Reflection of the day

postmodernism? Wouldn't we be better off with a re-rennaissance?

Did you know...

... that there is an Old Master known as "the Master of the female half-lengths"?
Presumably from the Netherlands, first half of the XVI century.

Quote

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.


Goethe

This made me smile today

I found it on the blog this is glamorous

Bad times for poetry, but thank the gods for powerful zooms I

from the National Gallery website, where you can see their whole collection, amazing.

Wish list

Berthe Morisot: The woman impressionist


From 15 November 2011 to 12 February 2012

At the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Madrid

Find of the day

This page on worldlabel.com with lovely and free vintage labels to print
They come originally from Suzee Que's flickr album. Thanks Suzee!
And you'll find more of these, as well as other vintage ephemera on Lunagirl Images at www.lunagirl.com

Ancient tapestries

Is it just me, or these are fascinating. I'm so glad that my small camera managed to capture the colours of these.

 

 

Courtiers playing at rural life, Netherlands, 1500-1520

 

Practical alternatives to expensive bags, coming soon

@Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Accessorize

via this website

Desigual

I love the patterns in skirts and dresses from the Spanish shop Desigual

These are from the spring summer 2011 collection

The way we were

Vintage postcard

Dante meets Beatrice

About painting

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elisabeth Siddal seated at an easel , 1852

quote

the curved line is the loveliest distance between two points...

:)

And the art quiz winner is...

I'm very happy, Agnes, who posts great images in her blog iiiinspired , has received safe and sound at her home in Hungary a little package with her prize for winning several of Las palabras mágicas art quizzes. I thought it would be a good idea to send to her some stationary: art postcards, mini-notebooks, a mini El Prado visitor's guide, stickers...
Enjoy the goodies Agnes!
XOX

The joy of cultural cooperation

ffs

What  great presents we can get from those people who believe and work for cultural cooperation. [I have recently discovered other interesting concepts: "cultural diplomacy", "spiritual convergence" and "clicktivism"...we'll have to look into those. It's not all android, cloud, and hedge funds you know]. I wish I   could go and see once more Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (1489-1490), a painting that has left her home in Cracow and will spend some time in London for a while. This painting just glows and subdues with its solid splendor.