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Alberti's Window

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An interesting and creative art history blog about painting, sculpture, architecture, research, news, and art theory. Posts cover all types of artistic periods and styles. This blog appeals to both art historians and newcomers to art history!

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  • thanksgiving: rockwell and lee

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 17:10 in 20th century

    Happy Thanksgiving! I don't know too many works of art about Thanksgiving; I usually associate this holiday with Norman Rockwell's Freedom From Want (1943, shown above). Last week, though, I learned about another Thanksgiving painting while listeni...

  • Linda Nochlin lecture at SAAM

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 23:59 in 20th century, 19th century, art theory and philosophy

    Last night I watched a live webcast of Linda Nochlin's lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Nochlin is one of the forefront feminist art historians today (she practically created feminist studies in art history with this article). She ha...

  • durer\'s temperaments of the four humours

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 20:03 in northern renaissance

    I got distracted today by Durer's Adam and Eve (1504). I'm preparing a lecture on how Durer's engraving Melencolia I is influenced by the doctrine of the four humours, and then I remembered how Durer also included references to the four humors in hi...

  • watteau = not exactly flemish

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 00:16 in 18th century

    I'm still thinking about Watteau this week. On the left is a portrait of Watteau by Rosalba Carriera (1721).Just in case you're wondering, it's not completely accurate to say that Watteau was a Flemish artist. Okay, I know what you're thinking: "Of...

  • "fête galante" and demeaning terms

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 00:13 in 18th century

    In my earliest art history classes, I remember learning that Watteau was associated with the "fête galante" genre from the Rococo period. The "fête galante" includes depictions of feasts or celebrations of gallantry, and it usually showed idle ari...

  • fra filippo lippi\'s "handy" work

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 21:59 in southern renaissance

    Vasari writes that Fra Filippo Lippi made a conscious decision to stop including a lot of hands in his paintings. Apparently, Lippi had been criticized for including too many hands in his compositions, and someone advised him to be aware of that fac...

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risomsr

5 stars Ronald D. Isom

Very good art history information. I will use you blog as a resource.

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