The Shy Museum Goer dropped a lovely blog post about snow over the weekend. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/01/05/the-fine-art-of-depicting-snow/ She says that snow was first found in Western European art in the 1500's. Go check out Pieter Bruegel's painting of the Epiphany in the snow. Diane Tucker is always fun. The Jericho Society has images from the Vermont enthusiast, [...]
Some links today. Header from Benvenuto di Giovanni 1400's. A story about three pictures by Peter Paul Rubens that were exhibited together at the National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2015/rubens-the-three-magi.html Here's a whole presentation about the paintings in the exhibit. https://www.nga.gov/features/rubens-magi.html#parmain_text Mary as a shepherdess? Mary divine??? A fascinating and very balanced discussion of a statue [...]
Header: The Adoration of the Magi Sandro Botticelli 1478-1482 National Gallery of Art: Public domain Here below is Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi's interpretation. (1440-1460) I've always loved the circular format and the peacock. Discussion of symbolism in the painting... https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/angelico-lippi-the-adoration-of-the-magi.html Update! https://www.nga.gov/stories/adoration-of-the-magi-fra-angelico-fra-filippo-lippi.html#top Another link! December 27: Feast of Saint John the Apostle. December [...]
The Presentation O-Sek Bang, 1974 from an exhibit at the Marian Library at University of Dayton, in 2006. Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea was an exhibit at the University of Dayton's Marian Center in 2006. It featured a Korean artist, O-Sek Bang. The promotional material says that "Ms. Bang, whose grandparents [...]
I absolutely enjoy reading about the artists featured on Diane Tucker’s blog, The Shy Museumgoer. She’s dropped a new post and I whipped right through reading it. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2024/09/18/thiebaud-cake-and-freeway-paintings/ Then I went back for a slower appreciation. Tucker discusses the artist, Wayne Thiebaud, who I guess is very modern. But when I say that, all I [...]
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