Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Piss-prophets

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Reproduction of "A Doctor Examining Urine" by Trophime Bigot (1579-1649/50)  Reproduction of "The Urine Examin...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Soils spoils

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Now and then I find the booking photo of an arrestee striking enough to be featured in Quigley's Cabinet (see Heads and Catching a bear...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Trompe l'œil

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trompe l'œil , n. /trɔ̃p lœj/ Also trompe-l'œil , erron. trompe-d'œil . [French, lit. ‘deceives the eye’] Deception of the ey...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Brothers

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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was lucky to have a sibling to look after him, since the Dutch painter suffered from depression most of his li...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Gabrielle d'Estrées

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The image of this picture flashed in my mind last night and it daawned on me that I had never wondered about its origins or sought out the...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Court dwarfs

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I hadn't put 2 and 2 together. I knew that many monarchs enjoyed the company of dwarfs in their courts, and I knew that artist Diego Rod...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Arnolfini wedding portrait

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The biggest misconception about this Renaissance painting is that the woman depicted is pregnant. She's not. The subject is thought to b...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Pig butchering

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I found this item in the weird news intriguing, perhaps because it is anatomical. During the restoration last summer of the painting " ...
Friday, January 2, 2009

Diagnosing the canvas

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Like me, you may be intrigued by medical diagnoses made from historical paintings and portraits. At one point during graduate school, I coll...