John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1830-31. Tate Britain, London. I’m so sorry, I don’t know what happened yesterday. I started editing this post, then went out to dinner… Later in the evening I found out that it had been published somehow, without my knowledge! Given that you have to click ‘publish’ twice, and IContinue reading “Take Two: The (Definitive) End of the Rainbow”
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261 – Joining the dots
Anna Boch, During the Elevation, 1893. Mu.ZEE, Ostend. I confess that I have never visited the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, despite the fact that it has the most extraordinary collection of paintings: before the opening of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, for example, this was the best collection of his work. The majority ofContinue reading “261 – Joining the dots”
236 – Rubens, before Constable
Peter Paul Rubens, A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, probably 1636. The National Gallery, London. After five weeks talking about the Italian Renaissance I’m going to take a break and head forward to the 19th Century. There is a direct line to be drawn, I think, from Constable, via Monet, to VanContinue reading “236 – Rubens, before Constable”
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