Art History.

FEATURE Image: Paris Bordon/e (1500-1571). Gladiator fight, c. 1560, oil on canvas, 218 × 329 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie. ITALY. Venetian art in the 16th Century: Bellini, Conegliano, Carpaccio, Giorgione, del Piombo, Vecchio, Cariani, Lotto, Bordon/e. – CORRIDORS│An Educational Website in the Arts and History. Featuring My Photography and Videos.

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ITALY. Two Flower Paintings from 1608 in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy by Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), nicknamed  the “Flower” and “Velvet” Artist.

Feature Image: Flowers in a Vase and Flower Vase with Jewel, Coins, and Shells, both 1608, oil on copper, by Jan Brueghel the Elder and in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy. Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568-1625) produced hundreds of paintings by his own hand and in collaboration with other master painters. His painterly skill…

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ITALY. 550th Anniversary of the Birth of Italian Renaissance Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (March 6, 1475-1564). 17 Artworks & Illustrations.

FEATURE Image: Portrait of Michelangelo, Marcello Venusti (1510-1579), after 1550. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy. see – https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/ritratto-di-michelangelo/AgFcI66SXt6qGg?hl=it – retrieved March 6, 2025. The Italian Renaissance artist was born in Florentine territory in Caprese in the provinces of Tuscany where his father was a government bureaucrat. The family soon relocated to Florence where Michaelangelo grew up.…

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ITALY. Venetian art in the 16th Century: Bellini, Conegliano, Carpaccio, Giorgione, del Piombo, Vecchio, Cariani, Lotto, Bordon/e.

FEATURE Image: Paris Bordon/e (1500-1571), Fisherman Presenting a Ring to the Doge Gradenigo, 1534, oil on canvas, 370 x 301 cm (145.7 in × 118.5 in), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. INTRODUCTION TO PART 1. Venice is one of the great Italian cities for Renaissance art and its wide-ranging influences. Reflecting a city in the sea, its art…

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ITALY. CARAVAGGIO (ITALIAN, 1571-1610), BAROQUE MASTER OF DARKNESS. (50+ artworks).

FEATURE Image: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1598, oil on canvas, 56 ¾ x 76 ¾” 145 x 195cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome. https://barberinicorsini.org/opera/giuditta-e-oloferne/ – retrieved October 12, 2024. Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630), Portrait of Caravaggio, c. 1621/25, red and white chalk on blue paper, 23.4 x 16.3 cm, Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence. INTRODUCTION.…

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ITALY. RAPHAEL (ITALIAN, 1483-1520), HIGH RENAISSANCE MASTER. (50+ artworks).

FEATURE Image: Raphael, Portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Doni, c. 1506, oil on panel, 24  ¾  x 17 ¾” Pitti Gallery, Florence. INTRODUCTION. Born in Urbino in 1483, an environment rich in the arts and humanist learning, Raphael had a remarkable capacity for personal growth and branded new incarnations of his artistic style regularly.…

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LOW COUNTRIES. POST-IMPRESSIONISM. My 2005 Visit to Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, where VINCENT VAN GOGH’s final paintings and drawings were made between May to July 1890 assuring his role in artistic modernism.

FEATURE Image: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet (“The Church at Auvers”), June 1890, oil on canvas, 94 cm x 74 cm (37 in x 29.1 in), Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), staying in Auvers starting on May 20, 1890 liked the country town with its artistic pedigree (Corot, Daubigny,…

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LOW COUNTRIES. Flemish art in the 15th Century.

FEATURE Image: Petrus Christus (c. 1395-1472), Pietà, c. 1455–60. 39 ¾ x 75 ½ inches, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Brief Introduction to Flemish art in the 15th century. Flemish art, as the name suggests, originates in Flanders which includes the Low Countries (Netherlands and Belgium) as well as northeastern France. The…

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BRITAIN. James McNeill Whistler’s favorite contemporary British artist: ALBERT JOSEPH MOORE (1841–1893). Four meticulously painted large-format visions of human figures in a mysterious, at once ancient and modern, idealized natural world that pursued beauty.

