problème d'échecs", huile sur toile de Muriel Boulton de 1906, visible au musée des beaux-arts du Canada à Ottawa, vous aidera à panser vos maux.
Réfléchir avant d'agir !
#EchecsEtArts

Xerses phus

2021-11-12 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 48/n
The Touch
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, …
1971
Sweden, USA
#chess #VisualArts #film #BergmanIngmar #IngmarBergman #Bergman1971 #TheTouch

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-11-11 10:17:03

A 1965 painting by Russian artist Tatiana Mikhailovna Marchenko.

maxeuwecentrum

2021-11-09 11:46:00

Het @Maxeuwecentrum bestaat 35 jaar! Op 8 november 1986 was de feestelijke opening aan de Paleisstraat 1 in #Amsterdam. Ook weduwe Caro Euwe-Bergman en burgemeester Van Thijn waren aanwezig. Op 13-12-1991 volgde de verhuizing naar het Max Euweplein 30a, onze huidige locatie.

Jonathan Manley

2021-11-09 07:00:21

Gyula Breyer, who influenced generations of chess players, died on this day in 1921 aged 28. kingpinchess.net/2017/11/gyula-…

Julia

2021-11-08 18:48:48

The Game Time! exhibit at @museumofplay highlights some inspiration from Candy Land-- the sweet & colorful race game designed by Eleanor Abbott in 1948.

Xerses phus

2021-11-08 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 46/n
Karl Swoboda
Johann Friedrich I. in captivity playing chess while hearing his death sentence
Oil on canvas
1858
Private collection
Cf. dorotheum.com/de/l/5493402/
#chess #VisualArts #painting #KarlSwoboda #Swoboda1858 #Hanfried

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-11-07 15:11:02

The house Czerningasse 7a in Vienna where in apartment No. 6 Josef Krejcik died on January 4th, 1957.

Incunabula

2021-11-07 06:29:59

Kaladlit Okalluktualliait - edited by Hinrich Rink & printed by Lars Møller at Godthåb in Greenland in 1859-63.

These 4 volumes of Greenlandic folktales, illustrated with remarkable woodcuts by an Inuit artist, are amongst the rarest & most extraordinary of exotic imprints. 1/

Xerses phus

2021-11-05 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 45/n
Franz von Defregger
A chess game
Oil on canvas
c. 1874
Private collection
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #FranzVonDefregger #DefreggerFranzVon #Defregger1874
Cf. tiroler-landesmuseen.at/ausstellung/de…

Xerses phus

2021-11-04 05:00:00

#ChessAndPolitics 3/n
📷 via @HowardStaunton
#chess #politics #BorisJohnson #ChessInVisualArts #VisualArts #cartoon

Xerses phus

2021-10-29 04:05:00

#ChessInVisualArts 42a/n
Follower of Caravaggio
Chess players
Oil on canvas
17th century
Private collection
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #Caravaggio #CaravaggioFollower
Cf. dorotheum.com/en/l/5137217/

Martin Hahn

2021-11-02 21:27:15

Ausbildungen und Berufe starker Schachmeister

(aus der Caissa / März 1951)

Xerses phus

2021-11-03 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 44/n
Lucky Luke
#chess #VisualArts #design #comics #film #puzzle #LuckyLuke

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-11-02 09:33:59

This marvelous chess set is from Russia, 1760-1770s; made of bone, wood and horn by Osip Dudin.

Knigths and Rooks are otherwordly... and the pieces' faded paint makes the whole set almost eerie...

The State Hermitage Museum

Locus Ludi

2021-11-01 22:36:28

Just out! V. Dasen/M. Vespa eds, Play and Games in Classical Antiquity: Definition, Transmission, Reception, Liège, Jeu/Spiel/Play 2, 2021, 518 p. presses.uliege.be/jcms/c_23369/j…
#ERC_Research @AssociacaoLudus @ludocorpus @OMChildhood @LiegeGameLab @CamClassics @Twhittermarsh @SonyaNevin

John McCafferty

2021-11-02 11:42:14

Doll c. 1676

(Rijksmuseum)

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-11-01 07:43:11

This chess piece is King, dated 8th–10th century, from Western Islamic Lands, made of Jet (or lignite?)

A wonderful piece, following the throne-like shape of early Islamic abstraction, with very rich decorative circle motifs.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-11-01 07:38:40

This chess piece is a King, circa 11th–12th century, attributed to Iran, probably Nishapur, made of terracotta.

A superb piece. Decorated with grooves and stylized lines rhater than the usual circular patterns.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Xerses phus

2021-11-01 05:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 43/n
Christian Gottlieb Geyser (attr.)
Johann Friedrich I. in captivity playing chess while hearing his death sentence
Etching
from: J. M. Schröckh: Allgemeine Weltgeschichte für Kinder, Vol. III, Leipzig 1786, after p. 514
#chess #VisualArts #etching #Hanfried

Dorsa Amir

2021-10-31 14:47:04

My new favorite historical artifact is this 1,000 year old, 14-sided die from Korea with instructions for a drinking game 🎲

Known as a juryeonggu (주령구, lit. “liquor command tool”), each side of the die has an action, like “drink two cups” or “dance without music”.

Howard Staunton

2021-10-29 13:01:46

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

Xerses phus

2021-10-29 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 42/n
Follower of Caravaggio
Chess players
Oil on canvas
1610s
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #Caravaggio #CaravaggioFollower
Cf. gallerieaccademia.it/en/chess-playe…

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-10-28 10:51:46

The grave of Hugo Fähndrich (1851-1930) on Vienna's new Jewish cemetery. The grave has no tombstone. The rounded one in the center of the picture belongs to the next row, but helps to identify Fähndrich's resting place in front of it. #Chess

Loboarda

2021-10-28 03:24:28

Murió el 12 de agosto de 1900 en Nueva York, dejando al ajedrez un generoso legado. Se registra en los textos que murió “en la miseria”. Habría que cuestionarse qué es morir en la miseria, cuando se ha conseguido todo lo propuesto en la vida. La esencia de los genios!

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-10-27 18:51:48

The death certificate of chess master Hugo Fähndrich who died of arteriosclerosis on July 2nd, 1930 at 8 p.m. in the Lainz nursing home in Vienna (the date of death on Wikipedia is wrong). Fähndrich was one of Schlechter's seconds during his 1910 match against Lasker. #Chess

Douglas Griffin

2021-10-27 18:21:28

The famous violinist, David Oistrakh (b. 1908, Odessa; d. Amsterdam, 1974), pictured at home in Moscow in 1958. Like Prokofiev, he was an avid #chess fan; the two played a match in 1937.
(📷D. Sholomovich, Novosti Press.)