The Crescat (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Saints Romanus and Barulas, by Francisco de Zurbarán. Saint Romanus, who was from Antioch, lived during the reign of Maximian. He presented himself before Asclepiades the Eparch, and rebuked him, saying, "The idols are not gods; even a little child could tell you that." Then the Saint asked that a child be brought in from the market, that he might be the judge of the matter at hand....
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...
The Jobbing Doctor (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
There is little to say that hasn't been said already about Guernica , by Picasso. Since I am in Madrid for the week, this is one of the essentials. I know I have seen it before, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't see it again (I reckon its like going to see an opera - you know the story, the tunes, how it ends, but you get something different out of it every time). So is it with Guernica. I reckon my...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
At the heart of the National Gallery's new show, The Sacred Made Real, lies a question intended to vex: why do we find 17th-century Spanish religious painting so easy to look at, 17th-century Spanish religious sculpture so hard? Why does Zurbaran's canvas of St Francis Standing in Ecstasy strike us as sublime, Pedro de Mena's wooden effigy of the same subject as cheesy?
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
This CBC article is, well, interesting, perhaps in the sense of "interesting" but perhaps not. An Ottawa exhibition that depicts the martyrdom of famous Canadian icons could upset some fans of Anne of Green Gables. Thorneycraft's image is based on the Martyrdom of St. Agatha, by Francisco de Zurbaran. Artist Diana Thorneycroft uses Canadian icons to show how religion and torture have come...
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...
baithak (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
baithak has an aura. sheesha, fireplace, bulging bookshelves, rugs, divan takias and more...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
BILBAO.- Curated by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Benito Navarrete, the exhibition will include fifty or so works by the young Murillo (Seville, 1617-82) from a crucial period in his career, one represented—through some particularly fine works—in the collections of both Bilbao and Seville Fine Arts Museums: St. Peter Weeping (c.1650-55) and St. Lesmes (c. 1655) in Bilbao,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The National Gallery's astonishing new show of Spanish religious art spares its audience nothing – gaping wounds, rivers of blood, severed heads. Adrian Searle is deeply moved Full of great and terrible things, this is a marvellous and often disturbing exhibition. Dramatically lit against dark grey walls, the National Gallery's Sacred Made Real is a show of painted space and real space, real...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The first exhibition to examine the religious visual culture of 17th-century Spain and Latin America will premiere at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on October 11, 2009. "Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World" brings to life the challenges faced by visual artists such as El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán, Alonso Cano, Franciso Ribalta, Bartolomé Esteban...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado has broken a ten year old attendance record with its Sorolla exhibition. More than 450,000 persons visited the exhibition which closed last Sunday. The director of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, made the informaion public today saying that this exhibition was visited by more persons than others held in previous years. Incuding Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, El...
My Buenos Aires Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
On Sunday, September 20, 2009 , the most important art event starts in Buenos Aires: "La Semana del Arte 2009" (Buenos Aires Art Week 2009) . For the sixth consecutive year, nearly 100 art galleries, museums, and cultural centers will take part in a seven-day event where visitors will be able to enjoy guided visits, conferences, concerts, special Gallery Nights, and diverse cultural and...
Shrine of the Holy Whapping (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
The following article was recently passed along to me, and it was too intriguing not to share. In it, Morten Lauridsen shares some of the creative process that went into composing his "O Magnum Mysterium", inlcuding some inspiration from a Zurbarán still life. Particularly fascinating is that the piece finds its roots in chant and polyphony, and yet, it is a thoroughly modern piece;...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Go away. Why won't you get gone? How come you are still here? Did somebody drop you on your head, just now, and you're too disoriented to find your way down a hill? Are you just insane? Why won't you go, when somebody asks you so politely? Oh, I see, you came here for something, and you won't up and go until I up and give it to you. And that something would have to be of great value, yes? Well, my...
My Buenos Aires Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
On Friday, August 28st, 2009 , from 7 PM , a new edition of Gallery Nights 2009 , the original circuit for art lovers around more than 60 art galleries, antique shops, museums and cultural centers, will take place in the neighborhoods of Retiro and Barrio Norte in Buenos Aires. Gallery Nights is organized by the art magazine Arte al Día , AdnCultura (La Nacion newspaper), and the Ministry of...
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