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Outdoor Children: Linden Groves - Experiencing Arcadia
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Have you ever visited a historic garden and wondered how people experienced it in the past? Ever pondered what it was like to see the landscape while on horseback? And what was it like to experience the garden at night or if you were a child or a perhaps woman in an unwieldy dress and unsuitable shoes? The Experiencing Arcadia project (by partners in garden history crime, Linden Groves and Clare Hickman. Is funded by the Finnis-Scott Foundation. And will use digital resources to look at engaging 21.
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What is truth? | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. What is an artist? The Tree House community secondhand bookshop →. Hans Leinberger, St James, c.1520-25, limewood, traces of pigment (Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum). What is the Bible, of which he wrote a small part? What does the future, the end of that faraway yet focused gaze, hold? Held together by the beautiful face, the expression, the hat and pivoting around those exquisite hands that bring our attention to the book, the centre of a star. What is an artist?
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A Foolish Virgin…we’ve all been there | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. The art of living. What is an artist? A Foolish Virgin…we’ve all been there. Martin Schongauer, Foolish Virgin (engraving, 1480s). For my first entry, I feel I should start with the image I have chosen as the header image for this blog – a copperplate engraving by the German painter-engraver Martin Schongauer, dating probably from the 1480s. We have no dates for any of Schongauer’s work except for one painting, the. Virgin and Child in a Rosebower. All the emotion of the ...
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What is an artist? | Fioritur
https://evieagain.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/what-is-an-artist
Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. A Foolish Virgin…we’ve all been there. What is an artist? Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait with a Fur Collar, 1500 (66.3 x 49cm), Alte Pinakothek, Munich. I specialise in an era when craftsmanship was very much part of being an ‘artist’ I put the word in inverted commas because it is a modern term, anachronistic to the Renaissance, the period I have researched. Even Vasari’s famous book is often mistranslated as. The Lives of the Artists. When its actual title is. As a condu...
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The Tree House community secondhand bookshop | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. The Tree House community secondhand bookshop. More soon about Bram Stoker’s. Dürer’s signature and the emotive power of art…but in the meantime, just want to highlight a new blog I’ve set up for a not-for-profit, community-focused secondhand bookshop I am planning to open in my hometown of Kenilworth, Warwickshire. You can follow my progress here: http:/ treehousesecondhandbooks.wordpress.com/. This entry was posted in General. The Tree House community secondhand bookshop.
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Victoria | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. German Sculpture and Albrecht Dürer – Oxford 29.10.13 and 05.11.13. This is for my Oxford students, though obviously for anyone else to look at too! Slides from classes I led on German sculpture of the early 16th century and on Albrecht Dürer. German Sculpture Albrecht Dürer 5.11.13. Obviously feel free to comment even … Continue reading →. The Tree House community secondhand bookshop. What is an artist? A Foolish Virgin…we’ve all been there. For my first entry, I feel I ...
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German Sculpture and Albrecht Dürer – Oxford 29.10.13 and 05.11.13 | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. German Sculpture and Albrecht Dürer – Oxford 29.10.13 and 05.11.13. This is for my Oxford students, though obviously for anyone else to look at too! Slides from classes I led on German sculpture of the early 16th century and on Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer 5.11.13. This entry was posted in General. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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Book recommendations | Fioritur
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Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. Books about the subjective experience of works of art. Pictures and Tears: a History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings. Spiral Jetta: a Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West. University of Chicago Press, 2008). The Art of Describing. University of Chicago Press, 1983). The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany. Yale University Press, 1980). Joseph Leo Koerner,. The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art. Enter your comment here.
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Dürer as Christ? | Fioritur
https://evieagain.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/durer-as-christ
Dr Victoria Mier, art historian. The Tree House community secondhand bookshop. German Sculpture and Albrecht Dürer – Oxford 29.10.13 and 05.11.13 →. This is a link for a group of students, who are interested in whether Dürer’s 1500 self-portrait really has Christlike connotations…so there is no explanation here, just wanted a place to post some images! Obviously feel free to comment even so. This entry was posted in General. The Tree House community secondhand bookshop. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. As you...