Today’s sketch is from the exhibit “Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past ” that was at the Seattle Art Museum in 2008. The whole idea of the exhibit was showing the foundations of European Art that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch comes from a very interesting exhibit the Seattle Art Museum did a few years back on the origins of Impressionism. The point is that all of the pioneers and experimenters of the time had to have a foundation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is a group of details from the painting Christ Before Pilate by a “Painter from Cologne” It was done sometime in the 16th century in oil on wood and is an example of Antwerp Mannerism. I have to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went to Seattle Art Museum for their first free Thursday for the first time since I let my membership expire last year which means New Material! Today’s sketch is Hagar and the Angel by Bernardo Strozzi A very nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is another from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection. “Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon” by the Baroque Italian painter, Guercino. done in 1624 It illustrates a myth from the Roman historian and moralist Valerius[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is from the Seattle art Museum’s Renaissance collection. It’s a Crucifixion by Lorenzo Monaco with the Virgin and St John watching. It was done in Egg Tempera in 1408.
Today’s Sketch is a detail from Nicolas Poussin‘s Venus & Ares from the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Poussin was one of the artists that introduced me to Greek Mythology. My mother was a docent at the National Gallery and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is some details from an Annunciation, at the Seattle Art Museum, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi Aka Lo Scheggia, “the Splinter” done in egg tempera , 1440. I found myself quite taken by this piece. For a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another from the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit, Thomas Gainsborough‘s Two Shepherd Boys With Dogs Fighting from 1783. Since the place was pretty crowded on a Sunday afternoon, I took the exhibit tour afterwards.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t been able to get as much of the Seattle Art Museum’s Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough exhibit as I would like. I’ve been either going there on the weekend when it’s packed which does not really lend itself to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
