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Cerebral ARTemisia

Exploring History and Culture through Art

Japanese Landscapes: Sublime Beauty and Terror

A Short Exhibition Catalogue of a Virtual Japanese Art Show

#ArtHistory, #Earthquakes, #Japan, #JapaneseArt, #Landscapes, #Typhoons, Virtual Exhibition

Photo Album: Musee d’Art Roger Quilliot – Clermont-Ferrand, France

Volcanic sculptures and other fine arts in Auvergne

Nirvana Personified: Terracotta Enlightenment at the Musée Guimet

An experience in visual enlightenment with a gaze at this masterpiece of ceramic portraiture

Battista Dossi’s The Battle of Orlando & Rodomonte: Chivalrous Folly In Renaissance Ferrara

With whimsy and humor, Battista Dossi narrates a scene from Ariosto’s epic poem

Battista Dossi, chivalry, Este, Ferrara, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Renaissance, Rodomonte, School of Ferrara

Recent encounters…

A Brief Visual Examination of Three Exhibition Spaces:
* Van Gogh, Vase with Poppies, Wadsworth Atheneum, (Hartford)
* Yale Center for British Art, (New Haven)
* BFA Thesis Show at The Joseloff Gallery, (University of Hartford)

British Art, Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, Louis Kahn, New Haven, Poppies, University of Hartford, Vincent van Gogh, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale

The Sensational Dendera Zodiac

An artifact from Egyptian Antiquity creates turmoil in post-Revolution France

Antiquities, Art History, Cleopatra, Dendera, Egyptian Art, French History, Louvre, Napoleon, Ptolemaic dynasty, Zodiac

Feeding the Dead in Ancient Egypt: Stela of Mentuwoser

On language, food, and death in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt, Art History, hieroglyphs

Art Ceramics: From Industrial Art Nouveau to Handmade Arts and Crafts

Comparing René Binet and Adelaide Alsop Robineau

Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Ceramics

An introduction

Why I write about art…

#ArtHistory
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