“Painted in Antwerp around 1620 when the Flemish artist was at the height of his creative powers, Portrait of a Man as Mars blends the genres of portraiture, allegory, and mythology. Rubens depicts the armor-clad figure wearing an all’antica helmet once owned by the artist himself. Imbued with a magnetic virility, the man conveys the…
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Reuven Rubin: Arab Woman With Potted Plant (1923)
Distinctively Israeli Reuven Rubin is the eighth of 13 children born to a Romanian Jewish Hasidic family. Jewish Virtual Library states, “Although born in Rumania and trained in art in Paris and Rumania, Reuven Rubin in many ways is a distinctly and distinctively Israeli artist. (JVL) Although he spends his life traveling between Romania, Paris, New…
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta: Girls at a Window (c.1875)
Click for enlarged detail: Did you spot the binoculars? 😎 Details Girls at a Window ca. 1875 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, Rome 1841–1920 Versailles) European Paintings Medium: Oil on canvas Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436928 Thanks for Reading! 🙂 The…
Van Gogh & Japan: Part 2
‘Japonaiserie’ Begins The Convention of Kanagawa put an end to the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion. and opened trade between Japan and the West. Artists like Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. Vincent and his brother Theo dealt in these prints,…
Edouard Manet: The Balcony (1868-1869)
When Manet painted this piece, scenes of bourgeois life were in vogue, yet The Balcony went against the conventions of the day. The painting tells no story or anecdote; the protagonists are frozen, as if isolated in an interior dream, evidence that Manet was freeing himself from academic constraints, despite the obvious reference to Majas on the Balcony by Francisco Goya,
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson: Benoît Agnès Trioson, “Reading the Bible” (1797)
Who is This Sad Child? Benoît Agnès Trioson Reading the Bible (1797). Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767-1824). Oil on canvas. Musée Girodet. Presented at the Salon of 1798, the first portrait of Benoît-Agnès shows the child at the age of eight. Immersed in an illustrated Bible, the child seems surprised by the painter who distracts…
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky: Lady with Roses
Lady with Roses, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky Via artist-belsky Click for enlarged view:
Who Am I?
The Story: Sunnyside was born many years ago, the name of my fictional home for orphaned children and animals in a story for Mrs. Watson’s eighth grade writing class. A medical degree and six biologic homeschooled children later, Sunnyside became the name of my classical education website, Sunnyside Classical Christian School. Now entering a new…
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky: Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of a Lady, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky Via artist-belsky:
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 