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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Haltadefinizione, high resolution art images

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    In my recent post on Monet at the Grand Palais, I was praising the online gallery in which a large number of Monet’s works have been made viewable on the web in relatively high resolution images. I say “relatively” because Haltadefinizione, or “HAL9000” (English version here), an Italian project specializing in high-definition photography, has made…

  • Monet at the Grand Palais

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    It may surprise lovers of Impressionism in the U.S. and Britain that Claude Monet, the artist whose name most hold synonymous with Impressionism, doesn’t evoke the same level of reverence in his native France. Not that he isn’t popular; the French just seem a bit more blasé about their cornucopia of Impressionist works and the…

  • Paintbox Leaves

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    Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth is an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY that features some prime examples of American landscape painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibit explores the fascination artists have had with the glories of the American landscape in Autumn, described by Thomas…