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By Kunstpedia Administrator| 26 May 2009Recent News
Verkiezing Kunstenaar van het Jaar
- Published 30 June 2009
De Kunstweek organiseert jaarlijks twee verkiezingen:
De verkiezing leidt ook tot de samenstelling van de Galerie der Onsterfelijken. De Galerie der Onsterfelijken bestaat uit overleden Nederlandse kunstenaars. De stemming voor de Galerie der Onsterfelijken is grotendeels gelijk van opzet aan de stemming die leidt tot de opstelling van de Galerie van Hedendaagse Kunstenaars.
De nominatieronde wordt gevolgd door de eerste stemronde. In deze publieksronde (van 1 juli tot 15 september) kan iedereen eenmaal stemmen. Meer informatie >>
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- de verkiezing Kunstenaar van het Jaar
- de verkiezing Kunststad van het Jaar.
De verkiezing leidt ook tot de samenstelling van de Galerie der Onsterfelijken. De Galerie der Onsterfelijken bestaat uit overleden Nederlandse kunstenaars. De stemming voor de Galerie der Onsterfelijken is grotendeels gelijk van opzet aan de stemming die leidt tot de opstelling van de Galerie van Hedendaagse Kunstenaars.
De nominatieronde wordt gevolgd door de eerste stemronde. In deze publieksronde (van 1 juli tot 15 september) kan iedereen eenmaal stemmen. Meer informatie >>
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Out-of print journal now on Kunstpedia
- Published 2 May 2009
We have been granted permission to place articles from the publication ‘The Map Collector’ on Kunstpedia. The Map Collector, a quarterly journal for the enthusiast of historical cartography, is no longer being published but the articles remain a valuable and interesting source for the antique map and atlas aficionados. We are therefore grateful that the editor and publisher, Mrs. Valerie G. Newby, has agreed to make the articles available through Kunstpedia. We hope the articles will trigger an interest in historical cartography and map collecting in general.
It will take some time before all articles have been placed on-line as the articles have to be scanned manually, rearranged and prepared for on-line publication. Articles >>
It will take some time before all articles have been placed on-line as the articles have to be scanned manually, rearranged and prepared for on-line publication. Articles >>
Featured Articles
Het Jiddisch Theater van Marc Chagall
- By Didier, Michel
- Published 24 April 2008
- Modern Art , Paintings, Drawings and Prints
- Unrated
Tijdens het bewind van Lenin maakte Marc Chagall van het Jiddisch
Staatstheater in Moskou een verheerlijking van de jiddische cultuur die
hij juist weer in de armen had gesloten. Na een halve eeuw in de
kelders van de Tretjakov Galerij te hebben gezucht, zijn de doeken in
de oorspronkelijke opstelling te bewonderen in het Joods Historisch
Museum. [2002]
What do you mean, "It's a prayer rug?"
- By Price, Steve
- Published 20 March 2008
- Carpets
- Unrated
What is a prayer rug, anyway? There's probably nobody reading this who doesn't think he knows
what a prayer rug is. More likely than not, every one of you is
correct. Sort of. Let me explain.A Muslim must pray five times every day. He can do this at a mosque, but that isn't a requirement. However, he must face Mecca (not necessarily east, as is often supposed) while doing so, and must have a clean place (not defiled by having been walked on with shoes or dirty feet) on which to kneel in prayer. Thus, any clean surface that can be placed on the floor is a prayer rug. A newspaper or a towel can meet the definition, although using a pile rug or kilim is more common.
‘One of America’s foremost cartographers’ : Jed Hotchkiss
- By The Map Collector
- Published 1 November 1989
- Maps
- Unrated
by Peter RoperIn 1948 the Library of Congress in Washington DC acquired the private papers including maps, diaries and letters of a topographi¬cal engineer in the Confederate States Army, Major Jedediah Hotchkiss. The collection includes 600 maps (340 in manuscript) dealing essentially with Virginia and West Virginia between 1861 and 1865. Here, Peter Roper tells the story of the acquisition of the collection and of its original owner who has been described as 'one of America's foremost cartographers. Some recent events make this account of Hotchkiss and his maps very topical. From December 5, 1988 to May 21, 1989 the Library of Congress exhibited sixty maps from its collection of 2,317 cartographic items pertaining to the Civil War. Among those representing Confederate mapping were four items from the Hotchkiss Collection including the large map of the Shenandoah Valley. In conjunction with this exhibition, the Library of Congress pub¬lished a second, and much enlarged, edition of Civil War Maps: an annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson.
