Alexander Ivanov, The Bay of Naples near Castellmare (1846) Alexander Ivanov, On the Shore of the Bay of Naples (1850s) The Bay of Naples has traditionally been a favourite with painters. Peter...
Alexey Tyranov was born in 1801. Prior to going to the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg he worked alongside his brother as an icon painter. At the Academy he studied under Alexey Venetsianov, and from...
As I was reading Mikhail Romm‘s book on directing in cinema, I came across a chapter on shots and framing, in which Romm illustrates different types of shots through the well-known paintings. I ...
Titian, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1533, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy A rather sombre interpretation of the subject of Adoration by Titian directs the viewer to the bottom right corner of t...
El Greco, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1605 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain). A variation on this theme was painted by El Greco in 1610 and is now housed at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . &nb...
Alessandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1475/76 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) This painting was commissioned to Botticelli by a Florentine Gaspar di Zanobi del Lama for the church of Santa M...
Albrecht Durer, Adoration of the Magi, 1504 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy) Contrary to many precedent and following artists who depicted the Magi presenting their gifts in the dark surroundings of ...
The origins of this post date back to July 2008. I went to London and visited Victoria and Albert Museum. I spent most of my time there admiring sculptures by Rodin, Canova and Lord Leighton, and it w...
Update: a National Geographic video report about Nicola Barbatelli’s discovered portrait of Leonardo. Yes, again on the subject of Leonardo’s portraits, for there is an exhibition currentl...
The Arts world was all shook up on Monday 23rd of February 2009 with the news that a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci was discovered by historian Nicola Barbatelli in the village of Acerenza in Basilicat...