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Jacopo Bassano’s Adoration of the Kings (1542), Guercino’s The Virgin & Child (c1615) & Giovanni Battista Pittoni’s (1725) The Apotheosis of St Jerome with St Peter of Alcántara & a Franciscan. The historic-style hanging of works in the museum add to their dramatic qualities.
The gallery has a great group of early Renaissance works. Detail from Botticelli’s Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child (c1490), Leonardo’s Study of Dogs Paws (c1480) & Raphael’s Drawing of A Kneeling Nude Woman (c1518)
England’s greatest 18th C painter is represented by some of his most moving works - paintings of his daughters. Gainsborough (The Painter’s Daughters, 1756; 1759-61 & Mr & Mrs Andrews, c1750)
Thread: Tomorrow I’m launching #BohanPrint This is a project aimed at addressing anxiety amongst those self-isolating.
Each day I will share a jpeg of a drawing which can be coloured in. Colouring in is an excellent mind relaxation technique. #Convid19uk #Coronavirusireland
Velázquez (1599-1660) painted The Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus aged just 19 or 20. It is his first known work. The discovery of the scene behind the Maid demonstrates its authenticity. It is a tour de force by the young Master - he is considered the painter’s painter!
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) painted this, The Funeral of Patroclus, in 1778. It is his first neoclassical work & he would go on to be the master of the neoclassical movement. It was painted in Rome. Now recognised as seminal in his oeuvre, it was once a table top!
François Boucher (c1751) depicts the courtesan Mademoiselle O’Murphy in this drawing. A girl of Irish extraction she holds the laurels for possibly being the most famous Irish woman in art. The drawing is a new acquisition- for comparison here’s the finished picture (in Cologne)
Poussin (1594-1665) painted Acis & Galatea. Although created in Rome in 1627-8, this stunning mythological piece has a classic French colour palette. The lovers are exquisitely portrayed. Poussin is out of favour now but deserves more interest.
She died in 1986 & her ashes were spread at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. She is recognised as one of the great American artists of the 20th C. E River from the 30th Floor of the Shelton Hotel (1928), Dark Iris No 1 (1927), Grey, Blue & Black - Pink Circle (1929) & Black Cross (1929)
In the ‘60s views from airplane windows inspired her almost hallucinatory series of astonishing Cloudscapes. In the Patio VIII (1950), Starlight Night (1963) , Sky Above Clouds IV (1965) & Not from my Garden (1967)