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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Alexandre Cabanel

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    Alexandre Cabanel was a French Academic classical painter who showed notable skill at drawing at the age of 11 and entered the École des Beaux-Arts at 17. He quickly began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. He was renowned as a portrait painter as well as a painter of historic, religious and classical subjects, and eventually…

  • Guy Rose (update)

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    When I wrote about Guy Rose back in 2007 there were only a few resources online, since then, however, much to my delight, The Athenaeum has posted has posted over 120 good-sized images of his beautiful paintings. Guy Orlando Rose is considered one of the foremost of the painters known as “California Impressionists”. I put…

  • The Nativity by Petrus Christus

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    This depiction of the Nativity by Petrus Christus (large version here) strikes me as one of the more interesting and unusual interpretations of the event. We view the scene through a framing trompe l’oeil arch, likely inspired by the influence of Rogier van der Wyden’s similar compositions, such as his Miraflores Altarpiece (and interesting to…

  • Jonathan Janson

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    Occasionally artists will become particularly fascinated with the work of one of their predecessors, and study the work of that artist in depth. Such is the case with Jonathan Janson, and artist originally from (if I’m not mistaken) Seattle, now living and working in Rome. Janson has a deep and abiding interest in the work…

  • 2008 Best Art Book Lists

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    To go along with my previous post about 2008 Best Graphic Novel Lists, here’s a list of lists from various corners for art, design and photography books for 2008: About.com: Best 10 Art Books of 2008 New York Times: 2008 Holiday Gift Guide, The Best Art Architecture and Design Books (if it asks for a…

  • American Impressionism from the Phillips Collection

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    Those who have been reading Lines and Colors for a while will know that I have a particular fondness for many of the late 19th, early 20th Century painters referred to as “American Impressionists”. (I put the phrase in quotes because I doubt the painters ever referred to themselves in those terms.) The Phillips Collection…