Archaeologists Discover 12th-Century Bathhouse Hidden in Spanish Tapas Bar. Last summer, the owners of Cervecería Giralda, a popular tapas bar in Seville, Spain, embarked on a long-delayed renovation of their almost 100-year-old establishment.
A Witty and Refreshingly Feminist Look at Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Garrard’s compelling new book Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe was supposed to publish on May 1 in the United States, but (like so many things) it was delayed for months due to COVID-19, so arrived instead in mid-September.
It’s more than worth waiting for, and, as it turns out, the timing is good. A major exhibition of Artemisia’s work at the National Gallery in London had been due to open this past spring, but was put on hold on account of the pandemic and is now opening in early October. There’s not a little irony in reading Garrard’s lively account of a 17th-century artist’s life wherein plague is plentiful — Artemisia likely died of it — when a plague (or at least pandemic) is back on the table. How strange that a book about the late Renaissance and Baroque would now prove so very much of our time.
Hank Willis Thomas Gives an Infamous Modern Art Diagram a Postcolonial Update. The 1936 “Cubism and Abstract Art” graphic by the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Alfred J.
Barr, Jr., has become the stuff of legend in art circles. In it, Barr presents a very pared-down history of art that condenses many movements into a teleological chart that reinforces the importance of Cubism and its ilk. Like colonialism itself, this version of history is in service of one thing: justifying the dominance of modern European civilization, even if, as in this case, it is focused on a particular cultural movement.
Artist Hank Willis Thomas has updated the arcane image for his exhibition at Maruani Mercier Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. A time when every picture told a story. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Profile £18.99, p288 Vermeer compresses a whole world into the cool, lucid, quietly domesticated rooms he painted; his flat rectangles of canvas somehow square the circle and stretch to the round edges of imagined space.
Mirrors on the walls multiply observed reality, windows open on to an exterior we cannot see and the curved surfaces of a wine glass or a water pitcher reflect objects outside the painting's proper scope. If you look at it closely enough, the earring worn by one of his subjects turns into a microcosm: a pearl, like the Earth explored and exploited by 17th-century cartographers and merchants, is a globe. Canadian Sinologist Timothy Brook discovered Vermeer when he fell off his bicycle in Delft during a university vacation. Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome, Circa 320 C.E. A few years ago, we featured Rome Reborn, which is essentially "a 3D digital model of the Eternal City at a time when Ancient Rome’s population had reached its peak (about one million) and the first Christian churches were being built.
" Rome Reborn offers, declared Matthias Rascher, "a truly stunning bird’s-eye view of ancient Rome that makes you feel as if you were actually there. " You may also remember our posts on video analyses of great works of art by Khan Academy's Smarthistory. Today, the two come together in the video above, "A Tour Through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E. " In it, we not only see and move through ancient Rome reconstructed, we have our extended tour guided by renowned "virtual archaeologist" and overseer of the Rome Reborn project Dr.
Bernard Frischer, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. We hear Frischer in dialogue with Dr. Related Content: Free Courses in Ancient History, Literature & Philosophy. In Cave in Borneo Jungle, Scientists Find Oldest Figurative Painting in the World. On the wall of a cave deep in the jungles of Borneo, there is an image of a thick-bodied, spindly-legged animal, drawn in reddish ocher. It may be a crude image. But it also is more than 40,000 years old, scientists reported on Wednesday, making this the oldest figurative art in the world. Until now, the oldest known human-made figures were ivory sculptures found in Germany. An Illustrated Guide to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
(1971) is generally considered the first major work of feminist art history. Maura Reilly, a curator, writer, and collaborator of Nochlin’s, described the work as “a dramatic feminist rallying cry.” Uffizi Gallery’s Vast Sculpture Collection Goes Online in Interactive 3D Scans. Old Masters enthusiasts will now be able to pore through the expansive collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy from the comfort of their own home.
Thanks to a collaboration between the eminent Italian gallery and Indiana University (IU), a collection of over 300 digitized ancient sculptures and fragments are available as interactive three-dimensional scans. The website was unveiled last Tuesday, August 7, to an eager public. RANKED: 10 Paintings of Judith Beheading Holofernes. Today in Current Affairs, we examine an urgent and timely topic: Judith’s beheading of Holofernes!
This story comes to us from the Book of Judith, a biblical text about the attempted conquest of Israel by the Assyrians. Judith is a Jewish widow who ingratiates herself with the invading general Holofernes, waits for him to fall asleep, and then hacks his head off and takes it home with her (thus thwarting the entire invasion, because the Assyrians evidently had no Plan B if Holofernes was killed. Solid military strategy, Assyrians.) How to Use the Concept Attainment Strategy. A Video Game Shows the True Colors of Ancient Greece. Blame the Italian Renaissance.
