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This Is the Great Goya
Here he is in his studio in Madrid in about 1795: He’s doing your portrait. You have just walked into his studio and are standing where he showed you, in front of that enormous window—one of the… more →
The Best Artists
This Is the Great Goya
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100swallows wrote 2 weeks ago: Here he is in his studio in Madrid in about 1795: He’s doing your portrait. You have just walk … more →
What are they up to out there?
Jenn Ressmann wrote 2 months ago: Many artists and crafters, thankfully, create from trash and unwanted items. Making junk into the de … more →
Canvas of self expressions - Eight
rb wrote 2 months ago: “The man who said ‘I would rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People … more →
Murillo's Homey Virgin
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100swallows wrote 2 months ago: Murillo is one of the great colorists of the world. Look at this beautiful Virgin and Child, now in … more →
What I'm doing in the office this week...
Jenn Ressmann wrote 2 months ago: Shreddin How about some shredding? It’s coming into fall – cooler and we stay inside mor … more →
Was Michelangelo a Coward?
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100swallows wrote 4 months ago: A deserter he certainly was. Florence was under siege and the authorities put Michelangelo in charge … more →
Canvas of self expressions - Six
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rb wrote 5 months ago: “I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am” … more →
Who Designed St. Peter's?
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100swallows wrote 5 months ago: There was a contest and Bramante won it (1506) with this design: It was a simple (Greek) cross insi … more →
Bernini's Statue of the Man Who Speared Christ
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100swallows wrote 5 months ago: Old St. Peter’s Basilica, the one that was torn down, was full of venerable relics. One of the … more →
An Inquisition Trial by Goya
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100swallows wrote 7 months ago: Surely the best Inquisition trial scene ever painted. Inquisition Tribunal (46 X 73cm), in the Acad … more →
Camille O'Sullivan at the Soho Theatre
gronya wrote 7 months ago: I’m still on the mailing lists for three or four theatres in London. Sometimes I hate reading … more →
Friday Night Concert "Two-fer": Robert Palmer and Marvin Gaye
Paul Sonderman wrote 7 months ago: Takes Every Kind of People to Make the World Go Round I started searching for a live music clip to p … more →
great artists
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artonpieceofmind wrote 7 months ago: keeping it together waitingplaceweb tangleweb2 amy casey amy casey is a painter based in cleveland, … more →
El Greco's Best
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100swallows wrote 7 months ago: What’s this picture about? The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco, in the Church of S … more →
Before El Greco Was El Greco
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100swallows wrote 8 months ago: El Greco didn’t always paint tall, eerie, twisted figures. He wasn’t always so extravag … more →
Copying Michelangelo
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100swallows wrote 8 months ago: “Now that’s what I call style!” one of them said. It might have been Vasari, Cellini, Pontormo … more →
Angel of Barnsley
garethcook wrote 8 months ago: Kate Rusby: Voice of T'Angel If you were to be marooned on a desert island for an indefinite per … more →
Michelangelo's Last Paintings
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100swallows wrote 8 months ago: They are on the walls of a chapel next to the Sistine, closed to the public and rarely seen. This is … more →
LOVE > money
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