FEATURE image: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), READING ALOUD, 1884, oil on canvas, 42.24 x 81 in., Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum. INTRO: Albert Joseph Moore was born in 1841 into a family of artists in North Yorkshire in England. Moore through his own advanced aesthetic experiments in the milieu of theoretical and practical advancements of…

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FRANCE. My Art Photography: Cathédrale de Chartres, ROYAL (WEST) PORTAL (12th century), anonymous, Chartres, France.

FEATURE image: “Chartres, North Porch, Central Portal, LeftJamb” by profzucker is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The North Porch was constructed at the start of the 13th century. The North Porch, like the North Rose Window (below) crafted in the same time, depicts the glories of the Virgin Mary along with Old Testament figures. I visited Chartres Cathedral…

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FRANCE. French art in the 17th Century: SIMON VOUET (1590-1649).

https://johnpwalshblog.com/2022/12/07/french-art-in-the-17th-century-simon-vouet-1590-1649/ FEATURE Image: Simon Vouet (1590-1649), Self-portrait, c. 1626–1627, Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon. https://www.mba-lyon.fr/fr/article/simon-vouet In Simon Vouet’s self portrait painted in his final years in Rome he displays his signature rapid brushwork and desire for movement in the picture. Simon Vouet was born into modest circumstances in Paris on January 9, 1590. After stays…

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FRANCE. French art in the 17th Century: VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE (1591-1632).

FEATURE IMAGE: Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), Allegory of Rome, 1628, oil on canvas, 330 x 245 cm, Villa Lante (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae Foundation). Villa Lante in Rome is an example of the work of the 16th century Raphael school in the reign of the Medici popes. The Renaissance villa, which was a residence for Roman…

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FRANCE. French art in the 16th Century.

FEATURE image: Ulysses and Penelope, Francesco Primaticcio called Le Primatice (1504-1570), Toledo Museum of Art, c. 1560, oil on canvas, 44 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. (113.6 x 123.8 cm). Jean Perréal’s most important attribution is this portrait of Louis XII who was King of France from 1498 to 1515. Louis XII was married three…

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FRANCE. French art in the 15th Century.

FEATURE image: DETAIL, Henri Bellechose (1415-1440), École de Bourgogne, Retable de saint Denis, 1416, https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010063178 Retable de Saint Denis, (above), was completed in 1416 for the church of the Charterhouse of Champmol that is adjacent to Dijon. The artwork’s attribution has long been debated between Bellechose and Jean Malouel (1370-1415). Written evidence points to Bellechose possibly only…

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Painting and graphic art of EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944), Norway’s Symbolist/Expressionist Artist who, making “The Scream” depicted the individual’s anguish in modern society.

FEATURE image: Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895, pastel on cardboard, private collection. By John P. Walsh Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Symbolist and Expressionist artist from Norway. In the 1890s, anti-naturalism mainly took the form of Symbolism – that is, the fascination with many types of literature and the inclination to draw upon these sources…

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JAPAN. UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858). Ukiyo-e Master.

FEATURE image: Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige, 1858, Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō and his vertical format landscape series One Hundred Views of Edo. His subjects are an expansion of the ukiyo-e genre, adding to its usual focus…

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RUSSIA. From 1889 to the Blue Rider in Munich in 1911, Russian émigré artist ALEXEI VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941) and the origins of German Expressionist Painting.

FEATURE Image: Jawlensky, Hügel (Hills), 1912, oil on hardboard, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), Russian-émigré German Expressionist painter. SUMMARY: Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), a young Russian-émigré artist to Germany beginning in the mid 1890’s, became one of the most progressive avant-garde modernist artists of his generation. His international search—from Russia to France,…

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ITALY. Italian art in the 13th-18th Centuries.

FEATURE image: Dosso Dossi (c. 1489–1542), Melissa, 1520s. 69.25 x 68.5 inches, Borghese Gallery, Rome. Duccio Di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319). The artistic tradition of the Sienese master, Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1255-c. 1319) was based on older Greek painting. Duccio, however, was no less “modern” than Giotto (1266-1377). Giotto, who was trained by Cimabue (1240-1302), directed…

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ITALY. In Florence, THE BATTLE OF ANGHIARI (1503-06) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and his fabled competition with Michelangelo for the laurel of Greatest High Renaissance Artist.

