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Hieronymus Bosch: Afternoon Delight
Like many titles given to works of art, The Garden of Earthly Delights does not describe the subject of this painting at all. Artists normally did not give titles to their creations. Other people...
View ArticleJoachim Patinir: Moonage Daydream
Joachim Patinir created this image just as landscape painting was coming into its own as a separate and distinct subject in art for the first time since the ancient Roman era. This painting by Patinir...
View ArticleDürer’s Snapshot
It looks like this refined watercolor of a clump of turf was done on the spot – the artist, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, sitting outside in a meadow; however, Dürer painted it in his...
View ArticleGerard David: Oh Man, That’s Gotta Hurt!
This large and impressive painting by Gerard David stops nearly all visitors to the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, Belgium in their tracks. Viewers look upon the two large panels with a mixture of...
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Just a Second: Mitre
Mitre (noun) A mitre is a pointed hat worn by bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church. In Jacques Daret’s painting of the Visitation, the moment when Mary, pregnant with Jesus meets...
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Seeing Double Dürers
Albrect Dürer created this lovely woodcut of the shepherds adoring the baby Jesus on the night he was born as part of a series that illustrates the Life of the Virgin. The print demonstrates Dürer’s...
View ArticleHieronymus Bosch’s Butt Music
Late one night, a young woman named Amelia, a college student at Oklahoma Christian University, noticed that Hieronymus Bosch painted music on the rear end of a figure in the scene of Hell in his...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer Northern Renaissance Artist Albrecht Dürer, German painter, printmaker and theorist, was born on May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, where he lived for most of his life. His father, Albrecht...
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Just a Second: Grisaille
French for the word gray, grisaille is the technique of painting in a muted monochrome palette. As would be expected, this technique often was used for the underpainting of a work of art; however, in...
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Bruegel, Williams and Hubris
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams (1962) According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake...
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