Today’s sketch is yet another detail and angle of Lamentation of the Dead Christ by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, previous sketches can be seen here and here. As I’ve mentioned before this is one of the pieces I keep coming back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Sketch is from the RISD art museum and is a bronze statue from South India made in the Vijayanagara period (1336-1565) of the god Shiva in his function as Nataraja, the lord of the dance. He is performing the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is more Roman sculpture from the Louvre. This one is a portrait of the Empress Livia, wife of Augustus, as the goddess Ceres.
Today’s sketch is another piece of Neoclassicismfrom the RISD Art Museum ‘s Pendleton House wing. I confess that earlier I’d facetiously called a lot of this work “black velvet for rich people” and this piece is no exception. Nydia, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is another one of my old ones from the RISD museum. I’m embararased to say I don’t know enough about it to talk about it much. It’s a piece of medieval sculpture done in wood and I’m pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s sketch is from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection. It is an earthenware horse from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Well after taking a break on it for over a year I finally got around to renewing my membership for the Seattle Art Museum and you know what that means… New material!! They’d rotated the exhibits a little bit since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just had to share this picture that my mom just sent me from her trip to the Yale Art Gallery. Where she demonstrates how tricky a lot of these “classical” poses really are. I’m ashamed to say I’m having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first saw the ads for the Seattle Art Museum’s current exhibit, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, I automatically assumed it would just be Pre-Columbian Andean art and nothing else. I was so convinced in this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today, it’s back to the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Indian Sculpture collection. This time it’s Vishnu‘s third incarnation, Varaha the Boar done in sandstone from North central India in the 11th century, I’d done this one once before. But I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
