Has the Mystery of the ‘Mona Lisa’ Background Been Solved?
Ann Pizzorusso, a geologist and art historian, says she’s identified the location in the background of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting.
Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent - May 20, 2024
"...Past theories about the background have focused primarily on the bridge and the road in the painting...
However, Pizzorusso says these theories ignore the rock formations in Leonardo’s artwork.
“The arched bridge was ubiquitous throughout Italy and Europe, and many looked very similar,” she tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. “It is impossible to identify an exact location from a bridge alone. They all talk about the bridge, and nobody talks about the geology...”
Le Festival de l'Histoire de l'art, ça commence aujourd'hui ! Des conférences, des débats, des visites, une librairie, tout cela au château de Fontainebleau, gratuitement et ouvert à toutes et à tous.
Cette année, le thème est le Sport (🤔 ) et le pays invité, le Mexique.
De la recherche de provenances aux Gender Studies, de l'archéologie à l'art contemporain au Mexique, en passant par l'éducation à l'art ou une conférence sur Suzanne Lenglen, il y en a pour tous les goûts.
Une historienne qui décore des biscuits à partir d’œuvres du Moyen Âge et des 16e-17e siècle, que demander de plus (à part les recettes) ?
Miam ! Un #MardiPatisserie en retard mais à temps pour le #NationalBiscuitDay !
Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
"an impressive achievement, covers a wide range..strongly recommended."- Paul Joannides, Cambridge U
"...beautifully shot, illuminating on the painter’s relationships w/ contemporary artists, his studio & on his relations with clients." - Jane Stevenson, SRF, U of Oxford
Another excellent review of RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT: “Sheds essential light on one of history’s greatest artists. Meticulously researched while there’s much to enjoy for even the dilettante..a thing of splendour"
Details: https://ideasroadshow.com/raphael/
L'INHA propose les rendez-vous numériques en Histoire de l'art des Antilles : déjà 6 épisodes (+ un teaser) qui abordent différents aspects liés au patrimoine antillais. De la carte postale aux tableaux du XVIIIe siècle, ces vidéos explorent différents formats et sujets. A découvrir par ici : https://www.inha.fr/fr/recherche/appels/resultats-des-jurys/en-2020/carte-blanche-2021.html
Photos are coming in from the #IN2FUTURE Boot Camp, #IN2PAST's first doctoral school, which began on Saturday in Évora.
Experimentation, immersion, collaboration, sharing, reflection — that's what we are offering PhD students from the seven research centres that make up the Associated Lab.
Rather than boosting a screenshot of a social media post of someone else talking about but not linking to an artist's work, I've looked up the artist and the work and am linking you to more details.
It is from Yale itself, so you should of course read it critically. But it has more detail and context that is important to Kaphar's transformative work.
Did you know? The first art-based cooperative was founded in Paris in 1860 by a group of artists aiming to control the distribution of their own work. Explore more about the cooperative art movement and discover modern-day artisans at our cooperative: https://artisans.coop/ #ArtHistory#CooperativeMovement#ParisArtScene
Appel à contributions !
"Montrer les collections médiévales" -> on attend vos réflexions sur la façon d'exposer les œuvres du Moyen Âge, sur les discours induits par les expositions, les collections des œuvres de la période, etc.
Thinking about the Extremely Subtle And Understated Symbolism For Fertility painting again (Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, c.1620–5, Sir Nathaniel Bacon)
All the lovingly and painstakingly crafted cabbages. The lovely bosom-forward lass holding that pumpkin? All the erect carrots? The shape of the wreath? So subtle! Incredible. 😆
These are digital #microscope photos of a camel from a 15th-century Persian manuscript in the @subugoe (Cod. MS pers. 14). The purple image was taken with ultraviolet light and the grey picture with infrared. Because infrared goes right through most pigments, it reveals the preliminary sketch of the camel underneath the pigment (which you see in the UV photo). Really interesting for the history of art!
The pot pictured below is one of my favourite pit fired pieces of pottery. .
Pit firing is the original method for firing clay pots and dates back 30,000 years. Colouration comes from combustible materials that are burned. As these materials burn, vapours are released. Hot pots, still porous take the colour.
I do a pit firing once a year and I love feeling connected to the dawn of my chosen craft.
A Rotterdam è #NatoOggi nel 1904 il pittore #WillemDeKooningnel 1926 si trasferisce negli USA dove diventa uno dei più importanti esponenti dell'espressionismo astratto