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Sep 10, 2011, 6:53 am
After signing the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved a much less famous resolution that appointed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, to design the Great Seal of the United States of America.
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Jul 29, 2011, 6:49 am
New York City.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is pleased to present “Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe” until August 14th in the 2nd floor Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries. By 1750, almost 2,500 professional artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Po... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2011, 1:12 pm
Modernity, Regionalism, and Art Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, 1909
by Peter Clericuzio
Upon visiting the city of Nancy in 1909 for the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, the critic Max Durand wrote:
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Jul 28, 2011, 12:08 pm
Annibale Carracci’s ceiling frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese are considered by many to be one of the most influential Renaissance commissions in Rome. When the Bolognese artist’s love-themed cycle was unveiled in 1600 it was hailed as a masterpiece. Carracci’s mix of northern Italian naturalism... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2011, 2:24 pm
The Aesthetic Movement used sensual, exotic art and interior design to declare its opposition to vulgar materialism. Now a new V&A show examines this revolution in our ideal of beauty. Martin Gayford reports.
By Martin Gayford
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Jul 27, 2011, 2:08 pm
He was very happily married, and never went mad or broke. No wonder his paintings were so twisted…
By Nina Caplan
Never mind Tracey Emin’s drunkenness, Damien Hirst’s diamond skulls or Grayson Perry’s skirts: if you want a magnificent example of artistic perversity, take a look at Magritte... Comment - Like
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Jul 17, 2011, 4:51 am
In order to consider the future of Victorian literary studies within the long nineteenth century, we must go back to that earlier ‘period’ of the nineteenth century, and the French Revolution of 1789. During the Napoleonic wars, two British women poets published extensive poems that addressed th... Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2011, 5:33 am
Dear friends, take a look at this wonderful web site.
It is the electronic journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Every summer and winter, the journal publishes issues of peer-reviewed articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. ... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 4:20 am
Dramatic illustrations of saintly deaths, as well as elaborate tombs featuring portraits of the deceased, were among the most powerful and persistent images in medieval Byzantium from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Such artistic monuments expressed both individual and communal ideas about d... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2011, 9:17 am
In Classical Greece, young girls usually grew up in the care of a nurse (25.78.26) and spent most of their time in the gynaikon, the women’s quarters of the house located on an upper floor. The gynaikon was where mothers nursed their children and engaged in spinning thread and weaving (31.11.10). ... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2011, 3:27 am
The remarkable career of Henri Matisse, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, whose stylistic innovations (along with those of Pablo Picasso) fundamentally altered the course of modern art and affected the art of several generations of younger painters, spanned almost six... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2011, 9:33 am
In 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, among others. The group was unified o... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 5:35 am
The self-proclaimed “proudest and most arrogant man in France,” Gustave Courbet created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850–51 when he exhibited a group of paintings set in his native Ornans, a village in the Franche-Comté in eastern France. These works, including The Stonebreakers (184... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 2:13 pm
Artist Ivona Popovic is making this wonderful gift cards… Some of the cards you can see here, and the whole new world of cards you can see on Facebook profile and link
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Jan 10, 2011, 1:51 pm
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century. Figures in Middle Eastern dress appear in Renaissance and Baroque works by such artists as Bellin... Comment - Like
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Jan 7, 2011, 5:29 am
Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast. He led t... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 5:26 am
Although arms and armor are most commonly associated with warfare, both were used in other contexts, including hunting, tournaments, and as parade costume.
For warfare, arms and armor must, above all, be practical, affording the utmost protection and functionality without impairing body movemen... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2010, 10:17 am
Restaurierung der Bildtafeln zur Ausstellung: Hans Holbein d.Ä.: Die Graue Passion in ihrer Zeit, 1494-1500, Öl auf Fichtenholz jeweils ca. 89 x 87 cm. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
STUTTGART.- Hans Holbein the Elder: The Grey Passion in its Time opened at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart on 27 November... Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2010, 6:54 am
Adamwas the most famous of the four sons of the Scottish architect William Adam (1698–1748).
He was brought up in Edinburgh and went to university there (1743–1745). His family circle was that of the Edinburgh Enlightenment, and he was related to the Scottish historian William Robertson and... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2010, 2:40 pm
PARIS— With their strong tradition of state sponsorship of the arts — which dates all the way back to the centralization of political power in the person of Louis XIV — the French are not at all accustomed to relying on the individual donors who play such a crucial role in American and Bri... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2010, 3:09 pm
Rising above the typical city-state (or polis) of ancient Greece was a high but accessible hill that functioned at various times in its history as a citadel or sanctuary (and, often, both), a place of refuge and a focus of religious life—an acropolis (literally, high city or city on the height... Comment - Like
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Oct 11, 2010, 5:36 am
Oneof the pivotal figures in early sixteenth-century German art, Cranach the Elder was the Reformation artist par excellence. A close friend and follower of Martin Luther (they were godfathers to one another’s children), Cranach collaborated with Luther in producing numerous single-sheet woodcu... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2010, 4:32 am
The unearthed double limestone statue of Ahmenhotep III, one of the most powerful pharaohs, who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, was discovered in Kom el-Hittan, the site of the temple of Amenhotep III. The temple is one of the largest in the southern temple city of Luxor. (AP Photo/Supreme Council... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2010, 8:54 am
The agora was the central square in the Greek polis, the setting for political meetings, markets, cults, public entertainment, and civic commemoration. The root meaning of the word is political, derived from the verb agoreuein, to speak in assembly. As a designated space the agora is likely to b... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2010, 8:53 am
VERSAILLES, France— Takashi Murakami’s show at Versailles has drawn worldwide attention for its juxtaposition of the Japanese artist’s manga-influenced work with the Gallic splendor of the Old Regime French kings, but next year the Château will not give over its gleaming halls to contempor... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 8:42 am
The naked image of a dwarf who starred at the Medici court in the Florentine Renaissance, has been revealed after nearly three centuries of oblivion, Italian art experts announced last week at a press conference in Florence.
