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The fine arts, decorative arts and architecture of Europe, North America and Australia, 1650-1933. | |
on Sep 14, 2018 in: Canada, literature, paintings
No nation was as interested in domestic genre scenes as the post-Reformation Dutch. The Dutch middle class wanted small, realistic images of their own life, images where education, exploration, science, business and Protes...
The film Woman in Gold, directed by Simon Curtis, was about the recovery of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907. Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 (Moritz Bleibtreu)’s finished portrait painting, made of gorgeous oil, silver and gold, took t...
I can recognise and love every one of William Hogarth's (1697-1764) works of art. What I did NOT realise that one of his dogs, Trump (c1730–1745), appeared in a number of his engavings and paintings. Apart from looking ugly, it has been suggested b...
on Sep 4, 2018 in: Australia, history, medicine, Melbourne, sculpture
Albert Coates (1895-1977) was born in Ballarat in Central Victoria, oldest of seven children of strong Methodists Arthur and Clara Coates. Although money was short, Arthur and Clara raised their family valuing education. Albert had a thirst for...
on Aug 31, 2018 in: France, paintings, Switzerland
Notable German art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956) was the son of a famous art historian, Cornelius Gurlitt I (1850–1938), and grandson of Louis Gurlitt (1812–1897), an important C19th landscape artist.Early in his career in the...
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881, in Málaga Spain. Landmarks of the artist’s childhood are still vibrant today in this sunlit Mediterranean city. The Church of Santiago was where Picasso was baptised. Touristy Plaza de la Merced was where...
The origins of the boy scout movement have been well documented and well read. Col. Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) had long been very familiar with the organisation called The Boys' Brigade, founded by his Scottish friend William Alexander...
