Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well it looks like the two groundhogs must have been a little confused as there is certainly no sign of an early spring. Got 3 or 4 inches of snow this morning with a couple of nasty days ahead. Certainly not a big storm but just enough to be a nuisance and require having someone come and take care of it. I can only dream of milder weather.
I found myself back at the Met this week for their photography exhibition, Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey. It was a very large installation in what I would have referred to as two galleries, each with multiple rooms. Just before the drawing corridor are three connected galleries that are devoted to special exhibitions. Just now I discovered that each of them is named after a Met benefactor, The Harriette and Noel Levine Gallery, The Karen B. Cohen Gallery and The Charles Z. Offin Gallery. In the Rodin and European painting corridor, off which lies the drawing corridor, there is another special gallery, this one devoted to photography and it is also named for a benefactor, The Howard Gilman Gallery. I’ve seen many exhibitions in all these galleries but again today I discovered that they can be connected. Usually they are kept separate by moveable walls.
It was a difficult exhibit for me as the plates are small and behind glass and my eyes are weak. So, like you, I will get my pleasure from viewing these photos on the web.
This is a link to the Met Overview page with a short video explaining how de Prangey created his double exposures. There are also links to view the exhibit gallery by gallery as well as all the objects in the exhibit.
https://tinyurl.com/y4xxe5es These are various reviews of the exhibit, all with enlarged illustrations which helps, not to make a pun, enormously.
Musee Magazine
http://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/2/4/monumental-journey-a-review-of-the-daguerreotypes-of-girault-de-prangey New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/arts/design/photography-girault-de-prangey-met-museum.html Art & Object – Slide show with a number of objects
https://www.artandobject.com/articles/rediscovering-forgotten-pioneer-photography These are some of the things I especially enjoyed. There were explanatory notes under each in picture in the exhibit which unfortunately weren’t transferred to the website.
Tuileries, Paris – This was taken in 1841 and is an illustration of something that no longer exists. In 1871 the Paris Commune took over the French government and did battle with the existing government. It was open civil war and the Commune ordered buildings that represent Royalty to be burned and the Tuileries were set aflame. The Richelieu library of the Louvre, connected to the Tuileries, was also set on fire and entirely destroyed but happily the rest of the Louvre was saved by the efforts of the museum curators and fire brigades.
https://tinyurl.com/y2kg4z9s Promenade et tours d’enceinte du palais de l’Alhambra à Grenade (Towers surrounding the Alhambra Palace, Granada) – This was the only painting in the exhibit and is a lovely romanticized depiction of the Alhambra. I found a larger version in the second link.
http://tinyurl.com/y65w3oj8 http://www.musees-langres.fr/musee-dart-et-dhistoire/vde-mah/promenade-et-tours-denceinte-du-palais-de-lalhambra-a-grenade/ Ramesseum, Thebes – This is one of the few watercolors in the exhibit, the second link is the daguerreotype.
http://tinyurl.com/yxuswkpq https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/original/DP-13897-025.jpg Noël-Marie-Paymal Lerebours and Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau - Excursions Daguerriennes. Vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe – This is one of several etchings done after daguerreotypes that are at the link. You can click on others. Second link is an enlargement. This shows the Parthenon. Considering how much has been destroyed over the years it’s remarkable how much of this temple remains. And the amount of labor to create it must have been awesome not to mention backbreaking for the poor slaves who had to do it.
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/269123/1799887/main-image http://tinyurl.com/y27gvd3p North and East Sides of the Parthenon, Athens – This is a daguerreotype.
http://tinyurl.com/y3w2cgbl Column of Trajan, Rome – Magnificent structure which contains a spiral staircase of 185 steps. Girault was presumably one of the first to brave the climb with the equipment required to make a panoramic photograph overlooking the city, with the Colosseum at center. The first link is the column, the second is the view. The third is the view enlarged.
http://tinyurl.com/y5zzk6yt http://tinyurl.com/y5997v7t http://tinyurl.com/y2596oul Aleppo, Viewed from the Antioch Gate – In the top center of the picture is the minaret of the Great Mosque. This is something that no longer exists due to the war in Syria. The pointless destruction of ancient antiquities by fanatics is something to be greatly regretted along with the monstrous loss of life.
http://tinyurl.com/y4rn66gf These photographs are really fascinating as you go through them and see the past unfold before your eyes as captured by a very talented gentleman.
In other art news, this will be in Sunday’s Magazine section of the New York Times. It’s a very long article on Jan Six who discovered a new Rembrandt at a Christie’s auction and then later found a second one. I initially read about this in September. It’s a fascinating article delving into who he is, the history of his family, the unbelievable collection of Old Master’s that are in the family home and a controversy over whether he discovered the first painting on his own. He’s also doing something I can really appreciate, he has set himself the task of seeing every single acknowledged Rembrandt in the world and has currently seen 80% of them. He discusses the frames for certain paintings in the family collection and why they should be changed. I recently read an article about a Thomas Cole painting that was restored to an original frame and general consensus was that it had vastly improved the quality of the painting. I sent my brother the article saying I didn’t see any difference between the two images, one in each frame. He wrote back and told me he agreed with consensus and why. I replied that for me I guess the problem is with my poor vision but that I would accept consensus. In this article Six makes a very valid case for why he wants to change the frames and I think it makes it that much clearer to me, again, no pun intended.
Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html This article is a follow up to the recent one on the Irving’s, collectors of Asian art who were great benefactors of the Met. It speaks of the remainder of their collection after their bequests to the Met. It’s interesting in that it points out they worked with the Met curators to fill in gaps in the Met’s collection donating not necessarily the most expensive items but things the Met lacked and wanted.
How to Sell the Art Your Parents Spent Their Lives Collecting - Sysco Corp. founder Herbert Irving and his wife, Florence, spent years building a collection of Asian art. Now their estate is selling it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-27/how-to-sell-the-art-your-parents-spent-their-lives-collecting?srnd=pursuits-vp This looks to be a great exhibit coupling Botticelli with a cartoonist. I visited the Gardner many years ago and it was a treat. I’d like to go back but it’s a very long trip on the train.
Botticelli’s Beauties Meet Contemporary Cartoons at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—See Works From the Show Here
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/botticelli-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-1471342 And all that’s left now is the Flickrs.
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