Meintest du rosa?
The Palestinian-American poet is inspired by „Falling Man“ by Max Beckmann, her mother’s teacher.
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s „Roma
Fragonard et Hubert Robert à Roma, Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome, 1990
Robert a Roma (Rome, 1990), 21 – 30.
Artists turn to the color blue to conjure depth, mood, and atmosphere. It recalls both the sky and the sea. But blue pigment was sometimes costly. Ultramarine blue was made from lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone mined in what is now Afghanistan. For centuries of Western art, it was reserved solely for painting the Virgin Mary’s cloak.
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s „Roma
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) wears the red biretta and cape of a cardinal. At the time Titian painted this portrait, Bembo had recently been elevated to that status in honor of his service to the Church and his scholarly career, although the writer’s literary output was almost entirely secular.
pittura italiana, studi storico-critici: le Gallerie Borghese e Doria-Pamphi in Roma
recto, numerical notations overall; lower right verso in red chalk: disegno fate a Roma
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is inspired by the French painter’s work made “in the lull before history dissolves.”
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s „Roma
Un pittore musico tra Venezia e Roma (1501-1511).
Inscriptions lightly incised on shell between figure’s legs: CD [or (A)] / CARPEAUX / ROMA
Between 1600 and 1608, Peter Paul Rubens lived and worked in Italy, where he immersed himself in the study of ancient sculpture. He admired the idealized beauty of its classical forms and recognized its importance as a pictorial source for Greek and Roman history.
, 2018-2019, no. 7, repro. 2023 Il tocco di Pigmalione: Rubens e la scultura a Roma
