Month: May 2023

• Old Masters: The dog stays in the picture

  

  Is a dog more than “just a dog” in an Old Master painting? “Dogs give an honest bark of truth,” said Diogenes, an ancient Greek philosopher who may be onto something. Diogenes lived in a clay wine barrel on the streets of Athens. He knew dogs.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-05-02

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Dogs in famous paintings, Gaspare Traversi paintings, Pieter Bruegel paintings, Renaissance Paintings, The Hunters in the Snow, Venetian Renaissance paintings, Vittore Carpaccio paintings, William Hogarth paintings

  Diane Tucker, Dogs in genre paintings, Eric Denker National Gallery of Art, Gaspare Traversi, Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel, Saint Augustine in His Study, Saint Margaret of Cortona, The Lady's Last Stake, Vittore Carpaccio, William Hogarth