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Growing Pains at the National Gallery
The Blog of the Courtier —
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The National Gallery of Art here in Washington is probably the only part of the Smithsonian Institution I visit with any regularity. While not as large as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, its comprehensive collection of Old Master paintings is a great joy to visit. The core of the collection came from ...1 day ago -
Newsy: Quilt Index expands and upgrades
Craft Gossip —
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Amy E. Milne, Executive Director of The Alliance for American Quilts organization has some great news for quilters and quilt history buffs. They have added 10 projects and have upgraded their website to include zoom and comparison tools, saying, The zoom tool allows users to move in close to a quilt’s surface and ...2 days ago -
Murillos "Inmaculada de los Venerables"
The Blog of the Courtier —
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Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, celebrating the Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without the stain of Original Sin. It is a teaching long-held by Christians, but which was only formally declared a dogma of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1854. Those interested in the theological ...2 days ago -
Folk Art: New Joseph Hidley Painting Comes to Light?
New York History —
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A newly discovered piece of folk art appears to be the early work of Rensselaer County artist Joseph H. Hidley. The work, a small graphite drawing signed "Drawn by Joseph Hidley, 1841, age 11," was purchased at a Massachusetts auction by Halsey Munson, a Decatur, Illinois a dealer in early American furniture, ...2 days ago -
Dorothy Dene - New Cross Eliza Doolittle?
Transpontine —
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Ada Alice Pullen (1859-1899) was one of several sisters from an impoverished family in New Cross whose faces stare out from pictures in art galleries across the world. Of these the most famous was Alice, who renamed herself Dorothy Dene, and was the main model for the painter Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) from the ...3 days ago -
Teach history with these comic collections
Instructify —
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BY BILL FERRIS Today we’ve got two resources dealing with comics for you: Before political cartoons devolved into crude drawings depicting a guy wearing a T-shirt labeled “TAXES” and smashing something with a hammer, they were elaborately drawn works of art, and often featured more text than some of ...3 days ago -
Project Officer, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Hebrew Manuscripts, British Library
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The British Librarys Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts project is set to revolutionize access to the extraordinary riches of the Librarys collections, making them easily accessible for the first time to art historians, other scholars, and the general public. This has been achieved by adding digital images and ...3 days ago -
On the Future of Art History (& the Humanities) Outside the Walls
Smarthistory: The Blog —
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Last week, Beth and I delivered a paper on the future of higher education at an experimental conference in ScienceSim , an Open Sim virtual world supported by Intel. The conference went off quite well thanks to Shenlei Winkler , its thoughtful and extremely capable organizer. We titled our presentation “The ...4 days ago -
Ilya Repin: Russias open secret.
Black on Grey on White —
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Mid 2008 saw me discover an unforgettable artist. Ilya Repin. For days, my mind pondered on how I could do justice to such a master using words, my words. In all my wisdom, it then struck me … I couldnt! A master’s work (just like any other piece of art) has to be seen and savoured by each of us, individually. ...4 days ago -
Pre-Histories of Famous Things: Art Nouveau
Ptak Science Books —
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JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 867 This may well be the very first book illustrated in thestyle known as Art Nouveau --Arthur Mackmurdo’s Wren’s City Churches —coming a dozenyears before the revolutionary Gismonda poster of Alphonse Mucha. The 1895poster by Mucha caused an enormous stir, so much so that ...5 days ago -
Prehistoric Surrealism, Part 6: Muellers Anatomy, 1845
Ptak Science Books —
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JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 866 This image occurs in Johannes Mueller’s Manuel dePhysiologie (translated from the German editions of 1838-1840, Handbuch derPhysiologie des Menschen ) and—removed from context—looks to me as though itcould belong in a Surrealist Salon in 1915 as part of a ...5 days ago -
Hello Kitty x Misha at JapanLA!
Hello Kitty Junkie —
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MISHA X HELLO KITTY BOX SET RELEASE PARTY & SIGNING THIS SAT! Seriously!?!?!?! I did not know Misha was going to make prints of her paintings!!! Or a very limited boxed set (cannot wait to see what this box looks like either)! o_O If you attended Three Apples , it was pretty hard not to notice (and adore) ...5 days ago -
Shenandoah Valley
Visual Thoughts Photography —
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A view of the Shenandoah Valley from the Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. © 2009 D L Ennis, All rights reserved. NOTE: Permission for the use of my images is granted for personal websites and blogs but is to include a link back to this site and proper credit given to me, D L Ennis. Link to be ...5 days ago -
Pre-Histories of Famous Things: the Cat in the Hat
Ptak Science Books —
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JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 864 I’ve written here earlier on the 236 different words used tocreate The Cat in the Hat ( Dr. Seuss and the 236 Words That Changed reading Forever), a book which I found to be a major accomplishment, a verydifficult undertaking with superb outcome. That is why I ...6 days ago -
Holiday Books: Paris
NYT > Theater —
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“The History of Paris in Painting.”6 days ago -
Not Safe for Museums (Seeing Things One at a Time)
Peripheral Vision —
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A recreation of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sky Above Clouds IV was painted on a concrete wall outside of my 4th grade classroom. At some point I had learned it was a work of art, but that concept was meaningless until I went to the Art Institute with my parents on my birthday. We came across the painting while ...6 days ago -
Interview with Benjamin Binstock
New Books In History —
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Ben Binstock ’s Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice (Routledge, 2009) is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. It does what all good history books should do–tell you something you thought you knew but in fact don’t–but it does it ON EVERY PAGE. I ...6 days ago -
Times Bad Hair Day: 1540
Ptak Science Books —
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JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 863 This image proves that even Time itself can have a bad hairday, from time to time. The woodcut imageappears as the printers mark (of Simonem Colineum, or Simon de Colines) in thesecond volume of Johann Arboreus’ Theosophia, complectens difficillorum …, whichwas ...6 days ago -
Evaline Ness Collection Auction
Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog —
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Have you ever heard of Evaline Ness ? She was an illustrator of many children’s books during the mid-20th century period. At a time when most illustration was still being done in a style of literal realism, Ness was among that group of stylistic pioneers whose work still influences the look of illustration today. ...6 days ago -
# Salvador Dalis Dream of Venus
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Here is Salvador Dalis Pavilion for the New York World Fair of 1939. It is officially called Dream of Venus but Dali calls it Twenty thousand legs under the see in reference to Jules Verne. Inside it, is a pool where a lot of representation of femininity are exhibited.6 days ago
