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The Flight to Egypt. Father and son Tiepolo vary a theme.
Not translated: Die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart besitzt ein relativ kleines Bild von Giambattista Tiepolo: „Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten“. Für einen ausgezeichneten Hof- und Freskomaler ist die Größe von nur 55,5 x 41,5 cm tatsächlich ungewöhnlich, zumal es sich hier nicht um einen Bozzetto, einen Fresko-Entwurf handelt, sondern um eins von vier überlieferten Gemälden […]
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Animal Fury (Masters of Faits Divers – Painting III)
“Le Petit Journal” was the origin and the leading example of the faits divers press. “Somewhat analogous to a surrealist writing game, fait-divers reportage was an impersonal form of literary production that owed everything to the coincidental arrangement of its sentence elements.” (Robin Walz, Pulp Surrealism) The cover illustrators of” Le Petit Journal” created congenial […]
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Van Goghs Favorites IV: Paul Renouard, the Zola of Drawing
“There is life in every little pencil stroke.” Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Nuenen, 4 or 5 May 1885 “When I think how he rose to such a height by working from the very beginning from nature, without imitating others, and how he is none the less in harmony with the […]
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Tinted India. Day & Son and the Photolithographs in “Tent Life in Tigerland”
In his 1888 collection of stories bearing the somewhat excessive title „Tent Life in Tigerland. Being Sporting Reminiscences of a Pioneer Planter in an Indian Frontier District“, we find former Australian Minister of Education James Inglis looking back to an adventurous stretch of his life as an indigo planter in the mangrove forests of Northern […]