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23.9.2022
Svetlana AlpersArt of Describing, 1984In this account of the history of art as it was written in the C20th, 16 essays were written by leading art critics and curators, looking at the impact of each pivotal art book. Each essay in The Books that Shaped Art History by editors Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard (2013) mapped the intellectual development of…
9.9.2022
Broad Leys, built in 1898Looking down from the terrace to Lake WindermereThe origin of the Arts & Crafts movement can be found in the True principles of Augustus Pugin (1812-1852), the Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin (1819-1900) and the revolutionary energy of William Morris (1834-96). They influenced later artists, craftsmen and architects to…
19.8.2022
Portrait of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Frank Salisbury, 1934I was very interested in Hillwood house-museum in Washington DC. The first half of this story, of the Hillwood collection and of Marjorie Merriweather Post, was inspired by Masterpiece Online. The second half is my thinking about the relevance of house-museums today.Businesswoman philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) was born to…
2.8.2022
gold and enamel table salt cellar.made for Francis I of France, 1543Cover image on Cellini's AutobiographyBenvenuto Cellini (1500-71) was a famous Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful C16th politicos and artists. His father had wanted Benvenuto to follow in him as a musician working at the Florentine Medici court. Despite…
29.7.2022
Rosa Bonheur's Château de Byis becoming Musée de l'atelier Rosa BonheurCredit: patrice-besseRosa Bonheur (1822–1899), born in rural Bordeaux, soon moved with her family to Paris. But her father left his wife and 4 children to live with a Christian utopian sect which promoted the equality of women and workers. Bonheur’s mother taught piano and sewing to…
15.7.2022
Jan Hendrik Scheltema (1861–1941) was the youngest child of Lieut-Col Nicolaas Scheltema and his wife Anna Maria, who had 4 surviving children. This patrician family lived in Haarlem and Rotterdam, then moved to Gouda when Jan was 15. Brother Petrus Herman became an architect, then editor of an architectural magazine, and overseer of the Hague’s…
The renovated Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem staged a special exhibition in 2018-9: Frans Hals and the Moderns. Thank you to the Exhibition Catalogue and The French Life.In 1868 Frans Hals (1582-1666) was “rediscovered” by the influential French journalist-art critic Théophile Thoré. Art critics had disregarded Hals since he died in 1666. The Dutchman's innovative painting style with…