Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 – Venezia, 1822) Napoleon, 1806 (detalj) Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Den som på sin vei inn i Brera-galleriet har spasert gjennom dets staselige gårdsrom, kan vanskelig ha unngått å legge merke til Canovas store bronsestatue av Napoleon, som ble plassert der i 1808. Det den spaserende kanskje ikke har visst, er […]
Les mer»Agnieszka Traczewska: Leszek Kolakowski
Les mer»Detail of an Athena Parthenos. Roman artwork sculpted in marble between 130 and 150 AD. It’s a copy of a 11 metres-high Greek original of gold and ivory, sculpted by Phidias for the Parthenon (Athens) between 447 and 438 BC. The helmet crest is the result of a 17th-century restoration. (Prado, Madrid)
Les mer»Pieter Brueghel the Younger, A Flemish Village in Winter with the Massacre of the Innocents, oil on oak panel, 122 by 170 cm. Estimate: 2,500,000—3,500,000. Sold for £4,633,250 av Sotheby’s.
Les mer»Robert Adamson Mrs Elizabeth (Johnstone) Hall, Newhaven fishwife. (1843-1846). The fishwives of Newhaven were famous for both their beauty and confidence. They carried the fish their men had caught in baskets on their backs up to Edinburgh to sell it. Whenever storms at sea made the fishing especially dangerous and the price of fish rose, […]
Les mer»Skagen, sommeren 2009, foto/copyright: Christine Mohn.
Les mer»Rafael Raphael, La Donna Velata (Kvinne med slør) 1516. Galleria Palatina, Firenze. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael was famed as a painter of portraits and altarpieces. He was commissioned to paint several rooms of the Vatican’s Papal apartments. Raphael’s work as a painter and architect was a major influence of the […]
Les mer»Moses med hakekors: En kopi av Michelangelos statue står oppstilt i Hans Tavsens park på Nørrebro i København. Det står så uskyldig på kommunenes hjemmeside at dette er et trivelig sted hvor man kan slappe av fra det pulserende liv. Nå er Moses utstyrt med hakekors, av noen som ønsker å si hva de mener […]
Les mer»John George Brown (American, b. England, 1831-1913). The Longshoremen’s Noon, 1879. Oil on canvas. 33 1/4 × 50 1/4 in. (84.5 x 127.6 cm). Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund 00.4. © Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Les mer»Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) Josiah Hawes (1808–1901) [Two women posed with a chair], ca. 1850
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