Author: A Scholarly Skater
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Some of My Favorite Art Books
Here are fifteen entertaining, informative, and highly readable art-related books that I have personally read and loved.
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The Veterans Room: A Gilded Age Shrine at the Park Avenue Armory
Inside NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, the Gilded Age Veterans Room is a rare surviving interior by Louis Comfort Tifffany’s Associated Artists.
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The Landscape Paintings of Robert Duncanson
Robert Duncanson was an early Hudson River School painter in the United States and Canada. His work is gorgeous, but we don’t talk much about him today.
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Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart: the Gothic Spirit in America
The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a beautiful, massive Gothic Revival church in Newark, New Jersey. There, I recap my recent visit.
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“Pictor Angelicus” – Fra Angelico the Angelic Painter
In honor of the Christmas season, let’s look at Fra Angelico – an Italian Renaissance artist famous for his beautiful and elegant angel paintings.
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Resurrecting Female Artists – an interview with Eve Kahn
Eve Kahn’s new book tells the life story of painter Mary Rogers Williams. Kahn sat talked with me about her work in resurrecting forgotten female artists.
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Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories: an Ode to the Met
Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories: A Novel is a beautiful, whimsical poetic ode to one of the world’s most significant art museums – the Met.
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What’s So Special About the Book of Kells?
I hear a lot of confusion about The Book of Kells, which is apparently not as well-known as I thought. Let me explain what it is and why it’s so special.
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Much Ado About a New Cimabue
A painting attributed to Cimabue was recently found in a French woman’s kitchen. Learn why this discovery is both significant and controversial.
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Miss Florence’s Painted Dining Room
The Florence Griswold Museum in CT was once a boarding house for American Impressionists, who decorated the dining room walls for their host.
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The Grumpy Angel
In this painting by 14th-century artist Niccolo di ser Sozzo, the angel looks impatient and irritated. This is something you don’t see very often.
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The Hyde Collection – Masterpieces in the Adirondacks
The Hyde Collection is the most delightful little surprise – a world-class art collection in the unassuming Adirondack town of Glens Falls, NY.
