Albrecht Durer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) Contrary to many precedent and following artists who depicted the Magi presenting their gifts in the dark surroundings of ...
Pablo Picasso, A Girl with a Book Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the songs of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without tryin...
I cannot complain about the number of lovely presents I have received, but to have an app dedicated by Tate Britain on Twitter is very different, so many thanks for such a wonderful surprise. Admitted...
The Guardian and Tate have today initiated a discussion – half based on Twitter – about Turner vs. the Old Masters. David Solkin, the curator at Tate, walked a Guardian journalist through ...
My photo of one of the musical angels in Manchester Cathedral has just been invited to the group Anges Musiciens (‘musical angels’ in French). I thought I’d point to it those who lov...
I noted that someone was looking for “picture on The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto “. There are various editions of the book, so the covers differ accordingly. The novel itself is woven aroun...
La peinture c’est l’art d’arriver à l’âme par entremises des yeux. Si l’effet s’arrête aux yeux, le peintre n’a fait que le moindre partie du chemin. Painting...
The 1818 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Death of Leonardo, was inspired by an extract from Vasari's Lives of the Artists. ...
Liverpool – Walker Art Gallery, Victorian Art, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Although I didn’t get the chance last year to attend any events during Liverpool’s residenc...
-1- It is always interesting to observe how the media presents the “news”. When independent artists, especially not well-known, turn to Social Media and mobile technologies, journalists an...