This Artist’s Life by Mel Ahlborn

A Paint More Precious Than Gold

A Paint More Precious Than Gold

FROM GETTY.EDU A Paint More Precious Than Gold - How to Make Ultramarine Blue There is a blue so exquisite, its hue so mesmerizing, that its use was reserved for...

A Paint More Precious Than Gold

FROM GETTY.EDU A Paint More Precious Than Gold - How to Make Ultramarine Blue There is a blue so exquisite, its hue so mesmerizing, that its use was reserved for...

Finding Time to Paint

Finding Time to Paint

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES If Winston Churchill can find time to paint, and paint well, what’s your excuse?And just look at these colors! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/arts/design/churchill-art-paintings-fans.html    

Finding Time to Paint

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES If Winston Churchill can find time to paint, and paint well, what’s your excuse?And just look at these colors! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/arts/design/churchill-art-paintings-fans.html    

In Detail - The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

In Detail - The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

From Google Arts & Culture and the Courtlauld Institute of Art Look more closely at Botticelli’s ‘Trinity’ altarpiece with Dr Scott Nethersole, Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1500, at The...

In Detail - The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

From Google Arts & Culture and the Courtlauld Institute of Art Look more closely at Botticelli’s ‘Trinity’ altarpiece with Dr Scott Nethersole, Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1500, at The...

The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

From Google Arts & Culture “This altarpiece is one of Sandro Botticelli's most important paintings in the United Kingdom. Designed to be set on an altar, a vision of the...

The ‘Trinity’ Altarpiece - Botticelli

From Google Arts & Culture “This altarpiece is one of Sandro Botticelli's most important paintings in the United Kingdom. Designed to be set on an altar, a vision of the...

A Caravaggio Madonna - Rest on the Flight

A Caravaggio Madonna - Rest on the Flight

“It has often been pointed out that there is a close similarity between the angel  playing the violin in Caravaggio’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt and the figure of…” -Irving Lavin

A Caravaggio Madonna - Rest on the Flight

“It has often been pointed out that there is a close similarity between the angel  playing the violin in Caravaggio’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt and the figure of…” -Irving Lavin

Quilt artist links cultures, spiritual traditions

Quilt artist links cultures, spiritual traditions

The Rev. Posey Krakowsky’s sumptuous quilts not only sew various disparate fabrics, surface designs and textures to one another, they also stitch together diverse cultural and spiritual traditions, from Pre-Columbian...

Quilt artist links cultures, spiritual traditions

The Rev. Posey Krakowsky’s sumptuous quilts not only sew various disparate fabrics, surface designs and textures to one another, they also stitch together diverse cultural and spiritual traditions, from Pre-Columbian...