Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Aegidius Sadeler rhino
Fable of the Rhinoceros and Elephants, Aegidius Sadeler Etching, roughly 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (96x112mm), 1608. In the Rijksmuseum. Today — I am informed in a tweet from the Rijksmusem — is World Rhino Day. In celebration they point to a selection of rhino images from their collection, from which I focused on…
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Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2015
Women Painting Women is the title and subject of a group show at the RJD Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY, that runs from October 10 to November 4, 2015. The large example images on the gallery’s own website are watermarked to an extent that renders them essentially pointless. However, there is a selection of unmarked…
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Gherardo Cibo’s 16th century watercolor illustrations of medicinal herbs
De Materia Medica is a Greek manual on herbal medicine written by Pedanius Dioscorides in the first century. It was re-issued in the 16th century in an expanded version with annotations by Italian physician Pietro Andrea Mattioli. This version featured illustrations by the artist Gherardo Cibo, who was noted for his interest in botany and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer’s waterfalls
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales; watercolor and gouache, Yale Center for British Art; The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales, oil, Tate, Britain; Samuel Palmer Though both are striking, I find 19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s watercolor and gouache study of this dramatic landscape even more compelling than his finished oil. The watercolor is 17×21 inches (44x53cm),…
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David Bottini
Landscape painter David Bottini uses the signature “Gabriel” on his paintings as a tribute to his grandfather, who inspired in him the love of the natural world that he brings to his intricate and richly colored landscapes. Bottini appears to relish the complexity of forest interior scenes, with myriad leaves and branches revealed in dappled…