Moroni: Portrait of an artist
At university, I kept a dog-eared postcard of Giovan Battista Moroni’s painting ‘The Tailor’ stuck in pride of place on the wall …
Albrecht Dürer, Renaissance man
Ask someone to name a great Renaissance artist, and the answers you’ll hear are most likely Italian: Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, Botticelli. I …
A Personal Farewell
When I decided to study Fine Art in England, people asked me “Do you want to become an artist? Surely you can’t …
Behind the scenes
Earlier this week, I was invited to a private view of this year’s summer exhibition at the National Gallery in London, Vermeer …
To beard or not to beard
“A man with a beard is a man with a secret.” I vividly remember my late grandfather imparting this pearl of wisdom …
True Romance – Caspar David Friedrich
It was a miserable weekend weather-wise – rain, rain, rain and it never really got light, especially on Saturday. By Sunday afternoon …
Season’s Greetings from akg-images
From all of us to all of you: Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noël, Merry Christmas!
Folter auf der Leinwand – Die Schindung des Marsyas von Tizian
Vor einigen Jahren besuchte ich eine Tizian-Ausstellung, einer der Blockbuster der heutigen Kunstwelt. Nie war ich eine große Liebhaberin von Tizians …
Torture on canvas – Titian’s „Flaying of Marsyas“
A few years back I went to one of those blockbuster exhibitions – paintings by Titian in the National Gallery in London. …
Alte Liebe
Ich bin verliebt – in einen Renaissancemann – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Als ich das erste Mal Botticellis „Young Man“ in …