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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Mary Tomkins Lewis looks at the "tour-de-force studio painting... against which legions of later artists, including Goya and Picasso, have measured themselves" — The Power, and Art, of Painting . She writes: Countless writers have debated the work's seductive visual riddles: its transparent naturalism yet strangely inaccessible subject, its striking combination of a captured moment...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
MADRID.- The Ministry of Culture and the Sorolla Museum Foundation have organized the exhibition “Dialogues: Sorolla & Velázquez, which can be seen until January 24, 2010 at the Sorolla Museum in Madrid. Dialogues is an exhibition project that was born with the intent of reviewing the relationship between Sorolla with his great influence, Diego Velázquez. The exhibition includes...
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Heraclitean Fire (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
To quote their own blurb: ‘The Sacred Made Real’ presents a landmark reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age with works created to shock the senses and stir the soul. Paintings, including masterpieces by Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán, are displayed for the very first time alongside Spain’s remarkable polychrome wooden sculptures. By ‘polychrome...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
LONDON.- Created to shock the senses and stir the soul… "The Sacred Made Real" presents a landmark reappraisal of religious art from the Spanish Golden Age. Paintings including masterpieces by Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán are displayed for the very first time alongside Spain’s remarkable ‘polychrome’ (painted) sculptures. While the religious...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Time for your daily dose of Gadlinks, our look at the best of the rest from the travel blogosphere.... Bootsnall lists the Eight Paintings Every Traveler Should See , including Guernica , American Gothic , and (of course) the Mona Lisa . My humble recommendation: Madrid's Museo del Prado, where you'll find Francisco Goya's dazzling painting The Third of May 1808 and Las Meninas ("The Maids of...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
It’s bad enough that [US] High School text books now preach anti-white bigotry and are designed to instil white guilt. Now Bedford/St. Martins Publishing has decreed that white people should not even be pictured on the front cover of a textbook on Western Civilization. Rather than choose from the multitudes of famous people from Western society, Bedford/St. Martin choose a 17th century Mulatto...
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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The Guardian and Tate have today initiated a discussion - half based on Twitter - about Turner vs. the Old Masters . David Solkin, the curator at Tate, walked a Guardian journalist through the exhibition that pitches Turner's paintings against those that inspired them. Turner's works are shown next to Willem Van de Velde the Younger's, Rembrandt's, and Poussin's. According to Solkin, it's 2:1 to Turner....
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News On Women (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
Mary Tompkins Lewis, Art Professor at Trinity College, writes about the Diego Velazquez masterpiece, "Las Meninas" in the Wall Street Journal. I have always loved this painting and so enjoyed her artistic intrepretation of it. Read Mary's article on wsj.com.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
MADRID.- "Portrait of a Man", a work of art that is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, which was reattributed to Diego Velázquez last week, will most probably be shown in the Museo del Prado in the near future, stated Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan. The news story about the reattribution of the painting to Velázquez was announced last week...
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Hani O'Keeffe (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
I was so pleased to visit the wonderful Wallace Collection in Manchester Square, London, yesterday. My first visit in a long time. A peaceful calm haven, right in the middle of the city. I especially wanted to see The Lady with a Fan by Diego Velazquez. I love every inch of this painting, the position of the figure on the canvas slightly to one side, and the way the shape and mass of the sitter creates...
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Len Cartoons (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Having been a bit fed up with drawing cartoons recently, I’m currently in the middle of drawing something without a punchline- copying a detail of Diego Velázquez’s ‘Rokeby Venus’- specifically the fat cherub holding the mirror. I don’t have the original (I was told off by the guard when I tried to lift it from the National Gallery in London), so I’m having...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reattributed an Old Master painting in its collection to the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velazquez. The museum says it made the determination after "a technical examination and cleaning" of layers of thick ...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reattributed an Old Master painting in its collection to the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velazquez. The museum says it made the determination after "a technical examination and cleaning" of layers of thick v...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Filed under: Travel Trivia Tuesday Travel Trivia is already in its 46th week, which means that if it were a newborn, it would probably already be weaned off the nipple and in full-on sippy-cup mode right about now. (Alas, it's all downhill from there.) A big shout-out to last week's trivia winner, SydneyMealley , who notched an impressive 9 out of 10 score on some pretty tough questions . Way to go!...
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Blogger Shepherd (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Rokeby Venus Originally uploaded by Roger Shepherd Of the many reworkings of classic pictures I enjoyed this one greatly. One of my friends has a print of the original, by Diego Velazquez, in his bathroom. Banksy's reworking reminded me of that house on Melrose Place.
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