Dose of Art #134: Ambrosius Bosschaert – Still-Life of Flowers (1614)
Made in 1614 it still looks crisp with those lovely colors and detailed flowers and insects. Ambrosius, who was born […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
Made in 1614 it still looks crisp with those lovely colors and detailed flowers and insects. Ambrosius, who was born […]
Pissarro lived in Pontoise between 1866 and 1883. During this period he painted a number of paintings of the village […]
Millet herself gave the following reason why she made the painting: “The idea for The Angelus came to me because […]
The German painter Dürer has made three self-portraits, and this is the second one, made when he was 26. He […]
Goya made a series of paintings for the four seasons. For winter he chose a snowstorm. Nothing romantic about it; […]
Back to Bosch. With all those animals, people and weird little details it is easy to overlook the strangeness of […]
A short break from Bosch. Today is Epiphany (‘Drie Koningen’ in Dutch). As with many festivities (former) pagan rituals were […]
The right panel –The Last Judgement– shows some very horrific scenes of people getting tortured. And again we see this […]
We have seen an example of real vs fantasy animals, of his attention to detail and now it is time […]
The more you look at The Garden of Earthly Delights, the more wondrous it gets. The colour, the forms and […]