This post is about Madonna and Child paintings by Raphael and Botticelli in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. Raphael, Madonna with Child, St.
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Ancient Greek Art in Berlin’s “Altes Museum”
I took these photographs when I visited the “Altes Museum” in Berlin in 2002. I checked recently the online collection
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Some of the photos I took when I visited Berlin in 2002.
Continue readingEmil Nolde Graphik – 12 Kunstkarten – 12 Etchings on cards
Emil Nolde is one of my favourite German artists. Today I present 12 of his etchings printed on post cards.
Continue readingCaspar David Friedrich: “the most solitary of the solitary”
First time I saw “The Wanderer”, CD Friedrich’s masterpiece, it was on the front cover of Nietzsche’s book “Thus spoke
Continue readingA journey in Romanesque and Gothic Art
I have started reading the “History of European Culture”, by Panayiotis Kanellopoulos (1902 – 1986), a Greek author and politician.
Continue readingThe Discovery of Matthias Grunewald: a personal journey
Featured Image: Grünewald in a 19th century depiction on the de:Frankoniabrunnen, by Ferdinand von Miller (1824), now in front of the Würzburg Residence.
Continue readingMartin Schongauer: Painter and engraver (1450 – 1491)
This post is about Martin Schongauer, a Northern European painter and engraver whose work I got to know in the
Continue readingAugust Macke’s untimely death: 26 September 1914
August Macke was born in 1887 and died in September 1914 in the trenches of Champagne, at the age of
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