FEATURE image: Peter Paul Rubens, Copy of Leonardo’s Battle of the Standard (from the Battle of Anghiari), 1603, Louvre. On May 2, 2019, the world remembered the day 500 years ago when Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance artist and polymath, died. The 67-year-old applied the spheres of the human brain to its many branches of…

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UNITED STATES. LEE MILLER (1907-1977), Photographer, Surrealist, and Aesthete, Part 1: the Poughkeepsie years, 1907-1925.

FEATURE image: The Millers in 1920. Lee, Erik, Theodore, Florence and John. The Millers, Theodore, Elizabeth Lee, Erik, John and Florence, in 1923. By John P. Walsh In the first decades of the twentieth century it became increasingly common practice for established American families to reflect and display their personal lives as well as social…

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FRANCE. Photographic Portraits by NADAR (1820-1910) of 19th Century French Cultural Figures in Paris.

FEATURE image: Nadar, Rosine Stolz (1815-1903), Paris, c.1857. Rosine Stoltz was a French mezzo-soprano. By John P. Walsh. This presentation is excerpted from content of university course I taught whose research project is ongoing. Nadar was born on April 6, 1820 to 26-year-old Thérèse Maillet and 49-year-old Victor Tournachon at 195 rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. His…

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FRANCE. Dans Le Vieux Paris: EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927), photographer.

FEATURE image: Eugène Atget, Place Saint-Médard, 1889-99. Eugène Atget, Photographer’s Studio, c. 1910. Atget was born in 1857 near Bordeaux (Libourne) and after his parents died in 1862, the 5-year-old boy was brought up by his grandparents in Bordeaux. Atget received a solid education and, similar to Paul Gauguin, eventually went to sea in the…

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FRANCE. POST-IMPRESSIONISM. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901): COMPLETE 31 Mass-Produced COLOR POSTERS, 1891-1900.

FEATURE image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), La Revue Blanche, 1895, Paris. Lithograph in four colors. By John P. Walsh The nineteenth century in France brought about a radical transformation of the role of the artist. In place of artwork for aristocratic patrons, artists in all media were increasingly left to their own devices and began…

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UNITED STATES. Former Miss Denmark to Playboy Model DANE ARDEN (ELSA SØRENSEN) poses as a carhop in a 1950’s Glamour Photograph. Historical Context.

FEATURE image: “Galaxy Carhop” by JackAZ Photo is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. By John P. Walsh Dane Arden (1934-2013) was an international magazine model in the 1950’s and 1960’s. She was born Elsa Sørensen on March 25, 1934 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Following her win of the title of Miss Denmark as a teenager she went to live with…

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BRITAIN. Complete signed, dated, documented, inscribed artwork (33 paintings) of MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (c. 1562-1636).

FEATURE image: Detail, Queen Elizabeth I. Ditchley portrait. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1592. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Captain Thomas Lee in Irish Dress, oil on canvas, 1594 (purchased 1980), Tate Britain. Captain Thomas Lee (c.1551-1601) had his portrait painted by 33-year-old Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges, 1561-1636) in London in 1594. Captain Lee was 43 years old…

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SPAIN. Francisco de GOYA (1746-1828), Madrid, Spain, First Suites of Tapestry Cartoons for the Princes of Asturias, 1775 to 1778.

FEATURED image: Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), The Kite (detail), 1777/78. Oil on canvas, 269 x 285 cm. These are a selection of the first two suites of decorative tapestry cartoons (or designs) completed for El Escorial in 1775 and El Palacio Real del Pardo between 1776 and 1778 by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) . Both…

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UNITED STATES. Works of DAVID ADLER (1882-1949), Chicago Beaux-Arts architect of “the Great House.”

FEATURE image: Staff members of The Charles A. Stonehill Estate on the beach, c. 1912. By John P. Walsh David Adler (January 3, 1882 – September 27, 1949) was an American architect who made major contributions in domestic architecture for mostly affluent clients in and around Chicago. Different than German-American modernist architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) who also practiced…

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