At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)

“Christ’s mother Mary (modelled by Rosetti’s sister, Christina) is shown here as a girl. She works on an embroidery with her mother (portrayed by Rosetti’s mother, Frances). In the background, Mary’s father is shown pruning a vine. The painting is full of Christian symbolism. The palm branch and thorn on the floor represent Christ. The…

Sandro Botticelli: La Primavera, Spring (1481–82)

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Evgeny Kissin Plays Beethoven

“According to Severini, the environment is optically determined and hence fluid, and the human figure is merely a part, albeit an inseparable part, of that metamorphic reality. In this canvas and others the cadences of the swirling motion of the dance and the dancer’s costume are compared with those of the sea’s movement. The large…

Edouard Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

“Opened a decade or so earlier, the Folies-Bergère had rapidly become one of most popular music halls and places of entertainment in Paris. Manet frequented it with friends and made sketches on site. However, the final work was painted entirely in his studio, where a barmaid named Suzon came to pose. She is the painting’s still centre. Her…

Hao Rao: Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola

“Sunday Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola are a series of open-air concerts held at the Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin from May to September. They continue the long-term tradition initiated by Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki, an eminent Polish pianist and teacher, in 1954. The recitals are an extraordinary opportunity to listen to performances by outstanding Polish and…

Max Bruch: Acht Stücke, op.83

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Mozart: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major K 493

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The Three Marys at the Tomb

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Lilla Cabot Perry: Easter Morning

“Lilla Cabot Perry was born in 1848 into a prominent Boston family. As a young wife in the later decades of the 19th century, Perry travelled widely across Europe with her family, visiting and studying paintings in Paris and Munich, as well as in Italy, England and Spain. She first encountered the impressionist style in…

Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece II

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World Piano Day 2024

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Franz Marc: The Dream (1912)

“…the allegory represented by The Dream is not overly explicit. As Klaus Lankheit suggests, it is more of a poetic image without any rational meaning. The scene takes place in the middle of the night, as indicated by the marked blackness of the background sky. The yellow house on the left may symbolise the real…

Berthe Morisot: The Cradle

“Berthe Morisot showed The Cradle at the Impressionist exhibition of 1874—the first woman to exhibit with the group. The painting was scarcely noticed although important critics commented on its grace and elegance. After unsuccessful attempts to sell it, Berthe Morisot withdrew it from display and The Cradle stayed in the model’s family until it was…

Cedric Morris: The Easter Bouquet (1934)

Cedric Morris (1889–1982) was a painter of the natural world and one of the most original British artists of the twentieth century. “It was Morris’s incredibly close contact with his subject and deep understanding of their design that enabled him to paint flowers as if they were people – with a mood and personality.” Lawrence…

William Adolphe Bouguereau: The Pieta

“The immediate inspiration for Pietà came not from Bouguereau’s devout Christianity, but from the painful loss of his eldest son Georges who died on July 19, 1875 at the age of sixteen. After spending several months overwhelmed by grief, Bouguereau sought to lift his spirits by fully immersing himself in his art. For several weeks,…

Edgar Degas: Scène de ballet (c.1885)

“The costumes of the dancers on stage become vibrant bursts of color which fuse with the equally indistinct stage props; together the forms hover on the edge of legibility, almost disintegrating into an abstract pattern of light and colour. At centre, the dancers’ bodies are suggested with the utmost precision. They are little more than…

Lucas & Arthur Jussen: Lebensstürme (Schubert)

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Debussy’s Clair de Lune V

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Schubert: String Trio in B-Major, D 471

“Gauguin’s lush Bouquets et céramique sur une commode evidences the sensual delights which were of central concern to the artist throughout his career. Gauguin took joy in depicting the natural world and its raw, unspoilt beauty. Like Barbizon and Impressionist painters before him, he was attracted to pastoral themes and everyday motifs as an emblem of a…

André Brasilier: Cavaliers devant les vagues

“André Brasilier is one of the few surviving École de Paris artists. He stands out in the Parisian modern art scene for his unique style that fuses Fauvist, Impressionist, Expressionist, and Symbolist elements. In a career spanning more than seven decades, horses have consistently been one of his key subjects. In Cavaliers devant les vagues…

The Jussen Brothers Play Mozart

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Enya: How Can I Keep From Singing?

“Founded on an interest in folk art and in particular in the Bavarian folk tradition of Hinterglasmalerei or under-glass painting that Kandinsky and Gabrielle Münter had discovered in Murnau, Kandinsky, in addition to trying the technique himself, began to adopt many of the glass painter’s themes and subject matter in his own art. Adopting their…

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D Major

“Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, her homeland too informs the worlds she creates in her work. “I grew up in a country of natural splendor, of lustrous colors and rhythms, of warm people, a rich culture and history,” she says. “But it’s also a land of breathtaking violence and disparities of wealth.” Now based…

Mary Oliver: Sleeping in the Forest

SLEEPING IN THE FOREST I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light…

Pierre Bonnard: Le petit déjeuner (1917)

“Bonnard developed an early obsession with color through his affiliation with the Nabis, a group of avant-garde artists working in fin-de-siècle Paris. These young painters, who included amongst their ranks Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and Paul Sérusier, were specifically inspired by the examples of Post-Impressionists like Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. The Nabis went even further…

Handel: Harp Concerto in B Flat Major

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Lucas & Arthur Jussen Play Schubert

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Vermeer: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

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Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and Schiff

“Consistent with the Impressionist aesthetic that Berthe Morisot fervently espoused, Woman at Her Toilette attempts to capture the essence of modern life in summary, understated terms…Rendered with soft, feathery brushstrokes in nuanced shades of lavender, pink, blue, white, and gray, the composition resembles a visual tone poem, orchestrated with such perfumed and rarified motifs as…

International Women’s Day 2024

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