The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shows Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe
New York City.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is pleased to present “Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th Century Europe” until August 14th in the 2nd floor Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries. By 1750, almost 2,500 professional artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by all ranks of [...]
Modernity, Regionalism, and Art Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, 1909
Modernity, Regionalism, and Art Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, 1909 by Peter Clericuzio Upon visiting the city of Nancy in 1909 for the Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, the critic Max Durand wrote: This summer, Nancy is a favorite destination for pilgrimage and excursion. One comes to learn, [...]
Carracci’s celebrated ceiling to be cleaned
Annibale Carracci’s ceiling frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese are considered by many to be one of the most influential Renaissance commissions in Rome. When the Bolognese artist’s love-themed cycle was unveiled in 1600 it was hailed as a masterpiece. Carracci’s mix of northern Italian naturalism and Roman idealism laid the foundation for Baroque art. Now, [...]
The Cult of Beauty is at the V&A: Escape into style, The Telegraph
The Aesthetic Movement used sensual, exotic art and interior design to declare its opposition to vulgar materialism. Now a new V&A show examines this revolution in our ideal of beauty. Martin Gayford reports. By Martin Gayford
René Magritte: surrealism’s straight man, The Telegraph
He was very happily married, and never went mad or broke. No wonder his paintings were so twisted… By Nina Caplan
Revolution, Romanticism and the Long Nineteenth Century
In order to consider the future of Victorian literary studies within the long nineteenth century, we must go back to that earlier ‘period’ of the nineteenth century, and the French Revolution of 1789. During the Napoleonic wars, two British women poets published extensive poems that addressed the impact of the revolutionary crisis on Britain’s future [...]
Electronic journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
Dear friends, take a look at this wonderful web site. It is the electronic journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Every summer and winter, the journal publishes issues of peer-reviewed articles that focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later [...]
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