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UK Places Export Ban on Joshua Reynolds’ £50M “Portrait of Omai”

The deadline is July 10 to keep the 18th-century portrait of the first Polynesian to visit the UK in the country. The famous Omai accompanied Captain Cook on his 2nd voyage in 1774.

Baroque art soon spread out of Italy, exported by the likes of Peter Paul Rubens, the key proponent of Flemish Baroque. His vigorous, energetic and sensual flair adhered to the style accorded by the Council of Trent’s guidelines on Catholic Counter-Reformation Art (c.1560-1700).

On the first day at @friezeofficial LA 2022, @HauserWirth sold out its entire stand that is dedicated solely to the drawings, watercolors and multimedia collages of celebrated contemporary French artist Camille Henrot.

Opening April 6, an exhibition at the @WallaceMuseum in London will explore Walt Disney’s fascination with 18th-century French painting, objets d’art and furniture, displaying 120 of his hand-drawn animations alongside 30 Rococo artworks. #InspiringWaltDisney

#Mannerism

Gian Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584) – a theoretical text that codifies aesthetics in a more formalized and academic manner - is seen as a seminal text in the development of Italian mannerist theories.

Carlo Carrà was born #OTD in 1881.

The Italian was a key figure in the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy at the start of the 20th century. However, during WWI he turned to the “metaphysical painting” of de Chirico, then to an archaicism inspired by Giotto and Masaccio.

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In "Melencolia I", #Dürer compares himself to the tortured intellectual archetype derived from ancient Greek medical texts about the four humors. Dürer thus reflects the changing perception of the artist that was taking place in Italy: from craftsman, to artist, to genius.

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With the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1440, printmaking flourished. #Dürer exploited a nascent consumer culture with the medium of woodcutting and engraving: disseminating his work cheaply and quickly, print ensured he had an unusually broad audience.

The @mfaboston has returned a painting by Dutch landscape painter Salomon van Ruysdael (1602-1670) to the heirs of Ferenc Chorin, a Jewish collector who had deposited the work in a Hungarian bank vault, but found the vault emptied by Nazis in 1945.

[Quattrocento]

Great attempts were made in the depiction of perspective, as illusionistic trompe l’oeil painting techniques such as foreshortening grew.

Andrea Mategna (1431-1506), though not always mathematically correct, mastered perspective in an unprecedented way.