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 [...]
Category: national gallery of art
Apples again!
I delight in autumn. At least when it’s not raining for three days and being totally gloomy. A little rain is good to keep the dust from decaying leaves down on the ground where it can do some good. It’s not nourishing the soil when it is making me sneeze! I appreciate the produce that [...]
Art and memory
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 [...]
Art and Saint Augustine
Yesterday, August 28, was the Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Lots of people wrote about him but what I loved was the many pictures gracing the articles. The picture where he catches his heart in his hand, and it has caught fire from the Holy Spirit made me laugh. Saint Augustine, oil on canvas [...]
What was Leonardo thinking?
Louvre, Virgin of the Rocks 1483-1486 Leonardo da Vinci Louvre, Paris Wikipedia/public domain London Virgin of the Rocks 1495-1508 Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery London Wikipedia/public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks A friend of mine and I were discussing the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, possibly because the Catholic Church just celebrated the [...]
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