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On Familiar Things: March 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Dirck van Baburen. Man with Spoon Pipe and Game Boy, 1621. Let us meditate a moment, if you have the time (I do! On the obvious artistic wellhead of this painting: Caravaggio! Think, briefly, on the irregular composition, the lighting – but where is Caravaggio's eminent seriousness? That is the Dutch spirit, friends! Saturday, March 14, 2009. Jan Jansz Treck. Still life vanitas, 1648. I thought. I was instead polite and patient and helped them with directions. We parted...Carry...
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On Familiar Things: July 2009
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Friday, July 24, 2009. Jan de Bray et al. Jan de Bray. The Governors of the Guild of St. Luke, Haarlem, 1675. A remarkable work, a great synthesis of talent and camaraderie. The collaborative nature of the painting is most plainly evidenced by the sketch shown on the table. We are unbelievably lucky that this sketch is extant! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Prof Jan Peeters is on research leave from the art history department at the University of Utrecht. His new book, The Sacred Kitchen,. Hermann Wundrum i...
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On Familiar Things: Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten II
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Friday, April 10, 2009. Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten II. Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten. Self Portrait, ca. 1647. This self-portrait of such alarming alacrity should give any astute viewer a glimpse into the very soul of a young Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (this painting was done at a mere 16 years of age! Prior to his meteoric rise as painting virtuoso, constructor of 3D "peepshow" boxes, poet, and author of the watershed Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst. I have been poring through so ...
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On Familiar Things: Joachim Sandrart
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Friday, March 9, 2012. Joachim von Sandrart. February, 1642. Often in our academic lives (Jan will agree! We must take time away from important tasks to consider the work of our colleagues. To assist with the lecture notes, manuscripts and restoration projects that fill an art historian's days. And this morning, I'd like to share a bit of a certain colleague's work with our readers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is available from Cambridge University Press. A Chat with Profs. Peeters and Wundrum.
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On Familiar Things: February 2009
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Friday, February 20, 2009. Caravaggio. The Cardsharps, c. 1596. Please, let me preface this – forgive my absence! Caravaggio, for some time before his "big break" (so to speak) painted the miniatures that adorned cards for the collectible card game (CCG) Magic: The Gathering – surely a boring, menial task for a man of Caravaggio's scintillating brilliance. Here, he seems to comment on that previous employment; what ought to be a scene of casual, charming, trivial divertisment. The most important aspect o...
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On Familiar Things: Jan Steen
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Jan Steen. The Feast of St. Nicholas, 1656. How we have been away, Jan and I, busying ourselves with obligations of writing and teaching. In the past few years (has it been so long, Jan? We have had nary an afternoon to sit, write and share the certain perfumes of our favorite paintings. But with contracts now fulfilled and manuscripts submitted we can delight in our most-loved paintings yet again. Welcome back, Hermann! February 29, 2012 at 4:30 AM. Thank you, Jan. Your c...
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On Familiar Things: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Jan Steen. The Feast of St. Nicholas, 1656. How we have been away, Jan and I, busying ourselves with obligations of writing and teaching. In the past few years (has it been so long, Jan? We have had nary an afternoon to sit, write and share the certain perfumes of our favorite paintings. But with contracts now fulfilled and manuscripts submitted we can delight in our most-loved paintings yet again. Saturday, February 18, 2012. Pieter Jansz van Asch. In this picture, van Asch i...
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On Familiar Things: Jan de Bray et al
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Friday, July 24, 2009. Jan de Bray et al. Jan de Bray. The Governors of the Guild of St. Luke, Haarlem, 1675. A remarkable work, a great synthesis of talent and camaraderie. The collaborative nature of the painting is most plainly evidenced by the sketch shown on the table. We are unbelievably lucky that this sketch is extant! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Prof Jan Peeters is on research leave from the art history department at the University of Utrecht. His new book, The Sacred Kitchen,. Hermann W...
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On Familiar Things: Pieter Jansz van Asch
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Saturday, February 18, 2012. Pieter Jansz van Asch. Pieter Jansz van Asch. Self Portrait with Dio LP, c. 1648. In this picture, van Asch is mid-conversation with us. We almost feel the intensity of his late-night-snack-fueled fervor. He sits red-eyed in his dressing gown, revealing to us as co-conspirators the secret-within-a-secret of his copy of Dio's Evil or Divine. When read from the right perspective it reveals the phrase WE ATE THE ACID. A treasured memento, indeed. February 29, 2012 at 7:36 PM.
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On Familiar Things: September 2009
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Saturday, September 5, 2009. Cornelis Bega. Woman Playing Guitar Hero, 1664-65. The unfortunate aspect of the above is that I was, while an adjunct professor at Cornell, unable to complete the necessary research for The Sacred Kitchen. I realized that I had surpassed even my own capacity for cognitive dissonance and rationalization. So – the move! Here I am, now, ensconced in the green California hills, with nary a television set or Wii in sight, returning diligently to my work. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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