Stephan Brechtel the Elder (1523 – 1574) was a German mathematician. However, he was also a gunsmith, globe, sundial and surveying equipment maker and learned much about the art of calligraphy in Nuremberg, Germany, under the scribe Johann Neudörfer. He was active in his native Bamberg and Leipzig, as well as Nuremberg, where he alsoContinue reading “Nuremberg Calligraphy”
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Life Maps: An Interview with Nurit David
Born in 1952 in Tel Aviv, Nurit David is one of Israel’s most preeminent visual artists. Since 1982 she has worked with the Givon Gallery and exhibited in many places. Her works can also be found in the public collections of museums such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of ArtContinue reading “Life Maps: An Interview with Nurit David”
Considerations on Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Stages of Life”
The period of the Romantic movement was a time in arts history that proposed people another way of approaching life than the one they had and of their everyday philosophy, pushing to put forward feelings, dreaming and emotions. Romantic artists worked on creating beautiful works that would express the ineffable. One of theContinue reading “Considerations on Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Stages of Life””
Consideration’s on Caspar David Friedrich’s “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow”
Caspar David Friedrich was a German painter who lived in the XIXth century and who is considered one of the most important Romantic artists. His paintings are known for being charged with codes and allegories with religious allegories. This is also the case in the painting titled “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow”, “Gebirgslandschaft mitContinue reading “Consideration’s on Caspar David Friedrich’s “Mountain Landscape with Rainbow””
Horses of Nepal Book
The Royal Library of Denmark has a book catalogued as “Illustrated work with horses from Nepal”. The book is mysterious in nature, given that the Library’s website does not feature any background information on it. However, it does seem to be a copy or a derivate work of “A Treatise on the Nature and IllnessesContinue reading “Horses of Nepal Book”
Composing Worlds with Nurit David
Nurit David is an Israeli artist whose body of work covers several decades. She has worked with various mediums and composed coherent worlds that are highly intriguing. While most of her works are not collages per se, they have a collage quality, where concepts and ideas, as well as different emotions meets. And this isContinue reading “Composing Worlds with Nurit David”
Representations of Political Power
Constructing power In the course of history, power has always had one of the most important roles in arts and cultural products. The methods of framing and visually constructing power have been carefully created and developed. Even though we might think that the ancient Egyptians and Greeks had more naive ways of representing the ideaContinue reading “Representations of Political Power”