April 2013
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Parmigianino! At last!
As a fan of both Parmigianino and Joshua Reynolds, today’s discovery of this long-lost red-chalk drawing is especially exciting.
It’s a sketch for his famous The Madonna of the Long Neck (1535-40, currently at the Uffizi in Florence), i.e. the painting that everyone gets in their survey class to illustrate the tenets of Mannerism. The drawing itself is a series of studies, not really...
January 2013
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Supposedly mind-blowing Matisse exhibition on view... →
I haven’t seen it, but I believe it when they say that it’s stunning.
On view until March 17.
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November 2012
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WatchSotheby’s specialist Tobias Meyer describes Rothko’s works as giving you an “overwhelming feeling of going into another space.” It’s totally true, and it’s the main reason why I love his canvases so much.
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Rothko Goes For Tons at Sotheby's →
No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) by Mark Rothko sold for over $75 million last Tuesday at Sotheby’s. It’s a beautiful piece.
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Time-Traveling Sleeves
Jacopo Pontormo (maybe Bronzino?), Portrait of a Woman in Red, 1532-35. Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.
I remember this painting from my undergrad survey class (or maybe it was Italian Renaissance?), mainly because we had spent the better part of two hours looking at mainly Florentine portraits in profile from the 1400s, which as great as they are, can get a bit monotonous (yes, women...
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Exhibition review written by yours truly: "Pride... →
Click above for the review of the exhibition I linked to a couple of weeks ago currently on display at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
October 2012
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New Exhibition: Pride and Prejudice, Female... →
This new exhibition is a closer look at female artists in the eighteenth (and 19th!) century in both France and Sweden. It’s actually fairly large, involving paintings, drawings, prints, and pastels. Worth seeing if you’re in the Stockholm area.
27 September 2012–20 January 2013 at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Adjoining lecture: Thursday 17 January, 6 pm
Royalists and...
August 2012
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The Exclusive Life of a Jet-Setting Painting →
A bit of insight into what it’s like for popular paintings to travel (in this case, Hoppner’s Morning Sun).
July 2012
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WatchVideo of the bidding on Joachim Wtewael’s Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan. It’s a really lovely, tiny piece that I heard people saying that it was one of his finest. The estimate was £2-4 million pounds, but it went a bit higher and ended up going for over £4.5 million. According to Christie’s website, this was the highest price fetched for a work by this artist at auction.
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June 2012
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Works on paper enthusiasts, keep this exhibition... →
Triumphal entries! Power-hungry emperors and splendor-draped monarchs! All engraved and preserved for posterity. Definitely worth checking out (or buying the catalogue, if there is one).
It’s up from 21 October 2012 to 16 June 2013, so it has a good, long run. No excuse to miss it!
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Exhibition on 18th-century Something at the MFA... →
Due to the bare bones description of this exhibition on the MFA’s website, there’s not much I can tell you about this besides the fact that it predominantly features works by Tiepolo and his contemporaries. Not sure about the works that are included, but I’m sure it’ll be fabulous. Check it out if you’re in the Boston area.
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Hopper Exhibition in Madrid (12/6-16/9) →
Go! Here’s the reason you’ve been waiting for to take that trip to Spain!
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“‘[S]ometimes he would take weeks over a single foot,’ biographer...”
– From the J. Paul Getty Museum’s website
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Carlo Dolci: Sweet, Sweet Anguish
St. Catherine of Siena, 1665-70. Dulwich Picture Gallery, UK. Madonna, undated. Statens Museum for Kunst, DK.
Carlo Dolci (1616-1687) was a Florentine baroque painter best known for his religious devotional pieces, mainly those that feature Christ or the Madonna. I first came across his work in Colnaghi’s annual catalogue, and, once I was fortunate enough to see the pictures in person, I...
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Dulwich in Detail
The long awaited Dulwich post is here! I was in the UK last November and decided that it was high time to visit Dulwich Picture Gallery, which is apparently the oldest public art gallery in the UK. The building was designed by Sir John Soane of Soane Museum fame, but my friends and I joke that it resembles a prison.
Once inside, though, you’re instantly confronted with a myriad of...
May 2012
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"'New' Barnes? No Thanks -- Thoughts on a Cultural... →
Things like this make me extremely sad, although now I really want to watch The Art of the Steal.
April 2012
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March 2012
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The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) kicks off... →
So if you’re in the Netherlands and in the market for some fabulous Old Master paintings, or just want to look at some OM paintings, head on down. It’s a great place to get a feel for how the art market works, what an art fair is, and what good art actually looks like— all up close and personal.
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Hide-and-Seek in a Pair of Wall Lights
So cool! I wonder if these were these were featured in the Getty’s 18th century show last year?
wtfarthistory:
At first glance, these simple wall lights appear to be made of undulating gold vegetation. Upon closer observation, however, they are alive with chase scenes. Take a look.
Unknown maker, Pair of Wall Lights, ca. 1735, gilt bronze. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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February 2012
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Hooray, the American Wing has reopened at the Met! →
Well, it has been open for some time now (weeks, not months, at least), but that doesn’t dampen any of the excitement.
From the Met’s website:
The Museum’s collection of American art, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, will return to view in expanded, reconceived, and dramatic new galleries on January 16, 2012. The new installation will provide visitors...
January 2012
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Wiener Blut!
I’m long overdue for a visit to Austria, and it looks like I should have visited Vienna yonks ago. Doing all of this Van Dyck research has renewed my curiosity for visiting the Liechtenstein Museum (a.k.a. “The Princely Collections”). Checking out this list of works that they have on display by Sir Anthony himself has me drooling.
That and the Albertina- top of the list.
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VAN DYCK SAY WHAT?!?
My lovely London-living friend Sarah tipped me off to the fact that Dulwich will be putting on a Van Dyck show starting 15 February. I’m so psyched! It has the worst title, ever, though: Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, 1624-5. Mmmm, yummy, plague pictures. Yes, please.
But thing is, I find the way they describe the exhibition to be a bit strange, i.e. within the context of...
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