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1000 Paintings of Genius
Art Across Time: From the Middle Ages to the Digital Age of Instagram
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The Enigmatic Genius of Johannes Vermeer: Unlocking the Secrets of a Master Painter
Vermeer revolutionised the way in which we use and make paint and his colour application techniques predate some of those used by the impressionists nearly two centuries later. Girl with a Pearl Earring remains to this day his greatest masterpiece.
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Le Baroque: le goût du mouvement, de la dramatisation, de l’exubérance décorative
La période baroque s’étend du début du XVIIe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Réponse des artistes à l’exigence de grandeur solennelle prônée par l’Église catholique de l’après concile de Trente, l’art baroque, par sa monumentalité et son emphase, séduisit les grandes cours européennes.
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Barock: Die Vorliebe für Bewegung, Dramatik und überschwängliche Dekorationen
Die Barockzeit dauerte vom Anfang des siebzehnten bis zur Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Jahrhunderts. Die Barockkunst war die Antwort der Künstler auf die Forderung der katholischen Kirche nach feierlicher Pracht nach dem Konzil von Trient und zog mit ihrer Monumentalität und Prunkhaftigkeit die großen europäischen Höfe in ihren Bann.
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Baroque: A taste for movement, dramatisation and decorative exuberance
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts.
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Musings… and Matisse
How does one gain immortality these days? No, this is actually a serious question! For the Ancient Egyptians, they took the important person’s corpse, removed the intestines and the other major decomposable parts (excepting the heart of course… every rookie embalmer knows that!), dried the body out with natron*, stuffed it with sawdust, wrapped it in linen, placed it in a couple of coffins, and then put it inside a large sarcophagus**. Easy. Then, they left the now-mummified body, erected a gigantic marking stone (obviously why the pyramids were built), and voila: today practically everybody and their grandmother knows the name of Tutankhamen. Not bad for a 5,000 year-old mummy!…
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