While many major exhibitions during Upstate Art Weekend have been covered by other media outlets this year, Art & Object has opted to highlight smaller shows at notable venues across Upstate New York and some galleries just across the border in Connecticut.
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“Madonna and Child” is a 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Antonio Solario, also known as Lo Zingaro, whose other works can be found in London’s National Gallery. After being acquired in 1872, the painting safely resided in the civic museum of Belluno, a quaint town nestled in northern Italy’s Dolomite mountains.
So much of what we know about art comes from art historians, but how much do we know about the art historians themselves?
Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect.
In the second installment in our series on jewelry’s place in art history, we’re exploring jewelry collecting in the Renaissance, a time when jewels were considered as valuable to possess and display as painting and sculpture.
The course of this global pandemic has left many feeling shattered and searching for distraction. Derived from two small Japanese words meaning golden and joining, kintsugi is fundamentally about ‘beautifully mending a broken thing.’
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci’s most notable works, it would be easy to assume the women behind the Mona Lisa or Lady with an Ermine were his muses. One may therefore be surprised to discover that his pupils, Gian Giacomo Caprotti and Francesco Melzi, have the honor of this distinguishment.
Summertime’s gardens have long inspired artists and botanists. Botanical illustration emerged around the time of Plato, more than 2,000 years ago. The medium launched not as a fine art, but as a record-keeping device and a teaching tool. At the time, botany and medicine essentially were one and the same.
If it’s true that the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long, then Noah Davis is that flame. He arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 21, sold his first painting by the time he was 25, and 400 artworks later, was dead of cancer at 32.
Delmas Howe: The Lithographs, opens on Saturday, July 12, from 6 to 9 pm, at RioBravoFineArt, 110 North Broadway, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. This show includes a complete inventory of Howe’s lithographs plus a limited number of some never-before exhibited sketches from the RioBravoFineArt archives. Although Howe’s lithographs are a lesser-known part of an oeuvre that is almost exclusively painted canvas, his lithographs include some of his most iconic images.
