A reader just sent me a link to her list of 15 art books for…
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Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642) is one of the more important figures in the Pantheon of art history. He was born shortly after the Council of Trent, where the Catholic Church proposed sweeping changes to the arts in an attempt combat rising Protestantism. Reni became a leading proponent of a new aesthetic that clearly told stories through the use of large-scale religious and historical figures
In Goethe’s Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust to a mountain where he witnesses a Witch’s Sabbath…
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The recent exhibition, Acts of Mercy, at the National Gallery has brought well-deserved attention to…
Read the PostForgotten Master: Federick Cayley Robinson (British, 1862-1927)
Gordon was considered by many to be one of the world’s foremost authorities of European and Asian ceramics. He dedicated the last and best years of his life to teaching new generations of experts, who are now writers, dealers, curators and directors of museums all over the world.
With art historians earnestly looking for prominent female artists, it is surprising that so little…
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Recently, I was asked to judge the annual Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon. The…
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