Dose of Art #154: Peter Paul Rubens – A View of ‘Het Steen’ in the Early Morning (c. 1636)
I’m a great admirer of Rubens as there is such a variety in his work. Most of the paintings he […]
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Dose of Art #153: Constantin Meunier- The Return of the Coal Miners (c. 1850-1900)
Meunier was a painter an sculptor who started out working on religious themes. When he visited the Belgian mining areas […]
Dose of Art #152: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato – Virgin Mary (c. 1640-1650)
“Ultramarine blue is a colour noble, beautiful, and perfect beyond all other colours, and there is nothing that could be […]
Dose of Art #151: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato – Self-portrait (c. 1650)
Few public commissions by Sassoferrato exist, but he left over 300 paintings. His work was very popular in the 19th […]
Dose of Art #150: Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream (1899-1900)
When asked what the painting was about Homer replied: “I regret very much that I have painted a picture that […]
Dose of Art #149: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
Almost 35 years before yesterdays self-portrait, Renoir painted Bal du Moulin de la Galette. It depicts a typical Sunday at […]
Dose of Art #148: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Self-portrait (1910)
Renoir was 69 years old when he painted this portrait of himself. In 1907, he had moved to the warmer […]
Dose of Art #147: Joshua Reynolds – The Archers (1769)
When asked to make a double portrait of Lord Sydney (on the left) and Colonel John Dyke Acland (on the […]
Dose of Art #146: Pablo Picasso – Les Femmes d’Alger version O (1955)
For some reason, yesterdays painting Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Eugène Delacroix inspired other painters to make their own version […]
Dose of Art #145: Eugène Delacroix – Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement / Women of Algiers in their Apartment (1834)
Delacroix was a Romantic painter with a longing for the exotic. He visited Spain and Morocco shortly after the French […]