Dose of Art #164: Jean-Simeon Chardin – The Ray (c. 1725-1726)
Chardin made this painting some 35 years before yesterdays coffeepot and together with its companion piece The Buffet it marked […]
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Dose of Art #163: Jean-Simeon Chardin – Glass of Water and Coffeepot (c. 1761)
The painting once belonged to the French critic Philippe Burty, whose friends called it “a marvel, this little picture, in […]
Dose of Art #162: Frans Snyders – Still Life with Fruit, Dead Game, Vegetables, a live Monkey, Squirrel and Cat (before 1657)
I love the title, but the person who came up with it clearly had no imagination as it is just […]
Dose of Art #161: Ercole de’ Roberti – Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1474)
Saint Jerome is, along with Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine, and Saint Ambrose, one of the four doctors of […]
Dose of Art #160: Pablo Picasso – Pierrot (1918)
Most of us know only the famous Picasso paintings; Guernica, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, The Weeping Woman for example. But over […]
Dose of Art #159: Caspar David Friedrich – Das Eismeer (c. 1823 – 1824)
Let us continue with Caspar David Friedrich, whose portrait we saw yesterday. Today’s painting Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice) […]
Dose of Art #158: Caroline Bardua – portrait of Caspar David Friedrich (1810)
This is not about Carolina Bardua – a German painter who made primarily portraits – but about who she painted. […]
Dose of Art #157: Titian – Tityus (c. 1548-1549)
When Odyssey visited the underworld he not only saw Sisyphus but also Tityus: “I saw Tityos also, son of the […]
Dose of Art #156: Titian – Sisyphus (c. 1548-1549)
King Sisyphus had tried to trick the Gods on numerous occasions and even cheat death (he failed), and Zeus decided […]
Dose of Art #155: Umberto Boccioni – Dinamismo di un ciclista / Dynamism of a Cyclist (1913)
“We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, […]