Diane Tucker’s blog, the Shy MuseumGoer, has a new posting about Blessed Fra Angelico. The pictures are beyond lovely and her descriptions are illuminating, as always. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/11/15/explore-fra-angelico-paintings/ Diane Tucker is the kind of person who takes a friend to the museum, and pretty soon has half a dozen other people following her around, pretending it’s [...]
My mother put herself through college in the late 1930's. She started at the University of Wisconsin, took some classes in Chicago while working there for Barnhardt, the dictionary people, and then finished through the University of Wisconsin extension. She used to talk about going to the Art Institute, and I had no idea what [...]
Today is the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. I went looking for images that included him and found a picture of Saint Ignatius Loyola first, because I had been careless in my prompt. Here it is. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/viewer/M.1975.03.P On the Norton Simon website it's not listed in the public domain, but it is very beautiful [...]
Since it is the Feast of Saint Jerome, and I found the most amazing picture back in August, I'm putting it up here again. It's from a museum in Vienna, painted by Rubens, Saint Jerome in the Vestments of a Cardinal Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie Room XIII This picture is rare in that an art historian friend says [...]
Working in downtown Washington, DC, fifty years ago meant that at lunch I occasionally walked to the National Gallery of Art where at the time, the gallery showed films about various artists. One of the films was about Toulouse-Lautrec. I remember only that I liked him and was very surprised by his art. The Shy [...]
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