Meintest du rosa?
The U.S. Poet Laureate responds to a circular set of sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy.
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s „Roma
The library’s image collections includes rare materials, such as photographic albums, photographs of artists, and reproductive prints.
chalcographic‘ institutions such as the Chalcographie du Louvre, Calcografia di Roma
[name scraped away] / qui etudia dans l’atelier David à Roma..
Explore works in our collection with celebrated American poets.
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s Roma
Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590–1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma
Although Nicolas Poussin’s work exerted an enormous influence on the development of French seventeenth-century painting, the artist perfected his style in Rome, incorporating the lessons of Renaissance and contemporary Italian painters into his own idiom. Poussin’s Baptism of Christ is one of a series of canvases illustrating the Seven Sacraments executed from 1638-1642 for his friend and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo.
Storia di una famiglia e del suo museo nella Roma seicentesca, Modena, 1992: figs
Painted late in her career when she was experimenting with unconventional viewpoints, Sky with Flat White Cloud is the second in a series of seven paintings in which Georgia O’Keeffe took inspiration from flying in an airplane high above the earth’s surface, observing the surrounding atmosphere and cloud formations. Excited by the experience of air travel, she remarked, “I’ve often thought how wonderful it would be to simply stand out in space and have nothing!� In this painting and two others in the group, she divided the vista into three horizontal bands;
Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007-2008, no. 72, repro. 2011 Georgia O’Keeffe, Fondazione Roma
Vernet / Rome 1833 [or Roma?]
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
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.Â
guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani’s „Roma
