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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Haarlem School, 1470 - 1500: The first phase of the flowering of Dutch art

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As my writings on the topic has shown, the flowering of Low Countries painting began with the Early Netherlandish (Flemish Primitives) Scho...
Friday, June 7, 2019

History of The Low Countries:1548 - 1567

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My most recent post on the history of the Low Countries ended with Charles V's acquisition of the Duchy of Guelders in 1543, bringing t...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism at the Frist Art Museum

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I visited the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving earlier this year and became an even greater fan of the a...
Friday, May 31, 2019

The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and Tintoretto: A story 500 years in the making

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To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Tintoretto, Venice Civic Museums Foundation began preparation as far back as 2015 for a m...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Tintoretto: A Venetian Master

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The artist that we know as Tintoretto was born Jacopo Comin in 1518 in Venice. His father gained the nickname Robusto after the manner in wh...
Monday, May 27, 2019

The Mannerist School (1530 - 1600)

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In its description of the subject of its exhibition Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, the National Gallery of Art states "With ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

The Antwerp Mannerists (1500 - 1530) painting style

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With the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, many of the early Netherlandish painters lost the main source of their patronage. Further, their...
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