Column | This artist elevated his subjects — with wooden clogs Jean-Étienne Liotard’s painting in Kansas City provides a portal into private rituals in the Ottoman Empire.

Wonderful #painting by #Liotard.

#SebastianSmee #Turkish #Ottoman

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#AdamPlunkett #LaurieGwenShapiro #SebastianSmee #ChelseaSteinauer-Scudder #HelenWhybrow⠀ #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025

Column | It’s clearly a masterpiece. But did Bruegel approve of the party he painted? Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance” is one of the most beloved Old Master paintings in the U.S.

Tons of making out.

#SebastianSmee #Bruegel #art #WeddingDance

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Pls welcome the #PulitzerPrizeWinning art critic, #SebastianSmee, to the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! His latest book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism, was published in 2024 and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024. (Photo by Amber Davis Tourlentes). #nonfiction #BMAC

Review | Her brilliant flower paintings will teach you all about abundance A traveling exhibition resurrects Rachel Ruysch, an ambitious Dutch painter (and two-time lottery winner) whose intricate still lifes still stun.

I’m off to #Toledo…

#art #painting #Ruysch #flowers #ToledoMuseumofArt #SebastianSmee

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Column | A painting of a miracle that’s nothing less than a miracle Duccio’s “The Raising of Lazarus” is a storytelling masterpiece.

Interesting weaving of #Duccio’s and #ArethaFranklin’s interpretation of the #Lazurus miracle.

#SebastianSmee

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Review | An unmissable show at the Met proves romanticism isn’t dead “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” a major retrospective of the German romantic at the Met, speaks of a world out of joint.

“We experience the sublime when something so dwarfs our mind’s capacities that the imagination cracks under the pressure of what it is being asked to grasp.”

#SebastianSmee #art #romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich #ego

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Column | Sensuous beauty in a state of spiritual bliss Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon — a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation.

Another great dive into #art by #SebastianSmee.

How the artist captures the hair between Mary’s fingers is so thoughtful.

#ArtemisaGentileschi #MaryMagdalene

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Review | These Renaissance masterpieces cost multiples of Michelangelo’s paintings The celebrated Battle of Pavia tapestries, on loan from Italy, are now touring the United States.

#SebastianSmee makes me want 2 travel 2 the #deYoung in SF 2 c the #BattleofPavia #tapestries.

The detail when u pinch 2 zoom the photos is incredible.

In the “invasion of French camp” portion/photo, what does the parrot on the box on the mule mean?

#art

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Can't read them after 2025 when my cancelled subscription runs out. I will miss #SebastianSmee and #RonCharles!!

Hitting The Links: 3/17/24 Some schmoozing at a comics festival, a bonus episode of the podcast, a whole ton of links, an accidental selfie, and more

New linky e-mail! This one's got my MoCCA-fest visit, a bonus episode of the show w/ @deanhaspiel.bsky.social, links by/re #SebastianSmee #RhondaGarelick #CandidaRoyalle #PhillipLopate #AnahidNersessian #ToddSnyder, & more, so GO READ! buttondown.email/vmspod/archi...