Doing History in Public

Tag: Art history

  • 18. A Treasure Trove of Plundered Art

    18. A Treasure Trove of Plundered Art

    By Callie Belback During the Second World War, as European cities fell to the Nazis, art conservators in the United States began to advocate for a field-based conservation corps whose duty would be to identify and protect cultural treasures. This soon became the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Allies (MFA). The MFA…

  • 15. Painting Velvet

    15. Painting Velvet

    by Sophia Feist Cover Image & Fig. 1 – Jan van Eyck, The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm, Groeningemuseum, Bruges (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) One of my favorite paintings is Jan van Eyck’s The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434-1436). One of my…

  • 24. Birthday Candles for Good Luck – A Look at Georges de la Tour’s Chiaroscuro

    24. Birthday Candles for Good Luck – A Look at Georges de la Tour’s Chiaroscuro

    by Tiffany Laloy At the height of Counter-Reformation France in the XVIIth century, Baroque art was in part used as a tool to promote the Catholic faith and to inspire and impress the masses.[1] And whilst the extravagance and opulence of some of these religious paintings did indeed arouse emotion and religious fervor, Georges de…