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These 11 small streets of terraced houses are laid out like potato beds running between the old ramparts of Østre Anlæg park and Sortedam Lake. After some of the lakes were dammed up in the 1700s, potatoes were grown here…
Raphael (Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520 ), Self portrait Date – 1506, Museum – The Uffizi Technique – Oil on panel, Size – 47.3 x 34.8 cm This painting has been acknowledged as the self-portrait of Raphael as a young…
Artist : Stefano di Giovanni, known as il Sassetta (c. 1392–1450) Title: Angel Gabriel,Date : c. 1428-1430, Medium : tempera and gold on panel,Location : Massa Marittima, Museo di San Pietro all’Orto This article is published on ArtAddict Galleria, where we explore the intersections of…
Lee Krasner (American, Brooklyn, New York 1908–1984 New York) Title: Night Creatures Date: 1965, Medium: Acrylic on paper Dimensions: 30 × 42 1/2 in. (76.2 × 108 cm) Classification: Drawings Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A work of raw intensity, Night Creatures is comprised of…
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, there is a bronze aquamanile, or water jug, dating from late 14th or early 15th Century AD. An aquamanile is a vessel for pouring water used in the ritual of washing hands in…
An Inner Sanctum & Intersection for Art, Spirituality and Social Justice, Rothko Chapel Aspires to the Highest Levels of Humanity And though Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain a few years prior to Rothko Chapel’s opening in 1971,…
David with the Head of Goliath is, according to art historians, a self-portrait of Caravaggio. Some argue that both figures are representative of Caravaggio, with the young figure of David representing young Caravaggio, and the detached and bloody head of…
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York) Title: Untitled , Date: ca. 1948–49 Medium: Dripped ink and enamel on paper Dimensions: 22 3/8 in. × 30 in. (56.8 × 76.2 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1942,…
Jackson Pollock (American, Cody, Wyoming 1912–1956 East Hampton, New York) Title: Number 28, date: 1950 Medium: Enamel on canvas Dimensions: 68 1/16 in. × 8 ft. 8 13/16 in. (172.9 × 266.2 cm) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After Pollock’s…
In the Chateau d’Angers in Angers, France, hangs one of the world’s oldest vestiges of medieval woven art: the Apocalypse Tapestry. Commissioned in 1373 CE, by Louis I of Anjou, this staggering masterpiece is the longest wall hanging ever to…
Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York) Title: Woman , Date: ca. 1952 Medium: Oil paint with collage of cut and printed paper on board Dimensions: 17 11/16 in. × 13 in. (45 × 33 cm) De Kooning…
Title: Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund (‘The Wilton Diptych’) Artist: Unknown, English or French (?) Date: about 1395-1399 Medium: egg tempera on wood Dimensions: each panel 53 × 37 cm…