Édouard Manet and modern beauty
Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalog of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalog concentrates on Manet’s production in the last years
Early John Constable Sketches Spent 200 Years Forgotten in a Family Scrapbook
Today, John Constable’s depictions of gray cumulus clouds; overgrown, verdant foliage; and cow-filled, bucolic pastures rank among England’s most renowned 19th-century landscape paintings. But as Mark Brown notes for the Guardian, the British painter was a bit of a late
5 Lessons from the Renaissance Master
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings were but a few of his many contributions during his lifetime. Often touted as having been one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance, he was a renowned painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, and inventor. (His inventions include
Revisiting Magnus Enckell
Magnus Enckell’s body of work is strikingly difficult to categorize. Ranging from the sparse to the utterly fantastical, Enckell’s oeuvre does not fall neatly within one aesthetic movement, but instead, offers themes, revisited in new styles. Among his creations, which are now on view in the Magnus Enckell retrospective at Ateneum, one finds a sepia-toned self-portrait; death marching
Van Gogh Painting from Coveted Arles Period Could Fetch $25 M. at Christie’s
Vincent van Gogh, Le pont de Trinquetaille, 1888.
An 1888 Vincent van Gogh painting will be offered at Christie’s in a 20th-century art auction in New York on May 13. Titled Le Pont de Trinquetaille (1888), the work is estimated to sell for $25 million–$35 million.
The story of the long lost Da Vinci
In 1500, Louis XII of France commissioned Leonardo Da Vinci to paint what, today is known as, Salvator Mundi, or ‘Savior of the World’. However, the painting has been through a long journey to reach its present state, a painting worth 450 million dollars, and will in the future reside at Abu Dhabi Louvre. The painting portrays Jesus holding an orb in his left hand and giving a Benediction with his right hand, both are painted with stunning detail, we also see these luscious curly locks of his hair leading to his face, which gazes at the viewer in a solemn yet mysterious gaze. Jesus is also portrayed as wearing a stunningly detailed gown with wonderful drapery.
