Shelley's Art History Blog

Leonardo and Venetian Painting Discoveries by Stan Parchin Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was commissioned in April 1483 by the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception in Milan to paint the central panel of ... Read More

While perusing the art news this week, it was difficult to ascertain the craziest item. Was it that Tony Blair lent a bust of Winston Churchill to George W. Bush ... Read More

by Stan Parchin Tuesday August 23, 2005 A 47-foot-high replica of the Statue of Liberty, created at the end of the Nineteenth Century, will be reinstalled in the rear sculpture garden of the Brooklyn ... Read More

Ah, a new request, and isn't it marvelous, the way they continue to roll in? "Dear Mrs. Guide, Would you please add an African American artist to the artist profiles? I don't ... Read More

Just read an interesting essay (which, sadly, I did not write) that offers an intriguing aside to the current Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams - His Art and His Textiles ... Read More

Getty Museum Gets New Director and National Gallery of Canada Gets Rare Renaissance Masterpiece By Stan Parchin Monday August 15, 2005 Dr. Michael Brand, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in ... Read More

Much as researching this has completely creeped me out, this newest reference list of artists deals with those who died by their own hands. Why, you ask? Well, because - ... Read More

60 years after the fact, a world-famous kiss has been immortalized with a sculpture in New York's Times Square. J. Seward Johnson, Jr., known for his life-sized, intricately realistic, bronze ... Read More

Remember that little public art mosaic fiasco around a year ago? The artist, apparently hoping no one would notice, slid back into Livermore to fix her spelling mistakes. Now, if ... Read More

This in from Marc: " ...so after reading about the push to save CBGBs, I was thinking about Andy Warhol and that whole NYC late 70s scene. Celebrities, etc. ... Why ... Read More

Excuse me, please, for truncating the title a bit. The full name of this special exhibition at The Frick Collection is From Callot to Greuze: French Drawings from Weimar, and ... Read More

Museums have to be creative marketing forces to remain visible in this Entertainment Byte Age. So, hats (and pants) off to the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Its current exhibition, The ... Read More

After a ton of reading on my part, here is another artists list - this time covering the Ancient Greeks. We ended up, actually, with two lists. Even I got ... Read More