December 2017 – Page 2

St. Jerome was a popular subject for paintings and he has been painted in many ways and styles. This one […]

We have seen Shishkin’s work before, and this is another great example of his Russian landscapes.

Sir Thomas More is now well known as a scholar and the writer of Utopia, but he was also a […]

It’s a pity FB can’t show the real size of this painting because it is almost lifesize. Because of its […]

What a difference with yesterdays portrait. Throughout his life, Rembrandt made numerous self-portraits. He had just turned 50 when he […]

It is interesting to see how painters portrait themselves in their paintings. It is like an early version of our […]

Definitely an iconic image of rural life, but critics interpreted it in various ways. According to Wikipedia: “Iowans were furious […]

Bellini made a number of portraits of young men. Most of them are looking to the left, like this […]

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has the perfect description: “The Fog Warning is a painting with a narrative, though […]

We don’t know much about Gijsbrechts, except that he was Flemish and was born in the 17th century. We do […]