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Among most of the peoples of the world, death does...
Kunst is buitengewoon zinnenprikkelend en zinvol: soms schieten woorden te kort! In dit artikel gaat het juist over die woorden in de letterlijke zin: hoe kun je een kunststuk, collectie of tentoonstelling goed met woorden onder de aandacht brenge...
Personal insights are from Stephanie Heydt, Curator of American Art.
Joseph Stella joined the ranks of modern art in 1913 with his Italian Futurist-related work. At the same time, famous paintings of the Brooklyn Bridge-a very different style and subject-appeared in Stella's paintings, works in pastel colors that feature stylized birds and landscapes with sharply delineated silhouettes and long, curvilinear rhythms. This is the style out of which he developed his Madonna paintings in the following decade. In Purissima, Stella presents the Madonna as the Queen of Heaven, wrapped in a regal cape. There is a curious yet somehow attractive incongruity between the naturalistic face and the totally stylized figure standing imperiously in a blue gown.
Rembrandt paintings were dead cheap in the ’30 of the previous century, as noted by J. Paul Getty in his diary in 1976. The oversupply of Dutch masters, due to the uprising and fear for the Nazis and the threat of war had completely blown a hole i...
With the recent publication of 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain, and of course the Afghan and Iraq War Diaries, Kunstpedia was curious to see if any c...
Subscribe to our newsletter or 'Pay with a Tweet' and receive a free copy of the eBook version of ‘The Hoogsteder Mercury’, suitable for any type of eReader and the Amazone Kindle.This art-historical magazine featuring over 70 illustrated art...
What is more convenient than reading your favourite literature on an iPad, after a hard day’s work of ploughing through the poppy fields of Afghanistan as part of the military campaign. In the 19th century our troupes were not blessed with such fi...
There are a number of stolen art registers and databases available on internet, one more accessible than the other.
The number of specialised databases is however quite limited. For some reason it seems that the antiquarian book and map trade are ...
Reviewed by Richard PfledererDuring the early period of portolan charts, production was dominated by the Genoans, Venetians and Catalans. Eventually production would spread to many other ports, but these three enjoyed a virtual monopoly for 150 ye...
