Matthew paintings art history
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An Anecdotal History of Art (According to Matthew Collings), Part One: History Haunts Itself
Joan Mitchell’s studio in the 1950s. “Heroes-era” David Bowie is there with her. So is Louise Bourgeois, and Claude Monet, partially translucent, standing behind Joan Mitchell’s dog. A new painting hangs on the wall under spotlights.
Since 2020, Matthew Collings has made over 2000 art history drawings in colored pencil on A4 paper. Collings is a British artist, art-writer, TV personality and, as I learned in our video conversation last month, a one-time kidnap victim. He posts the drawings on Instagram shortly after making them. The drawings are usually accompanied by a title or descriptive caption, some of them long enough to tell a story. They are sold through Artist Support Pledge an art community-marketplace. Eventually, images of the drawings will be edited into a book, though Collings’ plans around that are still forming.
Art History 101 textbooks like Gardner’s Art Through
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NEWS & MEDIA
15 November 2019
The famous cycle of paintings by Caravaggio, dedicated to St. Matthew, is online with Haltadefinizione
The three paintings dedicated to Saint Matthew and the Angel, theMartyrdom of Saint Matthewand the Calling of Saint Matthew are now online on our website, in Gigapixel resolution, for scholars and art lovers.
The masterpieces by Caravaggio enrich today our image bank in which many masterpiece can already be seen in ultra-high definition thanks to our online viewer. The Church of St. Louis of the French, in Rome, houses many pieces of art, but it is world-renowned because of the Contarelli Chapel: at the end of the left aisle, the Chapel is some kind of treasure chest, holding the three canvases dedicated to St. Matthew.
Painted between 1599 and 1602, hung from left to right these paintings follow a precise pattern narrating the history of St. Matthew: the Calling on the left, then the Saint with the Angel and, o
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THE EASTER BUNNY: EVOLUTION OF A SYMBOL
BBC CULTURE
From lust to Bugs Bunny – the rabbit has taken on different meanings throughout history, in global folklore and artistic symbolism. But how did it become the poster boy for Easter? Matthew Wilson finds out.
THE MAN BEHIND A COVERT WW2 OPERATION
BBC CULTURE
The new Netflix series Transatlantic explores a covert WW2 operation to rescue artists, intellectuals and authors from Nazi-occupied Europe, writes Matthew Wilson. Who was Varian Fry, the man behind this mission, and what was his impact on cultural history?
FIVE HIDDEN SYMBOLS IN VERMEER'S PAINTINGS
BBC CULTURE
A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages