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Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 31st, 2015. Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum. My son and I looking into the Garden Court at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 2015. On how Mrs. Gardner (called “Mrs. Jack” by her friends) is a “female subject” that visitors encounter when they visit the space. Roman marble throne, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, n.d. Detail of Titian Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Mrs Gardner’s presence and absence was also included in the museum...

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French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015. French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Café Volpini poster, cover and front page for Volpini exhibition, 1889. Image courtesy Wikipedia. As a result, journalists were sure to pass by the café and see the art on display. Although the Café Volpini show was a flop from an economic standpoint, the artists must have gotten some exposure by being on the fair grounds, given that an overwhelmingly impressive number of people – 28 million! To prepare for t...

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Tapestries and Social Metaphors | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Saturday, April 11th, 2015. Tapestries and Social Metaphors. Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread, Park Armory, New York, 2012-2013. Photo by James Ewing. The interconnectedness of individuals is especially apparent to me in Ann Hamilton’s installation “the event of a thread”. Of people rather than of any sort of barrier between them. You can see some videos of this installation HERE. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 1 There are several different accounts that report when some of the...

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architecture | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The Bricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. The Ziggurat of Ur (photo taken 2005). Original structure built c. 2100 BCE. Image courtesy Wikipedia via user Hardnfast. Recently I learned a few interesting points about the mudbricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. This ziggurat was built around 2100 BCE by the king Ur-nammu and his son Shulgi (see a reconstruction drawing of the structure and a map of the original complex HERE. Such fired bricks weighed up to thirty-three pounds.

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Cleopatra and the Carpet Myth | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Friday, February 20th, 2015. Cleopatra and the Carpet Myth. Jean-Leon Gérôme, “Cleopatra and Caesar,” 1866. Today in class I showed my students the beginning of a short video clip. By Sotheby’s about Gérôme’s. The video clip mentions how Gérôme’s painting has influence on Cecil B. DeMille, who directed. Which was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor) has a great scene. Which shows the queen dramatically and unceremoniously unrolled from a rug before Caesa...

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The “Nude” Doric Column | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Wednesday, May 6th, 2015. The “Nude” Doric Column. Left: Doric column from Temple of Athena at Paestum, Italy. Right: Metropolitan Kouros, c. 600 BCE. 8220;Thus two orders were invented, one of a masculine character, without ornament, the other bearing a character which resembled the delicacy, ornament, and proportion of a female” (Vitruvius, 4:1:7). At that point, I had a student ask if the Doric order was supposed to be perceived as nude, since the Ionic order was described as clot...

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Our Team – British Art Research School

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British Art Research School. A site for historians of British art worldwide. The British Art Research School. Committee consists of a number of PhD students from the History of Art Department at the University of York and is responsible for editing the BARS blog and the organisation of events. Jobs and other opportunities. Explore beyond the limits of traditional art practice with 'Conceptual Art In Britain 1964-1979' opens @ Tate. Register for our PG conference 'Re/ Generate' on #materiality. Research S...

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CFP: Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century: 1680-1830 – British Art Research School

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British Art Research School. A site for historians of British art worldwide. May 21, 2015. May 21, 2015. CFP: Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century: 1680-1830. University of York, Berrick Saul Building. The long eighteenth century witnessed an age of social and political revolution which profoundly affected the way in which women occupied and contributed to the public sphere. This interdisciplinary conference looks at representations and conceptions of ‘difficult women’ from the years 1680-1...

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Isabella Stewart Gardner | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Art theory and philosophy. Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009. The Women’s Studies Journal. Recently posted a call for article submissions regarding female art collectors. Here are some of the questions listed in the posting:. 8220;Paintings and sculptures of women have long been objects of the collector’s desire: what happens to this gendered dynamic when the collector is a woman? Is the drive to collect necessarily a masculine quality? What, if anything, is it to collect like a woman? Some m...

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Manet’s Early Salon Submissions | Alberti’s Window

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An Art History Blog. Wednesday, February 11th, 2015. Manet’s Early Salon Submissions. I’m on a roll this week with my posts on 19th century art, aren’t I? I have been discussing Manet’s. Déjuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). After a little research, I learned that. That being said, I can’t deny that I’m also drawn to the contrast of the black shoes and bottle with the light-yellow floor. Édouard Manet, “The Absinthe Drinker,” c. 1859. Portrait of M. and Mme Auguste Manet. 1860, shown below). T...