I’ve posted earlier on my five favorites from the Gardner Museum (see here), but those were chosen from artworks I found on the Net. In August 2020, I visited the Gardner…
I've posted earlier on my five favorites from the Gardner Museum (see here), but those were chosen from artworks I found on the Net. In August 2020, I visited the…
The video of this post includes samples pages from both books. Innovators in Sculpture: 6x9 inches, 162 pp. including 385 color illustrations. Available from Amazon; other stores via Ingram (9781088090497…
Who'd have expected that the world's best collection of stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) would be within an hour of Disney World? The Morse Museum also has the…
In 2019, I emailed 156 art-related items to my members of my free Sunday Recommendations list. (To join, just ask me: DuranteDianne@gmail.com.) For supporters, I recommended 52 more items. The items…
Artist-Entrepreneurs: Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Parrish from Amazon in print or as a Kindle book (scroll down to From the Publisher for sample pages), or from other stores via Ingram…
A video of this post is here. The exhibition of Leonardo’s St. Jerome at the Metropolitan Museum (7/15/19 through 10/6/2019) will probably be mobbed ... but you should go if…
With the fall of the Roman Empire in the west in 476 AD, life in Europe became (to use the pithy phrase of 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes), "nasty, brutish and…
Greek painting is a play that enthralls you with its opening act. Then you discover that the last two acts are missing, and that you can only learn the ending…
The paintings of the Minoan civilization, which flourished ca. 2800-1400 BC, are found on Crete and several other sites in the Aegean Sea. They're the first surviving paintings to show…