Art
What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success
Sentimentality would creep into the artist's late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.
John Constable
Art
How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art
The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century.
Art
The Merits of Old Masters' B-Sides, at the Frick
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant mom
Books
The Mouse, an Unexpected and Enduring Art Muse
As one of the most common mammals on our planet, the diminutive mouse has been scurrying its way into art for centuries. The rodent has now finally received its own art compendium with Lorna Owen's Mouse Muse: The Mouse in Art, out next week from Monacelli Press.