Dose of Art #174: Titian – Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570)
EX PRAETERITO/PRAESENS PRUDENTER AGIT/NE FUTURA ACTIONẼ DETURPET reads the (barely visible) inscription: “From the experience of the past, the present […]
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Dose of Art #173: René Magritte – The Portrait (1935)
It could have been just a still-life – be it a modern one – if it wasn’t for the eye […]
Dose of Art #172: Rembrandt van Rijn – Slaughtered Ox (1655)
Slaughtered Ox is a peculiar painting by Rembrandt who we all know from his spectacular The Nightwatch. At 95.5 by […]
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 […]
Dose of Art #170: Ilya Repin – The Unexpected Visitor (c. 1884-1888)
As we saw a couple of days ago with Isaac Levitan’s Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park the end of the 19thth […]
Dose of Art #169: Carl Hofverberg – Trompe l´oeil 1737 (1737)
Carl Hofverberg was a Swedish painter whose most famous work is this one. In fact, he didn’t make any other […]
Dose of Art #168: Isaac Levitan – Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park (1879)
Levitan lived in Moscow, but when after a failed assassination attempt on Alexander II in May 1879 the Russian Empire […]
Dose of Art #167: Emile Claus – Koeien bij het oversteken van de Leie / Cows crossing the Lys (1899)
This is the version hanging in the Museum of fine arts in Brussels, Belgium but other versions exist (Claus made […]
Dose of Art #166: Hans Memling – Flowers in a Jug (c. 1480)
Flowers in a Jug was made around the same time as yesterdays St. John the Baptist. At first sight, there’s […]
Dose of Art #165: Ercole de’ Roberti – St John the Baptist (c. 1478-1480)
We saw De’ Roberti’s Saint Jerome a couple of days ago. This is another sain; John the Baptist. At the […]