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Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 31st, 2015. Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum. My son and I looking into the Garden Court at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 2015. On how Mrs. Gardner (called “Mrs. Jack” by her friends) is a “female subject” that visitors encounter when they visit the space. Roman marble throne, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, n.d. Detail of Titian Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Mrs Gardner’s presence and absence was also included in the museum...
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French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015. French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Café Volpini poster, cover and front page for Volpini exhibition, 1889. Image courtesy Wikipedia. As a result, journalists were sure to pass by the café and see the art on display. Although the Café Volpini show was a flop from an economic standpoint, the artists must have gotten some exposure by being on the fair grounds, given that an overwhelmingly impressive number of people – 28 million! To prepare for t...
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Tapestries and Social Metaphors | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Saturday, April 11th, 2015. Tapestries and Social Metaphors. Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread, Park Armory, New York, 2012-2013. Photo by James Ewing. The interconnectedness of individuals is especially apparent to me in Ann Hamilton’s installation “the event of a thread”. Of people rather than of any sort of barrier between them. You can see some videos of this installation HERE. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 1 There are several different accounts that report when some of the...
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architecture | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The Bricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. The Ziggurat of Ur (photo taken 2005). Original structure built c. 2100 BCE. Image courtesy Wikipedia via user Hardnfast. Recently I learned a few interesting points about the mudbricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. This ziggurat was built around 2100 BCE by the king Ur-nammu and his son Shulgi (see a reconstruction drawing of the structure and a map of the original complex HERE. Such fired bricks weighed up to thirty-three pounds.
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18th century | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Sunday, July 3rd, 2016. Grace Kelly’s Pressed Flowers. Grace Kelly measuring one of her flower collages, from “My Book of Flowers” (published 1980). I’ve been reading. My Book of Flowers. My Book of Flowers. Grace Kelly also explained that spacing of flowers is really important, especially when creating geometric collages that need to maintain a sense of “pristine formality.”. Grace Kelly, pressed collage like a Provençal print or a Liberty fabric, n.d. Grace Kelly, pressed collage w...
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Cleopatra and the Carpet Myth | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Friday, February 20th, 2015. Cleopatra and the Carpet Myth. Jean-Leon Gérôme, “Cleopatra and Caesar,” 1866. Today in class I showed my students the beginning of a short video clip. By Sotheby’s about Gérôme’s. The video clip mentions how Gérôme’s painting has influence on Cecil B. DeMille, who directed. Which was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor) has a great scene. Which shows the queen dramatically and unceremoniously unrolled from a rug before Caesa...
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The “Nude” Doric Column | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Wednesday, May 6th, 2015. The “Nude” Doric Column. Left: Doric column from Temple of Athena at Paestum, Italy. Right: Metropolitan Kouros, c. 600 BCE. 8220;Thus two orders were invented, one of a masculine character, without ornament, the other bearing a character which resembled the delicacy, ornament, and proportion of a female” (Vitruvius, 4:1:7). At that point, I had a student ask if the Doric order was supposed to be perceived as nude, since the Ionic order was described as clot...
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19th century | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Wednesday, February 24th, 2016. Kehinde Wiley and William Morris. My different art experiences are colliding this week in an unusual way. This past weekend I went and saw the exhibition. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Kehinde Wiley, “St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness” from “The World Stage: Jamaica. For example, the background design in. Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness. Is clearly referencing a William Morris print of birds and irises. That Morris designed in 1882.
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contemporary art | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Wednesday, February 24th, 2016. Kehinde Wiley and William Morris. My different art experiences are colliding this week in an unusual way. This past weekend I went and saw the exhibition. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Kehinde Wiley, “St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness” from “The World Stage: Jamaica. For example, the background design in. Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness. Is clearly referencing a William Morris print of birds and irises. That Morris designed in 1882.
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The Shops at Target | passport2art
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The Shops at Target. Target’s latest exclusive deal is a selection of choice products from small businesses. Their catch phrase: The Shops we fell in love with: collected and curated for you. The word curated is what interests me in the advertisement. Normally this is a term that is applied to exhibitions, galleries, and museums. This 19. Century term, derived from the word curator, means to select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition). Personally, I do not think that there ...
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