Jacquemart de Hesdin, Pseudo-Jacquemart, Master of Boucicault and Haincelin de Hagenau (Master of Bedford), Grandes Heures du Duc de Berry, fol. 96r., 1409. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. After last week’s saunter through the twelve calendar months of the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, as currently exhibited at the Château de Chantilly, andContinue reading “256 – Larger than last time”
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255 – Come on in! Let the Good Times begin…
The Limbourg Brothers, January, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1411-16. Musée Condé, Chantilly. After a wonderful week in Liverpool with Artemisia, I’ve just been to Chantilly, about half an hour by train from Paris, to see a remarkable exhibition developed around an even more remarkable manuscript: Les Très Riches Heures duContinue reading “255 – Come on in! Let the Good Times begin…”
254 – Joseph Wright, changing your point of view
Joseph Wright of Derby, Three persons viewing The Gladiator by candle-light, 1765. Private Collection, on long term loan to The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. As my next talk, on Monday 25 August at 6pm, will look at the 18th century art in the Walker Art Gallery I thought that today I would think about oneContinue reading “254 – Joseph Wright, changing your point of view”
The Annunciation, again (again)
Veit Stoss, The Annunciation, 1517-18, St Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg. Another repost, as I’m on holiday in Shetland (although for obvious reasons I wrote this before I left home). As my talk, this Monday 4 August at 6pm, will be particularly concerned with Duccio’s Annunciation, I thought I’d look back to a far different version of the narrativeContinue reading “The Annunciation, again (again)”
Still Triumphing…
Bartolomé Bermejo, St Michael Triumphs over the Devil, 1468. The National Gallery, London Today I’m reposting something from the early days of this Blog. It was written on the very first day of Lockdown 1 – the day that everyone in the UK was told to stay at home. I’ve gone back to this one because theContinue reading “Still Triumphing…”
253 – A vision, closer than you think
Carlo Crivelli, The Vision of the Blessed Gabriele, probably about 1489. The National Gallery, London. One of the most dramatic vistas I’ve ever seen in a museum is new – and it is one of the splendours of the new hang of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London. Indeed, I’ve been usingContinue reading “253 – A vision, closer than you think”
252 – Beauty and the Beast
Netherlandish or French, The Madonna and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret, about 1510. The National Gallery, London. My first talk about the newly refurbished Sainsbury wing, this Monday, 30 June at 6pm, is entitled Opening up the North. There are various reasons for choosing this title, which I will discuss during the talk itself.Continue reading “252 – Beauty and the Beast”
251 – Heaven brought down to earth
Cimabue, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels, about 1280-85. The National Gallery, London. I confess that I have always been slightly dubious about the status of ‘Cimabue’ in the History of Art. After all, only one of his works is documented, and that is a mosaic: how can you establish an artist’s oeuvre onContinue reading “251 – Heaven brought down to earth”
Take two: remarkable women
Artemisia Gentileschi, Madonna and Child, c. 1613-14. Galleria Spada, Rome. Artemisia Gentileschi truly was a remarkable woman, and a great artist. When I first posted this blog (in the Autumn of 2020) I had already written about her twice (Picture Of The Day 17 and POTD 69), but she is always worth coming back to.Continue reading “Take two: remarkable women”
250 – What’s in a name?
Victor Hugo, The Cheerful Castle, c. 1847. Maisons de Victor Hugo Paris/Guernsey. This week – Monday 2 June at 6pm, to be precise – I am looking forward to talking about the truly astonishing drawings by Victor Hugo in the Royal Academy’s aptly named exhibition Astonishing Things. If I’m honest, I went to see itContinue reading “250 – What’s in a name?”
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