Paris exhibit serves revisions of Old Masters Nov 18, 2009
The Big SupperYou could stand for hours before Rancinan's take on the Eugene Delacroix' 1831 painting "Liberty Leading the People" which features a bare-breasted woman standing on a body-strewn barricade and brandishing a tricolor flag without soaking in all the visual winks and the profusion of evocative, even provocative details. Rancinan swaps the semi-clad Liberty for a woman in a black niqab and replaces the original street urchin by her side with a child soldier holding a... (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Cleopatra in 19th Century Art Aug 14, 2009
Nonetheless, Shakespeare s Antony and Cleopatra has Cleopatra inquiring about the "pretty worm" of the Nile or a snake with a fatal bite, this scene immortalized in Eugene Delacroix s 1838 Cleopatra and The Peasant. In a painting by fellow French Orientalist Jean Andr; Rixens (1846-1924), the story of the asp is perpetuated, with a stunning glimpse of the dead Cleopatra and her also mortally-bitten handmaiden, while the basket of figs now lies on the floor of the Egyptian queen s final retreat. (Suite101.com)
Prints and paws all over the walls Aug 8, 2009
In one lithograph by the French artist Eugene Delacroix, a lion crouches in a mountain cave, gnawing on a hare. Just look at the character in that face,'' Bourke says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Virginia Deknatel, collector of art, museum benefactor Apr 18, 2009
"Frederick Deknatel taught at Harvard for some 40 years, where he became the William Door Boardman professor. His writings on the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were among the first significant assessments in English of his work.With her husband, Mrs. Deknatel began collecting works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Eugene Delacroix, and Emile Nolde. Mrs. Deknatel also purchased sculptures by Henry Moore, prints and drawings by Jasper Johns, along with prints and... (Boston Globe)
