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New York, Museum of Modern Art In 1883, Monet rented a house in Giverny, about 18 miles from Rouen. Seven years later his financial position was such that he felt able to buy the property enabling him and his second wife Alice to continue with the creation of a magnificent garden which, in 1893, they … Read more
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art John Singer Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 to expatriate American parents and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in the studio of the preeminent portraitist in France, Charles Carolus-Duran. He practiced as a modestly successful portrait painter in Paris until this particular work caused … Read more
Paris, Musée du Louvre Fra Angelico began life with the much more earthly name, Guido di Pietro. He was already an established artist when he joined the Dominican order around 1420, taking the name Fra Giovanni (Brother John). Receiving important commissions for his own monastery, San Domenico in Fiesole, as well as other Dominican houses, … Read more
New York, Frick Collection In 1524 Holbein painted a portrait of the great humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus, now in the Louvre. Both painter and subject were then living in the Swiss city of Basel, one of the intellectual powerhouses of Europe. But soon afterwards both Holbein and Erasmus (an accomplished fence sitter during the testing … Read more
Paris, Musée du Louvre On 12 October 1537, Queen Jane of England, the third wife of King Henry VIII gave birth to a son – an heir to the Tudor dynasty. But celebrations were short-lived. The birth had been difficult and twelve days later Jane was dead. Within a week of the queen’s death enquiries … Read more
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Faced with an onerous task foisted on him by Jupiter, Paris made a fateful choice which led directly to the Trojan War. It all started when someone forgot to invite Eris, the goddess of discord, to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Angered by this slight she arrived … Read more
London, National Gallery There are very few works by Caspar David Friedrich outside Germany or Eastern Europe so it is good to be able to see this small painting on the walls of the National Gallery. Friedrich’s landscapes were rarely a precise representation of an actual place; rather he utilised his many sketches of hills, … Read more
London, National Gallery In his Lives of the Artists, the sixteenth-century painter, commentator, and biographer Giorgio Vasari gives us a rather bleak portrayal of Paolo Uccello as a monomaniac, so obsessed with his studies of the finer points of linear perspective that, in Vasari’s opinion, other aspects of his art suffered. ‘Such details may be … Read more
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The tale of Oedipus has most of the classic ingredients one would expect of one of the Greek myths: tragedy, cruelty, mistaken identity, mysterious monsters, and, underlying it all, a Delphic prophecy wreaking a terrible burden on the hero. Oedipus was the son of King Laius of Thebes … Read more
Hamburg, Kunsthalle The Napoleonic Wars had devastated much of central Europe and Caspar David Friedrich’s homeland, the Baltic state of Pomerania, had suffered its share of devastation between the terrible years 1806 – 1814. After the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Liepzig in 1814 and the convening of the Congress of Vienna, the … Read more