Tuesday, February 28, 2023

MNAC: 1200's: Influences from the Sea

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  Byzantine influence came as a wave into Europe in the 1200s, especially Barcelona and Catalonia as part of Aragon, open to Mediterranean t...

MNAC: Gothic Art: 1250-1500

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Below is just a small sampling of Gothic Catalan art in the MNAC, religious altars, painted or carved wood.    Depictions of saints and mart...

Hike up Monserrat

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  A protected moist crevice revealed Hellebore, above and Hepatica below.

Monserrat Monastery

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  Note this exposed outcrop below on the way up to the monastery and the same rock used in constructing the church, see below.  This has lon...

Zurich Basics

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Zurich Walk Along the Lake

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A bright and somewhat misty day.  There are lots of construction cranes. Going south, the mountains emerged in the distance.  

Kunsthaus Zurich: Collections and Provenance

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  The Zurich Kunsthaus has a new modern addition called the Chipperfield Building.  It houses two collections on loan, the Merzbacher collec...

Kunsthaus Zurich: Die Brücke

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  Die Brücke started in Dresden around 1905 as a German expressionist group that, like the French Fauves, expressed emotions through intense...

Kunsthaus Zurich: Der Blaue Reiter/The Blue Rider

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  The Blue Rider group formed in Munich around 1911-12 and was associated with Wassily Kandinsky and his partner Gabriele Munter, Marianne v...

Kunsthaus Zurich: Maurice de Vlaminck

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  Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)  is represented in both the Merzbacher and the Bührle of the Zurich art museum collections with vibrant an...