Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Irish Girl and The English Boy by Ford Madox Brown

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

The other day I went to Manchester to see the Ford Madox Brown exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery.  The exhibition opened on September 24th and runs until January 29th 2012 and I strongly recommend you make the effort to visit … Continue reading →

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Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display today has me in a quandary.  When I choose a painting for the day I have to spend a number of hours researching the artist, the painting and the subject of the painting and then try … Continue reading →

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Rebecca and Eleazar at the Well by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Today I am returning to Italy for My Daily Art Display painting.  It is a painting based on a biblical tale and one that features the work of the Venetian rococo painter of religious subjects, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.  Piazzetta was … Continue reading →

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Madonna of the Steps by Nicolas Poussin

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

“..Poussin is without question one of the greatest of all French painters whose influence on the development of European Art from the 17th Century onwards cannot be overstated. Like Titian before him and his contemporaries Caravaggio and Velazquez, he developed … Continue reading →

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The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus by Nicolas Poussin

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Today My Daily Art Display looks again at an artist who many believe was the greatest French painter and the leader and dominant inspiration of the classical tradition in French painting.  His name is Nicolas Poussin.   Poussin was born of … Continue reading →

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The Exhibition Stare Case, Somerset House by Thomas Rowlandson

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display today is something different from the usual paintings I feature.  It is a print by the English artist and caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson.  In some ways it reminds me of what is termed the “saucy” seaside postcards which … Continue reading →

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Miss Murray by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

My Daily Art Display looks at a work by one of the greatest English portrait painters.  His name was Thomas Lawrence, later to become Sir Thomas Lawrence.   He was born in Bristol in 1769.  His father, also called Thomas, was … Continue reading →

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Card Players in a Sunlit Room by Pieter de Hooch

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Today My Daily Art Display returns to the Netherlands for its featured artist.  Today I am looking at a painting by the 17th century Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter de Hooch.   He was a contemporary of the great Jan Vermeer … Continue reading →

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The Sorrows of Love by Louis-Léopold Boilly

Posted on September 15, 2011 by

After three days of struggling with a small electronic notebook and the vagaries of foreign WiFi to publish my blogs I am back home to the comfort of my own PC and a fast WiFi.  In just over two months … Continue reading →

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Self Portrait by Tommaso Minardi

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

From a French Modernist painter I am moving to an Italian Romantic painter.  Today I am featuring Tommaso Minardi and looking at his painting entitled Self Portrait, which he painted in 1807. Tommaso Minardi was born in Faenza in 1787, … Continue reading →

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