Pieta, 1505. Bellini was a Venetian painter, like Carpaccio, I see the same stillness and airlessness in their paintings. This isn't a criticism, it's just how they strike me. Bellini's famous pupils were Giorgione and Titian.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Giovanni Bellini
Pieta, 1505. Bellini was a Venetian painter, like Carpaccio, I see the same stillness and airlessness in their paintings. This isn't a criticism, it's just how they strike me. Bellini's famous pupils were Giorgione and Titian.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Francisco Goya, El sueño de la razon produce monstruos, 1799.
Los Caprichos, the collection from which this comes, is extremely disturbing and this is the only etching I can look at. It also has the best title.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Round Tower, ca. 1761
Title Page for Prisons, ca. 1761
Piranesi etched some amazing views of Rome that are incredibly detailed and huge, but I couldn't find reproductions of them. His drawings of "Imaginary Prisons" are just as good. What fantastic, ominous visions he had.
Row well and live
R.I.P. Charlton Heston. I only learned today that he was very liberal in the 1960s. He was also extremely witty. Thanks for the memories, Charlton.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Piero della Francesca
Ideal City, ca. 1470.
della Francesca was obsessed with studying perspective, and this is a beautiful example of his obsession.
Carafa Chapel (1489-91)
The frescoes were painted by Filippino Lippi. They're located in the church Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome. Wouldn't it be fantastic to attend services in a church with gorgeous frescoes on every wall?
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Wassily Kandinsky (1886-1944)
Kandinsky is very cool. I just realized it and now appreciate him.
Yellow, Red, Blue (1925)
Composition VIII (1923)
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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