For Holy Week, we offer six paintings for your contemplation. (Click to enlarge.) Johannes Vermeer: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (c. 1654) Luca Giordano: Christ Cleansing the Temple (17th century) Juan de Juanes: The Last Supper (16th century) Johannes Oertel: Going … Read more
I recently did a post on Opening the Door to Russian Art, so I thought I should follow it up with Opening the Door to German Art. There’s so much to discover in the arts that many people find the topic just too big. I … Read more
A Crimean-born Armenian, Ivan Aivazovsky was raised largely in Poland and then studied art in St. Petersburg. He loved travel, found solid success, and enjoyed commissions from Russian aristocrats and highly placed officials as far away as Istanbul. Late in life he painted the oppressions … Read more
As I began to write this post about the paintings of Konstantin Makovsky (1839-1915), a friend called to tell me about today’s catastrophe in the Moscow Metro. This is a line I easily could have been on this morning. It’s the line my Russian friend … Read more
