Category: Renaissance Paintings

• 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

• 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?

• St Jerome’s home office is fit for a genius

  

  For centuries, people had their portrait painted to reinforce their position in society. It had little to do with our modern, lonely desire to feel seen for who we really are. Do we still believe a person can be described from a single viewpoint? Or is multimedia replacing the official painted portrait?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-05-22

  Antonello da Messina paintings, Art History, Diane Tucker, Niccolo Antonio Colantonio paintings, Renaissance Paintings, Saint Jerome in His Study

  Alfred Stieglitz, Colantonio Saint Jerome in his study, Diane Tucker, Messina Saint Jerome in His Study, Niccolo Antonio Colantonio, Photographer David Valdez, Saint Jerome in His Study

• Titian paints lust with eloquence

  

  The Roman goddess Venus is depicted nude in works of art because she represents the lofty ideals of spiritual love and divine beauty. But not Titian’s Venus. She represents something more carnal.

  Diane Tucker

  2022-05-02

  Art History, Diane Tucker, Giorgione paintings, Renaissance Paintings, Titian paintings

  Diane Tucker, Giorgione, La Vecchia, Renaissance art, Titian, Venetian Renaissance Art, Venus with a Mirror