Month: June 2022

• George Bellows: Last stop, 59th Street

  

  The scale of the lone tenement building under the new Queensboro Bridge seems odd. Is it real? Or is it a ghost, urging us to remember all the homes that were bulldozed in the name of urban expansion and the meaningful interactions that once took place inside them?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-19

  Art History, Ashcan School artists, Diane Tucker, Edouard Manet paintings of Paris, George Bellows New York paintings, Impressionism, The Lone Tenement, The Old Musician

  Diane Tucker, Edouard Manet, Excavation at Night, George Bellows, Haussmann Paris, Queensboro Bridge construction, The Lone Tenement, The Old Musician

• Leonardo’s brazenly feminist portrait

  

  During the Italian Renaissance, women were portrayed as ideals, symbols, and allegories — even in their own portraits. Then one day Leonardo da Vinci and Lisa Gherardini said goodbye to all that.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-06-05

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Domenico Ghirlandaio paintings, Filippo Lippi paintings, Leonardo da Vinci paintings, Mona Lisa, Renaissance Paintings

  Diane Tucker, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Leonardo da Vinci paintings, Mona Lisa, Renaissance portraits of women, What's so special about the Mona Lisa?