After the Disaster Year of 1672, the art market collapsed. Dutch artists reverted to the more traditional, but their impact on secular themes, and genres including landscapes and still life has endured.
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With ancient origins, and relatively unusual in wooden panels, round canvases became popular in the Renaissance. Examples by Raphael, Poussin, Tiepolo, Girodet, Richard Dadd and others.
Six from the hundred stories told by the 7 women and 3 men who fled from the Black Death in Florence. With a bonus story, the most famous, at the end.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 343. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In between […]
Spectacular landscapes and details painted by John Ferguson Weir, Laurits Tuxen, Joaquín Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, Théo van Rysselberghe, and others.
Exquisite Arabic Muslim art and architecture in Granada, painted in topographic views, and by Franz von Lenbach, Henri Regnault, Martín Rico, Childe Hassam, Tom Roberts and others.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In between […]
Originally a designer of wallpaper and book illustrator, his strikingly original paintings accompany works by Zola and Charles Baudelaire.
Watermills by Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema, and a selection of windmills by Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, and a later copy by John Constable.
Later examples as it declined in popularity, from David Teniers the Younger, Gerard ter Borch, and most recently from Claude-Joseph Vernet and Joseph Stella.
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