King Island Drummers by James Adcox Postcard

The back of the postcard reads:

King Island Drummers
Artist: James Adcox
48" x 39", Oil on Canvas, 2005

There are no information the painting on the postcard nor the artist on the net.

King Island Drummers Postcard(PH Wish from Sarah Konichek)

Indian Miniature Painting Postcard

The postcard does not include the title and the artist of the painting, so I cannot give information regarding this postcard.

Indian Miniature Painting Postcard

However, I decided to add general information about Indian miniature painting. Miniatures paintings are intricate, colorful handmade illuminations or paintings, small in size, executed meticulously with delicate brushwork. The colors used in the miniature paintings were derived from minerals, vegetables, precious stones, indigo, conch shells, pure gold and silver.

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Miniatures paintings

Sistine Chapel, Ignudo 5 by Michelangelo Postcard

The postcards show the image of Ignudo 5, the head of the Ignudo at the upper right corner of the Drunkenness of Noah (above the Delphic Sibyl).
The Ignudi (singular: ignudo, from the Italian adjective nudo, meaning "naked") are the 20 athletic, nude male figures that Michelangelo painted at the four corners of the five smaller scenes of Creation. Because they were not relevant to the themes of the piece, Michelangelo's ignudi outraged several pontiffs.

Ignudo 5 Postcard

Most of the figures are surrounded by a huge garland of oak leaves, and clustered about them are thousands of acorns resembling the penis, or "prickhead", in Tuscan slang (testa di cazzo). The most likely reason for their abundance is that Pope Julius II, who commissioned the work, was of the della Rovere family: they function as, perhaps, Michelangelo's allusion to his patron.

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Sistine Chapel, The Ignudi

Houses at Auvers by van Gogh Postcard

The back of the postcard reads:

Houses at AuversVincent van Gogh. Dutch, 1853-1890Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Houses at Auvers Postcard

(PH Wish from Teresa Ostrander)

Houses at Auvers was painted in 1890, shortly after Vincent van Gogh (a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist) arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise (northwest of Paris) and he seemed to be on the mend. Indeed, Vincent's first letters to his brother Theo from Auvers-sur-Oise were cautiously optimistic. His health was good, and he found his room comfortable. The village had a picturesque appeal; even the new homes were "radiant and sunny and covered with flowers."

Unlike the writhing rhythms that characterized his landscape work at Saint-Rémy, Vincent van Gogh's first paintings at Auvers, such as Houses at Auvers, exhibited a new stability, seen in the strongly interlocked strokes of heavy pigment. Houses at Auvers shows the landscape of early summer. The view creates a flattened tapestry of shapes in which the tiled and thatched roofs of the houses form a mesmerizing patchwork of color.

Additional Information:75.6 x 61.9 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/8 in.)Oil on CanvasLandscapeOn view in the: Sidney and Esther Rabb Gallery (European Art 1870–1900), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SOURCE:Vincent van Gogh Final Paintings

Grande Place Postcard

The back of the postcard reads:

Bruxelles - BrusselGrande PlaceGrote Markt

Unfortunately the postcard also did not include the name of the artist. The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town Hall and the Bread House (Dutch: Broodhuis, French: Maison du Roi).

Grande Place Painting Postcard(PH Wish from Richard Young)

The Grand Place was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998.

SOURCE:
Grand Place Wikipedia Entry