Dose of Art #171: Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Winter (1566)
Compared to the other seasons Arcimboldo painted, ‘King’ Winter posed a challenge as it lacked the flowers of Spring, the […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
Compared to the other seasons Arcimboldo painted, ‘King’ Winter posed a challenge as it lacked the flowers of Spring, the […]
As we saw a couple of days ago with Isaac Levitan’s Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park the end of the 19thth […]
Carl Hofverberg was a Swedish painter whose most famous work is this one. In fact, he didn’t make any other […]
Levitan lived in Moscow, but when after a failed assassination attempt on Alexander II in May 1879 the Russian Empire […]
This is the version hanging in the Museum of fine arts in Brussels, Belgium but other versions exist (Claus made […]
Flowers in a Jug was made around the same time as yesterdays St. John the Baptist. At first sight, there’s […]
We saw De’ Roberti’s Saint Jerome a couple of days ago. This is another sain; John the Baptist. At the […]
Chardin made this painting some 35 years before yesterdays coffeepot and together with its companion piece The Buffet it marked […]
The painting once belonged to the French critic Philippe Burty, whose friends called it “a marvel, this little picture, in […]
I love the title, but the person who came up with it clearly had no imagination as it is just […]