The final painting of today’s Artle – sent me on a brief quest to find out if the artist, Cecilia Beaux, was Catholic. Alas, nothing to be found with a quick search; only that the next year she painted anti-Catholic George Clemenceau (the first painting in today’s Artle). But her painting of Admiral Sir DavidContinue reading “Cecilia Beaux, Portrait of Cardinal Mercier (1919)”
Category Archives: History of Art
La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Watercolors by James Tissot
Catalogues Introduction to the Catalogue for the Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (today the Brooklyn Museum of Art) written by James Tissot Catalogue in English (1901, to accompany exhibition in Brooklyn) and in French (1897, to accompany exhibition in Montreal) James Tissot: The Life of Christ, The Complete Set of WatercolorsContinue reading “La Vie de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Watercolors by James Tissot”
Devotion in Art – Jean-François Millet’s L’Angélus
1880 Drawing by Vincent Van Gogh Jean-François Millet: Peasant and Painter, on The Angelus in an 1881 biography by Alfred Sensier, Millet’s Art Dealer. SmartHistory Dr. Elizabeth Lev explains “The Angelus” by Jean-Francois Millet for Openlight Media Child Stories from the Masters
Nihil sub sole novum 