Murder and St Nicholas
Our last two seasonal art posts have been about the Nativity, now we’re turning to St Nicholas. This is stained glass from the south...
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thesufferingartist
- Dec 12, 2020
- 2 min
Rembrandt and Joseph's Dream
This week I tried to choose a nativity-related piece that isn’t well known. It’s a Rembrandt called Joseph’s Dream or sometimes Dream of...
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thesufferingartist
- Dec 3, 2020
- 2 min
The Cestello Annunciation
The Annunciation has to be one of the most frequently recurring subjects in European art, which made it horribly difficult to settle on...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
The Alexander Mosaic
This will be our first post about a mosaic. I had a mild falling out with mosaics in the second grade when I made a 12x12 of an erupting...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Three Davids
We haven’t compared pieces lately so this week we’ll contrast three sculptures that draw on the Biblical story of David’s fight with the...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Violent Triumph or Just Triumph?
If you find the gore of this piece shocking, so did the patron who commissioned it. After one look he almost didn’t make his promised...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Add Melodrama to your Halloween Season
This is Henry Fuseli’s 1781 piece called The Nightmare. Obviously I posted this because it’s a great seasonal fit with Halloween but it’s...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Modern Surrealism in the 16th Century
I’ll wager that the name Hieronymus Bosch is not on the tip of anybody’s tongue. But, then again, maybe it is. He may have painted in the...
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thesufferingartist
- Nov 24, 2020
- 2 min
Florence, Cellini, and Medici
Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture completed in 1554 for the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence, Italy. The sculptor...
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thesufferingartist
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
Lament for a Stolen Rembrandt
This is Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633), the only seascape Rembrandt ever painted. The story he drew on appears in the New Testament...
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thesufferingartist
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
The Rock-Hewn Churches of Ethiopia
We’ve never done a post on architecture. But as far as I’m concerned, this is sculpture rather than architecture. That’s because The...
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thesufferingartist
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
About that Wheat field
Wheatfield with Crows was once thought to be Vincent van Gogh’s very last work. I’ve even heard it described as his ‘suicide note.’...
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thesufferingartist
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Bruegel the Peasant Painter
Pieter Bruegel has long been labeled ‘the peasant painter,’ and not because of his personal socioeconomic status. It’s because peasant...
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thesufferingartist
- Sep 4, 2020
- 3 min
The Ghent Altarpiece
Jan (& Hubert) van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece (1432) is also known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. It’s a cinematic series of hinged...
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thesufferingartist
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
Bernini's First
I hope Michelangelo won’t be jealous at this but Gian Lorenzo Bernini deserves to be considered one of history’s best sculptors. This is...
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thesufferingartist
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
Lady Godiva and Her Naked Ride
I’ve wanted to use the word ribald in one of these art posts for a while now so here’s a moderately ribald painting about the English...
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thesufferingartist
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
Degas, The Interior
I don’t know how you feel about impressionism but Edgar Degas was one of its leading lights and he didn’t care for the term very much....
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thesufferingartist
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
Bacchus and Ariadne
If you remember mythology from school, you may recall the name Bacchus, god of wine. He’s one of two central characters in this painting...
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thesufferingartist
- Jul 25, 2020
- 2 min
Caravaggio's Conversion of St Paul
There aren’t too many artists more interesting than Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. He was named for Michael the Archangel but his...
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thesufferingartist
- Jul 17, 2020
- 2 min
The School of Athens
The School of Athens (1511) may be the most famous fresco in the world after the Sistine Chapel ceiling. That’s fitting since they were...
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