October 2017 – Page 3

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun had two things going against her. First of all, just before the start of the […]

Historical paintings usually depict either a victory of some sort or a past injustice. A good example of the last […]

Even in this early work by Turner, you can see his love of light and colours which will become so […]

Google ‘Titian Venus’ and you will find many results discussing this painting (more than for comparable or even more famous […]

Most works by Rubens were done on commission; this one was done for Ferdinando II de’ Medici. After it was […]

I have seen various interpretations for this painting, but somehow none of them is convincing. What do we see? A […]

A scene of an event that happened almost 30 years before Copley painted it. Brook Watson was a 14-year-old orphan […]

What better painting for the October the 4th than one of St. Francis? Although we know St. Francis for his […]

I think we can all agree this painting is not in the same league as any of the other works […]

Frans Snyders was a Flemish painter from Antwerp specializing in (dead) animals. It is a genre I don’t really like […]