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  • Salvator Rosa

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    Italian Baroque painter Salvator Rosa was known for his romantic (“sublime”) landscapes, battle scenes and marine paintings, as well as religious, allegorical and history paintings. He was also known as a rebel and free thinker, restless in his pursuit of intellectual and artistic exploration. Rosa was born and studied in Naples, though he studied for…

  • Peter de Sève: new website

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    Peter de Sève’s delightfully whimsical, wonderfully styled and beautifully rendered illustrations have become familiar to readers of The New Yorker, for which he has done a number of memorable covers, and other publications like Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian and Atlantic Monthly. Since I last wrote about him De Sève’s website has been revised and expanded, and…

  • Vermeer: Master of Light

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    Vermeer: Master of Light is a short series of videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington that explores some aspects of Vermeer’s paintings, like composition, color and diffuse edges, that are characteristic of his work and make a Vermeer a Vermeer. The series can be accessed on ArtBabble. There are five episodes, plus…

  • Paul Antonson

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    Sacramento based illustrator Paul Antonson has for several years done illustration and interactive design for the Wall Street Journal Online. He also has editorial clients that include The Village Voice, New York Press and The Onion. He is a children’s book illustrator as well. Antonson’s website includes work from various aspects of his career, and…

  • Piranesi’s Prisons: Architecture of Mystery and Imagination

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    18th Century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi was famous for his elaborate engravings of the fantastic architectural ruins of Rome. He is even more well known for a set of 14 copper plate etchings titled Carceri (“Prisons”). These are architectural fantasies, “capricious inventions” as they are described on the title page. Their monumental size, grand…

  • Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone From Outer Space!

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    Salesman Pete and the Amazing Stone From Outer Space! is a beautifully designed and wonderfully realized, if somewhat nonsensical, animated short by the team of Marc Bouyer, Max Loubaresse and Anthony Vivien, with music by Cyrille Marchesseau and sound design by Mael Vignaux. Involving a clumsy but super powered salesman protagonist, a villain with, er,..…