Tag: William Hogarth: The Lady’s Last Stake (1759)

• The dog stays in the picture

  

  Is a dog ever more than “just a dog” in an Old Master painting? The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes said dogs provide an honest bark of truth—and I think he may be onto something.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-05-02

  Art history stories, Everyday Life, Love and Relationships, Renaissance Art, The Shy Museumgoer

  Arts writer Diane Tucker, Bruegel dogs symbolism, Dog symbolism in art, Dogs in masterpiece paintings, Gaspare Traversi Saint Margaret of Cortona (1758), Vittore Carpaccio: Saint Augustine in His Study (1502), William Hogarth: The Lady’s Last Stake (1759)