Recent Articles
Saints and Sinners: Coins in Medieval Italian Graves
- By Travaini, Prof. Lucia
- Published 1 July 2009
- Classical Antiquities, Coins and Medals
- Unrated
When discussing coin finds in Italian graves it is best to study the phenomenon across the entire medieval period, from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Only by comparing poorly documented periods with those for which the written evidence is more plentiful is it possible to appreciate continuities and disjunctures over time. It is also helpful to consider coins in graves in the wider context of the ritual use of coins. Few coins are found in ancient and early medieval graves compared to other artefacts. In the later middle ages, when graves did not normally contain gravegoods, an occasional coin is the only object that may have caused that grave to be recorded.Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam
- By Sunday Arts
- Published 11 June 2009
- Oriental and Asian Art
- Unrated
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and private collections related to a mystical branch of Islam known as Sufism. While differing Muslim sects and diverse nationalities of the Islamic world may not always share a single religious or cultural ideology, the mystical and romantic aspects of Sufism tend to appeal to a global audience. Inspired by Sufi ideologies and the poetry of celebrated mystics such as al-Ghazzali (d. 1111) and Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), artists from the medieval Islamic period through the present day have produced works of art ranging from ceramic and metal wares to illustrated manuscripts and photographs.Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
- By Sunday Arts
- Published 8 May 2009
- Video
- Unrated
This show marks first major showing of the artist’s oeuvre in New York
in over thirty years. In addition to the well-known Parisian cityscapes
that have traditionally marked him as the “Urban Impressionist,”
Caillebotte painted scenes of outdoor life away from the city on the
coast of Normandy and in the villages of Yerres and Petit
Gennevilliers, where he and his family maintained estates.Video >>
Die Banjara und ihre Stickereien
- By Beste, Michael
- Published 13 April 2009
- e-Book , Textiles, Carpets and Tapestries
- Unrated
Anfang der neunziger Jahre sah ich zum ersten mal Stickereien der Banjara. Ich
war auf einer Einkaufsreise in Gujarat auf der Suche nach alten
Textilien. Ich wollte eine repräsentative Sammlung indischer Stücke
zusammentragen. Seit einigen Jahren verfolgte ich dieses Ziel und ich
war recht erfolgreich. Meine Schränke daheim waren ziemlich voll, im
Bücherschrank standen alle verfügbaren Bücher und Veröffentlichungen
und mir fehlten eigentlich nur noch wenige Typen. Genauer gesagt, ich
war auf der Suche nach alten Turbanen aus Rajasthan - ich sollte sie
einige Wochen später in der Nähe von Jaipur finden - und nach guten
tie- and- dye odhinis und patolas, die ja auch aus Gujarat kommen. Bis
jetzt war ich mit meinen Einkäufen zufrieden.
Phulkari and Bagh-Embroideries of the Punjab
- By Beste, Michael
- Published 10 April 2009
- Textiles, Carpets and Tapestries
- Unrated
This article is an introduction to the embroidered covers and hangings of the Punjab known as phulkari and bagh, which are worked with mainly geometric designs in floss silk on hand-woven cotton. It has been extracted from a more comprehensive German language monograph circulated privately during the mid-199os. The author collects and deals in tribal textiles, and his collection contains more than a hundred prime examples of these colourful folk embroideries.Het aardewerk van Petrus Regout, 1836-1899
- By Hamer Dianne
- Published 7 April 2009
- Porcelain and Ceramics
- Unrated
Beschrijving van het 19e eeuwse aardewerk van Petrus Regout dat in zijn fabriek in Maastricht gemaakt werd.
'Schilderachtig weer' bij Jan van Goyen
- By Falkenburg, Prof.dr. R.L.
- Published 2 April 2009
- Paintings, Drawings and Prints
- Unrated
Al ruim een eeuw staan de landschappen van Jan van Goyen te boek als de
representanten bij uitstek van het realistische landschapsidioom m de
Hollandse Schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw Aanvankelijk huldigde men
daarbij de opvatting dat deze schildenjen het Hollandse 17de-eeuwse
landschap weerspiegelen zoals zieh dat aan het oog van de schilder
voordeed Men wist dat 17de-eeuwse schilders niet, of hooguit uiterst
zelden rechtstreeks naar de zichtbare natuur schilderden, zoals de
impressionisten in de 17de eeuw zouden gaan doen, maar wel tekeningen
en schetsen m de natuur maakten. Deze natuurstudies dienden vervolgens
als hulpmateriaal bij het schilderen m olieverf van landschappen in het
atelier. Deze schildenjen werden zorgvuldig gecomponeerd, maar gaven
desalniettemin de indruk direct naar de natuur het alledaagse
17de-eeuwse Hollandse landschap weer te geven.
Pieter Aertsen, Rhyparographer
- By Falkenburg, Prof.dr. R.L.
- Published 2 April 2009
- Paintings, Drawings and Prints
- Unrated
This article focuses on the rhetorical figure of the 'paradoxical
encomium' (the paradoxical eulogy) as the generic principle for the
still life paintings by the Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen (1507-1575),
the inventor of the genre. It is shown how Aertsen used the idiom of
contemporary art with an artistically and socially high Status for his
own experiments in 'rhyparography', a mode of pictorial expression
associated with the 'paradoxical encomium''.
The Decorum of Grief
- By Falkenburg, Prof.dr. R.L.
- Published 2 April 2009
- Paintings, Drawings and Prints
- Unrated
Notes on the Representation of Mary at the Cross in Late Medieval Netherlandish Literature and Painting'How often did she [Mary] embrace and kiss that Cross with sad longing, especially where the blessed blood of Jesus flowed down along the Cross. And she kissed the earth there on which the blood of Xpi [Christ] feil, and she licked that blood from the earth with such longing that her face was full of blood. Oh, how sad Mary was.'
Facing Modern Times - The Revival of Japanese Lacquer Art 1890-1950
- By Leiden University
- Published 2 April 2009
- Oriental and Asian Art
- Unrated
This thesis is a compilation of essays on topics concerning Japanese
lacquer art of the period 1890-1950, each based on the study of objects
and the literature. The essays are grouped into two clusters: the first
one focussing on four leading artists of the period and the second one
on the manufacturers of traditional utensils. For a better
understanding, the clusters are preceded by an overview on the
developments in lacquer art between 1850 and 1950. The closing chapter
on storage boxes can be considered a by-product of the previous
studies.
