Rembrandt Interprets Edouard Manet’s, Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe
The London Courtauld institution supports the idea that its own smaller version is a preparatory work-in-progress of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. Research by Conservators at the Courtauld, 25 November 2016 supports a theory that its version is a preparatory work by Manet created for in the Musée d’Orsay version. Prior […]
Fine Arts in the Principality of Monaco
The Principality of Monaco has had a long tradition, from the Renaissance, onwards, in encouraging and supporting artists. AN IMPORTANT EARLY RENAISSANCE PAINTER, LOUIS BRÉA, and his brother Antoine, were already engaged in important commissions in the Principality through 1500 to 1505. An important early Renaissance painter was engaged in important commissions in the Principality […]
REMBRANDT, IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC
The Life, Death and Miracles of Rembrandt van Rijn The legendary Ariadne, an ancient Athenian heroine fascinated me as a child: her adventure, helping the Greek hero Theseus to escape from labyrinth in Crete using a length of thread she had previously fixed to theentrance as a means of escape, having killed the fearsome monster, […]
Matthew in the Irish National Gallery
[Didascalia immagine ] The National Gallery is rated one of the twelve most important European Old Master art museum collections. He assumed responsibility of, for example, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Nicolas Poussin’s, Acis and Galatea. In Italy, with the Italian government’s Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome he restored large […]
THE REMBRANDT GEERTJE AND HENDREICJE SHOW
The Rembrandt Geertje and Hendreicje Show. Art-lovers, and the simply curious, had the opportunity to see as his creation [link]in the July 2020 Monegasque Government’s Fine-Arts Biennale. THE REMBRANDT GEERTJE AND HENDREICJE SHOWThe interesting background of Rembrandt’s disorganised family life. jumping the centuries from the Netherlands,’s golden age to the usa postwar artists war of […]
How to save an old painting that you inherited
MATTHEW MOSS – Caring for Old Master Paintings Nuptial Portrait PAINTED BY THE FLORENTINE PAINTER MICHELE TOSINI in the period 1503-77. A pupil of Lorenzo di Credi, he took the name of the artist, Ridolfo di Ghirlandaio (1483-1561), with whom he collaborated on various paintings. https://www.worldcat.org/title/caring-for-old-master-paintings-their-preservation-and-conservation/oclc/246570194 The Bible of Caring for your Old Paintings DISCOVER […]
Fortuitous rescue of a lost Old Master
The discovery and rescue of a lost ,Venus chastising Cupid Old Master painting, Venus chastising Cupid, inserted into an eighteenth-century carved rococo timber frame; circa 1700, Oil on canvas, 75cm x 62.5cm. THE PAINTING SHOWS THE STRONG IMPACT OF CORREGGIO ANTONIO ALLEGRI the Renaissance artist, 1489 – 1534. Correggio’s work informs the development of subsequent […]
An Artemisia Conundrum
Artemisia’s Distraught Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Infant HITHERTO UNKNOWN PAINTING, ‘GRIEVING MOTHER & CHILD’ BY WOMAN BAROQUE ARTIST ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI IS HIDDEN HERE WITHIN SIX SELF-PORTRAITS Scholars are still trying to determine if she created the painting in or about 1612 as a reaction to her feeling of impotence in the face of a society […]
Artemisia’s Distraught Young Mother Breastfeeding Her Infant
A PARTICULARLY INTIMATE SCENE , OF ANXIETY AND SYMBOLISM. A DISTRAUGHT YOUNG MOTHER BREAST-FEEDING AN INFANT: A SCENE PARTICULARLY INTIMATE, FULL OF TENSION AND OBSCURE SYMBOLISM. The Feeding infant, his full bloated tummy attached to two chubby legs is holding on firmly to the young woman’s arm while his dark somnolent eyes peer into the […]
Adopt an Old Master
By Matthew Moss, Art Monte-Carlo Does adopting a picture interest you? ONCE UPON A TIME THE LOCAL CITY BANK was synonymous with security and prestige. With its reassuring sense of stability and endurance represented by a granite-clad façade sustained by a row of Doric columns, the total encased in a vaguely classical Greek style of […]