The rediscovery of Greco-Roman sculpture in the 15th century spawned a long-held misperception that the artists of Antiquity intentionally left their work unpainted. For intellectuals of the Renaissance who pooh-poohed the idea of polychromatic sculpture because of its prevalence during the much-derided Medieval period, the use of bare marble signaled yet another achievement of the Classical era, alongside scientific and political achievements. Yet, if not for their burial, which stripped away layers of paint from artifacts and ruins, the Greco-Roman art we see today would blaze with brilliant colors. And although art historians have attempted to correct this misunderstanding, popular culture has refused to acknowledge it in most interpretations of ancient life. Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Un ‘mea culpa’ social para reconquistar a las masas europeas. Europa asiste a un tímido renacimiento de las políticas sociales tras la durísima década poscrisis de 2008.
El bando nacionalpopulista lleva años esgrimiendo el discurso de protección a los perdedores de la globalización como una de sus banderas. Ahora, el bando contrario, los globalistas moderados, emite crecientes señales de querer reconquistar ese terreno. Esta semana, Emmanuel Macron, Pedro Sánchez y Jean-Claude Juncker han lanzado señales en ese sentido con el inicio de un gran debate nacional (en Francia), la presentación de los Presupuestos (en España) y la entonación de un mea culpa sobre la gestión de la crisis griega (la Comisión Europea). Hubo un tiempo en el que pertenecer a la UE —al sistema que encarnaba— sumaba años de vida y todos lo sabían o percibían.
Las clases populares más que nadie. Años Hoy gran parte de esos segmentos sociales han perdido ese convencimiento. Tras una primera fase de presidencia muy liberal, Macron intenta un viraje social. Art History Courses. Art Home | ARTH Home | Art Program | ARTH Links | Contact Art History Courses College Catalog entry for ARTH courses. The following are links to Web pages constructed to support Art History courses. Art History Courses. Art Home | ARTH Home | Art Program | ARTH Links | Contact Art History Courses College Catalog entry for ARTH courses.
ARTH 209 Assignments. Art Home | ARTH Courses | ARTH 209 Home History of Greek and Roman Art Fall, 2013 Assignments September 3 : Introductory Class. The Second Dacian War: Reliefs Scene-by-Scene on Trajan's Column in Rome - Trajan's Column in Rome. This page continues the photo documentation from the Column of Trajan, beginning with the Second Dacian War (105 – 106 CE) and ending with the final sequence of reliefs at the top of the Column. If you have not already done so, begin with reviewing the scenes from the First Dacian War here. – Los hijos de Eros: homosexualidad militar en la Grecia clásica. Desde que Ridley Scott recuperó con Gladiator el antiguo género del cine de romanos o peplum, el interés por la Antigüedad clásica en la cultura popular ha experimentado un auge continuado en el que uno de los hitos es sin duda la adaptación a la pantalla del cómic de Frank Miller sobre otro mito guerrero; los trescientos soldados espartanos que combatieron y murieron heroicamente en la batalla de las Termópilas.
Hasta el punto de que ese discurso sobre la disciplina y el sacrificio castrense se ha convertido en un referente cultural moderno. Art History through Innovators: Sculpture, part 3 (Look at those chiseled abs!) The New York Kouros — one of the earliest surviving life-size Greek sculptures — at first glance looks like a close relative of the Egyptian sculptures we saw in Part 2. But in the details lurks a major innovation. (Note: The timeline is here; the complete survey in Kindle format is Innovators in Sculpture.) How is this sculpture like Egyptian sculptures?
Working head to toes, here are the similarities between Egyptian sculpture and the New York Kouros. The hair is stiff, like a wig. Art History through Innovators: Sculpture, part 3 (Look at those chiseled abs!) The Portrayal of Women Throughout History. Art Movements. THE ORIGIN OF ROMANESQUE ART Ancient Olympics. Arte griego del período arcaico. How Art Has Shaped Female Beauty Ideals throughout History.
Still, in recent years the forces shaping ideals of feminine physical beauty have shifted markedly. The Criminally Overlooked Talent of Baroque Painter Michaelina Wautier. BRUSSELS — An oft-repeated tagline throughout the promotion for “Michaelina: Baroque’s Leading Lady” is “Mysterious Michaelina”. Rediscovering Ancient Greek Music (2017) Art Historical Analysis – at the University of Houston. About this Site. How a Female-Led Art Restoration Movement in Florence Is Reshaping the Canon. The Global Art Market Newswire. MWNF - Museum With No Frontiers - The Virtual Museums.