Dose of Art #204 Judith Leyster – A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel (1635)
In his book Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (1964), Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message”. […]
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Dose of Art #203 Théodore Géricault – Head of a Shipwrecked Man (1818-1819)
The phenomenon of overlooking things and people that didn’t make it because of their invisibility is known as survivorship bias […]
Dose of Art #202 Edvard Munch – Death in the Sickroom (1893)
Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly infectious disease caused by bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population has been […]
Dose of Art #201: Hendrick Avercamp – Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (c. 1608)
Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) was born in Amsterdam, but lived in Kampen (a Duch city that was part of the by-then […]
Dose of Art #200: Andrea Mantegna – Judith with the Head of Holofernes (c. 1490)
The biblical story of Judith revolves around her going alone to an enemy camp and single-handedly killing their general, Holofernes […]
Dose of Art #199: Gijsbrecht Leytens – A winter landscape (c. first quarter 17th century)
Gijsberg Leytens was born in Antwerp in the year 1586. He joined the Guild of Saint Luke as a master […]
Dose of Art #198: Johannes Moreelse – Democritus (c. 1630)
Moreelse was born around 1603 in Zundert and died October 1634 during a plague epidemic in his hometown. Like Dirck […]
Dose of Art #197: Jan Gosseart – Danaë (1527)
Even in our present day (where we are used to much more) most of us will still see the erotic […]
Dose of Art #196: Hendrick ter Brugghen – Bacchante with an Ape (1627)
A bacchante is a follower of Bacchus, the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, […]
Dose of Art #195: Paulus Potter – Two Pigs in a Sty (1649)
Paulus Potter was born on November 25th, 1625 in the Dutch town of Enkhuizen. He learned to paint from his […]