Tag: Dutch

  • Rembrandt Lost and Gained: Portrait of a Young Woman at the Allentown Art Museum

    Rembrandt Lost and Gained: Portrait of a Young Woman at the Allentown Art Museum

    The Allentown Art Museum recently celebrated the addition of a Rembrandt painting to its collection. The catch? The museum has owned it for sixty years!

  • Frick Madison Shines New Light on Old Friends

    Frick Madison Shines New Light on Old Friends

    I was one of the first people to enjoy Frick Madison, whose combination of old art and modern architecture literally shines new light on beloved artworks.

  • The Sleeve Should Be Illegal – A Unique New Book from the Frick

    The Sleeve Should Be Illegal – A Unique New Book from the Frick

    The Sleeve Should Be Illegal is a book of essays responding to works in the Frick’s collection. I received an early copy and really enjoyed it.

  • The Hyde Collection – Masterpieces in the Adirondacks

    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.

  • The Joys of the Dutch Golden Age

    The Joys of the Dutch Golden Age

    The long-term exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met gave me a new appreciation for the art of the Dutch Golden Age.

  • Art That Inspires Me: Still Life Painting

    Art That Inspires Me: Still Life Painting

    Back in the days of the artistic academies, still life was considered the least prestigious of the painting genres, but it’s one of my personal favorites.

  • Skating Through Time on a Snow Day

    Skating Through Time on a Snow Day

    Snow day! Who doesn’t love those words? Here in the northeastern United States, we are currently having a nice snow day, which makes it seem like a perfect time to do the second part of the winter paintings series I started around Christmas time. While part one was about winter landscapes, part two is about ice skating paintings!…

  • A Still Life by Johanna Helena Looisen (December 20th)

    Today’s painting, Still Life with Christmas Pudding, Holly and Wine, is my first Advent Calendar work by a female artist. I wasn’t specifically looking for a work by a female painter today, just as I wasn’t intentionally avoiding female artists for the first nineteen days. I’m featuring the painting because I love it; it’s compelling for…

  • Text in Manuscripts – Day 4

    Text in Manuscripts – Day 4

    Art historians primarily see manuscripts as works of art, but we shouldn’t forget that they are also books intended to convey the written word.

  • Gargoyle and Grotesques of St. John’s Cathedral, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

    Technically, these little fellows are grotesques rather than true gargoyles, but who cares when they’re so charming? Apes, monkeys, and related creatures had rather poor connotations in the Middle Ages, symbolizing a variety of evils and sins including greed and lust, but this pair is depicted with a touching humanity nonetheless.

  • An Old Dutch Skating Painting

    An Old Dutch Skating Painting

    A pair of paintings from the Rijksmuseum collection show the popularity of outdoor ice skating in the history of the Netherlands.

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