Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Sin and Salvation: William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision is the title of a show of the artist’s paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs and other items (64 objects) opening on June 14 at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Hunt is one of the three principle founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and along with Sir…

Steven Assael is a New York artist who paints and draws figurative works that feel simultaneously sharply focused and viscerally textured. Assael also looks for texture of another sort, in the vivid personalities of his subjects, often drawn from the enthusiasts in the body art subculture and carrying their own secondary visual texture in the…

In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of a noblewoman, titled Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, sometimes titled La Gioconda, and known popularly as the Mona Lisa, was stolen from its place in the Louvre in Paris. The event caused an enormous stir, eclipsing for a time talk of an impending war,…

George Loftus Noyes was an American painter, born in Canada of American parents, who started painting at an early age, and became a noted landscape painter in the Boston area just after the turn of the 20th Century. Noyes studied with English artist George Bartlett in Boston, and later studied in Paris at the ateliers…

William Degouve de Nuncques was a French-born Belgian Symbolist painter. He was self-taught, though his style was influenced friends and roommates Jan Toorop and Henry de Groux. His art was particularly shaped by his contact with the group of Symbolist poets to whom he was introduced by Juliette Massin, also an artist, who he married…