Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2012

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bellini Madonna

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    Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini. Another of Bellini’s strikingly individualistic faces for religious subjects, and the superb painting ability that caused Durer to write of Bellini after a visit to Venice: “He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all.” See my post on Giovanni Bellini. In the Metropolitan Museum.…

  • Nicholas Roerich

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    Nicholas Roerich was a Russian painter, set designer and philosopher. He was also trained as a lawyer and was an amateur archeologist. Roerich’s work shows the influence of Russian and Nordic folk tales, iconography, his interest in eastern religion and his travels in India, Tibet and Mongolia. Roerich was also known for his efforts to…