Known as the Portrait of Dwarf Morgante, the painting, a two-sided can... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 8:03 am
PARIS— It’s certainly appropriate that French artist Mathieu Mercier won the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2003, since he has always shown a special interest in the ground-breaking conceptual artist. Now Mercier has found a novel way to pay tribute to one of Duchamp’s most famous works... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2010, 8:00 am
PARIS—The Russian government has officially refused to allow abstract canvases by artist Avdei Ter-Oganyan to appear in an upcoming exhibition at the Louvre, objecting in particular to a painting that they say advocates the assassination of prime minister Vladimir Putin. In response, several other... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 7:07 pm
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (January 28, 1902 – August 15, 1981), known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
American art historian and administrator who played an enormously important and controversial role in establishi... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 7:04 pm
An abstract expressionist, he made his mark with large black-and-white paintings featuring architectonic forms constructed from broad, slashing lines. Swaths of black paint, sometimes applied with a housepainter’s brush, are held in ... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2010, 8:04 am
In 1556 Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520–89), patron of Bembo and Vasari, commissioned Giacomo Vignola to build a villa at Caprarola, 55 kilometres (35 miles) north of Rome; the building was erected on the foundations of an earlier villa begun by Antonio Sangallo the Younger. The villa was... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2010, 12:02 pm
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer, and theater artist. His declared intention to “act” in the “gap” between art and life, as he put it in 1959, succinctly characterized his contribution to art history. In the 1950s ... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2010, 11:55 am
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker. An abstract expressionist who set precedents for color field painting, he is known for enormous solid-color canvases broken only by one or more stripes or “zips,” as he preferred to call them. Like other abstract expres... Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2010, 7:08 pm
One of the pivotal figures in early sixteenth-century German art, Cranach the Elder was the Reformation artist par excellence. A close friend and follower of Martin Luther (they were godfathers to one another’s children), Cranach collaborated with Luther in producing numerous single-sheet w... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2010, 7:24 am
The historiography of art history has been a potent theme in the discourses of the
discipline of the last thirty years. And the approaches and methods in the study of
the visual are probably more varied, and more vigorously debated, than in any
other area of historical enquiry. This is so much so... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2010, 8:10 am
Iconoclasm a religious movement of the 8th and 9th C. that denied the holiness of Icons and rejected icon veneration. Clerical opposition to the artistic depiction of sacred personages had its roots in late antiquity. In the 4th C. Eusebios of Caesarea, evidently drawing on the christology of Or... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2010, 6:49 am
The Medici family had a suite of fourteen villas near Florence, of which the most important were situated in Careggi, Castello, Fiesole, and Poggio a Caiano; in the sixteenth century the family also acquired a villa in Rome.
The Villa Careggi, in what is now a northern suburb of Florence, is th... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2010, 5:34 pm
Fêtes and Triumphs, elaborate festivals organized by or for royalty, incorporated many forms of entertainment, including dance. The triumphs, named for the triumphal arches erected for the occasion by townspeople, welcomed the monarch to their city as the royal entourage traveled the realm to ... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2010, 8:19 am
My dear friends,
I have just found one great database where you can find all letters that Van Gogh have written… Hope you will enjoy it…
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Jul 28, 2010, 5:08 am
Chora Monastery (Turk. Kariye Camii), located in the northwestern region of Constantinople near Edirne Kapi. The early history of Chora (Ξώρα, lit. “dwelling place”) is obscure. A legendary tradition attributes the foundation to the 6th-C. saint Theodore (BHG 1743), supposed uncle of Ju... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 5:37 am
In the eighteenth century, the pamphlet was ubiquitous in western Europe and in the British colonies of North America. As brief, topical publications, pamphlets ranged in length from a few pages to well over one hundred; their print runs were as low as a few hundred copies or as high as several ... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 11:32 am
The topic of the Reformation and art can claim a long history. The Protestant movement had scarcely got under way before observers noted implications for painting and sculpture. The Nuremberg artist Albrecht Dürer in 1525 uttered warnings concerning the futility of image destruction and the dif... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2010, 10:18 am
The historical phenomenon that began on 8 June 793 with the sack of Lindisfarne abbey in Northumberland and ended around 1050 left a lasting trace in the memory of the frightened West. The Viking myth of the barbarian brute, standing in horned helmet at the prow of his drakkar, is still vivid ... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2010, 6:55 am
Experts say the collection of gold and silver pieces, completely reshape our understanding of the Dark Ages. The find containing almost fifteen hundred gold and silver items thought to date from the 7th or 8th century, staggering archeologists with it’s unparalleled in size and may be worth mill... Comment - Like
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Apr 13, 2010, 2:13 pm
Representations of the pharaohs in Egyptian statuary, known from the Early Dynastic to the Roman period had many functions: propagandistic, religious, didactic, commemorative, magical, and decorative. Found in temples, tombs, palaces and—exceptionally—private homes, they are made of various ... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2010, 8:41 am
The origins of portraiture in ancient Egypt no doubt lie in the belief in eternal life. In the early phases of Egyptian history known collectively as the Predynastic period, there were attempts to preserve the body. In the Old Kingdom, the cadaver was wrapped in linen that was stiffened with res... Comment - Like
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