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Mathew Brady Studio (active 1844-1894)
G. W. M. Nutt and Minnie Warren
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-1870
National Portrait Gallery, Washington D. C.
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #photography #MathewBradyStudio
📷 & ➡️ npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG…

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A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 7,5 cm, W: 7,4 cm
French or possibly German (Lower Rhine, Cologne)
c. 1320-30
Victoria and Albert Museum, London #chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106326/a…

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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #ChessmenAndChessSets #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
➡️ digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
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Lucas Kilian
Xerses Philomater (aka Xerxes philosophus aka Xerses phus)
Engraving
1616
Detail from:
G. Selenus: Das Schach- oder König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616; Titel page of Part I
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
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Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
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#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
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The original painting by Isidor Kaufmann (1853–1921) was sold in an auction 2014. Kaufmann made several depictions of #chess players. flickr.com/photos/gandalf… dartesro.sk/?act=dielo-kat… #ChessArt #ChessInVisualArts



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im looking for research grants atm bc as a grad student i can only self-fund so many trips to chess tourneys but! during my search i was on the Blavatnik Archives website & found a 20th cent. postcard with 2 Jewish men playing chess published by Phönix art publishers in Berlin

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Michael Wolgemut or Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshops of)
Xerses Phus
Woodcut
74 mm × 55 mm
Originally part of the Liber Chronicarum, Nürnberg 1493
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (@rijksmuseum)
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #VisualArts #woodcut #XersesPhus #Schedel1493Latin

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Lucia Moholy (1894-1989)
Chess table by #HeinzNösselt (1900-1950) with #chessmen by #JosefHartwig (1880-1955)
Photography
1924
Private collection
#photography #LuciaMoholy #ChessTable #ChessmenAndChessSets #BauhausChessSet
📷 & ➡️ broehan-museum.de/ausstellung/lu…

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Illustration from:
Jacobus de Cessolis:
De ludo scacchorum
Illuminated manuscript
15th century
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain; Vitr/25/6; f. 6r
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #JacobusDeCessolis
➡️ bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/deta…

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Unknown artist
Prince and lady playing #chess on a rooftop while a bed is prepared in a room below
Drawing
25.2 x 13.7 cm
18th century (India, Rajput Style, Kota School)
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, USA
#VisibleArts #drawing #IndianArt
📷 @harvartmuseums

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Shōgi chess board, #chess pieces and spring flowers in blue-and-white porcelain pot
21 x 18.6 cm
Print, surimono
1822
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, USA
#shōgi #ChessSet #chessmen #GraphicArts #KatsushikaHokusai
📷 @harvartmuseums

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@ACCArtBooks @boev @BatsfordBooks @Dt_Kunstverlag @dumontverlag @Harvard_Press @HatjeCantz @HHPublishing @ImhofVerlag @ABRAMSbooks Looking for experts (cf.🧵)? Perhaps the renowned art historian #NataschaNiemeyerWasserer is a candidate. References 👇
#chess #ChessInVisualArts #ExhibitionCatalogue #ChessLiterature
SZ-Serie: Hüter der Geschichte: Zwischen Schach und Kandinsky
via @SZ sz.de/1.5502134

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According to #Ferlito1993 this is the earliest painted representation of a game of chess in the history of art.
➡️ Gianfelice Ferlito: The first painting of a chess game is in Sicily. The Chess Collector 3 (1993), 24–25.
#ChessInVisualArts #chess #ChessPlayer #CappellaPalatina

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Unknown artist
A game of chess
Fresco; tempera on a wooden base covered with plaster
Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Italy
c. 1143
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #fresco #tempera #CappellaPalatina #MiddleAges #12thCentury #IslamicArt
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The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns)
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
Starring Ernst Wilhelm Borchert (👇), Hildegard Knef, A. Paulsen, E. Sellmer
Germany, 1946
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #film #WolfgangStaudte #TheMurderersAreAmongUs1946

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Francis Cotes (1726-1770)
Portrait of William and Penelope Welby playing chess
135 x 152 cm
Oil on canvas
1769
@LouvreAbuDhabi
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #painting #FrancisCotes #WomenInChess
➡️ louvreabudhabi.ae/Explore/highli…
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Burton Brothers (Photography studio; Dunedin, New Zealand)
The chess tournament, Garrison Hall, Dunedin
Composite photography
1883
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
#chess #VisualArts #photography #BurtonBrothers

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Lubin Baugin (1610/12–1663)
The five senses (Still life with chessboard)
Oil on wood
55 x 73 cm
1663
Musée du Louvre, Paris
#chess #chessboard #VisualArts #painting #LubinBaugin #ChessAndMusic

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Unknown artist
Chess players
Panel of civil stained glass from the Hôtel de la Bessée in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
54.2 x 54 cm
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Musée de Cluny, Paris
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #StainedGlas #15thCentury
📷 @museecluny