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Just this morning I discovered the Gilcrease Museum site. This largely unheralded institution clearly contains some very fine works. I was much taken by, for example, Sierra Nevada Morning, 19th century, by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).
The church where Johann Sebastian Bach spent his most productive years -- St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany.
The church is known in German as the Thomaskirche.The Holy Family group, composed of Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus, is a favorite among both artists and the public, perhaps because of the affection generally portrayed. Here are six such works owned by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California --
Holy Family, ca. 1520, by Giulio Romano (description) Holy Family, ca. 1520, by Follower of Bernaert van Orley (description) Holy Family, ca. 1540, by Girolamo da Carpi (description)
Holy Family, ca. 1550, after Raphael (description) Holy Family with three saints, ca. 1560, by Nosadella (description) Holy Family, ca. 1650, by Nicholas Poussin (description)
Madonna with Saints (Thomas Aquinas and Paul), ca. 1330, by Bernardo Daddi (additional information)
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Bonus: Virgin and Child, ca. 1290, by Master of St. Cecilia (additional information)
For a delectable aural experience, listen to a few clips from Mozart's four Horn Concerti, played by Barry Tuckwell, soloist, with the Orchestra of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner. Scroll down the page a bit and you will come to thirteen samples.
(And if you care at all about classical music, keep the ArkivMusic.com site in mind. It's where I go for all my research on classical CDs.) )
Otto I presents Magdeburg Cathedral to Christ, ca. 965 (ivory) (additional information)
Take a look at how the various sections of the New York Botanical Garden
look during winter. Each of the pages below has nine color
photos. Just mouse-over the small pics on the right to see them.
(1) Indoors --
(2) Outdoors --Conservatory Orchid Collection Perennial Garden Conifer Arboretum Forest
When formally attired, a bishop wears a distinctive headpiece known as a "mitre." Bishops in the Western church have for centuries worn a mitre that comes to a point at the top, as shown in this portrait of St. Ildefonso, ca. 1610, by El Greco.
Bishops in the Russian Orthodox Church traditionally wear a mitre with a broader, rounder top. Here are four quite lovely 19th-century examples from the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia --
Mitre, 1840s Mitre, 2nd half, 19th century Mitre, 2nd half, 19th century Mitre, late 19th century
You can see three bishops wearing mitres such as these in the Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra, 1895, by Laurits Tuxen.
A serendipitous find -- Morning in the Mountains, before 1824, by Caspar David Friedrich. Be sure to look at the larger of the two full-size images, so that you can see the mountaineers and the sheep.
Loren was kind enough to comment on yesterday's "The People Working" series, saying that he found Spruance's work reminiscent of Diego Rivera's. The artist Diego Rivera painted four walls of the Detroit Instititute of Art in 1932-33, using the fresco technique. These murals depicting "Detroit Industry" have become world-famous. The two lesser walls are --
East Wall West Wall
Much more dramatic are these two full-wall treatments --
North Wall South Wall
The "zoom" feature available on these pages permits us to get quite close to the murals' figures. Quite exciting!
(Note: you might like to approach these from a slightly different point of view, using the museum's list of all four walls.)
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