In the right panel of Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych (circa 1455), the Virgin Mary sits with the baby Jesus, surrounded by angels. The left panel features the man who commissioned the work, Étienne ...
In 2003, when the Getty Museum acquired three images from the 15th-century manuscript Hours of Louis XII, its curators had a hunch that one of the pictures was incomplete. Their suspicions made sense: ...
Artist: Piero della Francesca (c1415/20-1492) is an artist of mathematics and spirituality, author of texts on perspective and painter of ethereal religious scenes such as his Baptism of Christ and ...
Here at The Phoblographer, we get really excited about gear that helps push art and creativity. Sure, many camera manufacturers are content with checking off a few technical boxes – a bump in ...
Until recently, the rare diptych “The Crucifixion” and “The Last Judgment” (c. 1440-41) by Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)—among the most beloved artworks in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—was one ...
Artist: English, French, Italian and Bohemian workers have been proposed as authors of this gothic painted diptych, a folding, portable object just over 50cm high consisting of two oak panels on ...
An exquisite diptych which links Albrecht Dürer and Christian Ethiopia is being investigated at the British Museum, raising a fascinating story of cross-cultural links. One side of the diptych was ...
Plain comes from the later part of Joan Mitchell’s career. The diptych was acquired directly from New York’s Robert Miller Gallery just two days after the opening of Mitchell’s first solo exhibition ...