Read more about the article Visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, part 3
Carlo Crivelli, St. George and the Dragon, 1470. Gardner Museum, Boston. Photo copyright © 2020 Dianne L. Durante

Visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, part 3

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…

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Innovators in Sculpture & Innovators in Painting

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…

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Artist-Entrepreneurs

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…

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Looking at Leonardo’s St. Jerome

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…

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Read more about the article Painting Before 1300 AD (6): Medieval
Fresco of a lion from San Pedro de Arlanza, ca. 1220. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters. Photo: MetMuseum.org http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471061

Painting Before 1300 AD (6): Medieval

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…

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Painting Before 1300 AD (5): Greek

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…

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