A few months ago, I read this comment from a visitor who experienced our Spanish language program Arte y Café […]
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Work of the Week: Unknown Artist after Sebastiano Serlio,“Study for a Stage Design: Street Lined with Palatial Buildings”
We do not know who drew this delicate ink and chalk drawing. We do know, however, that it is a copy of a woodcut from a book rather famous at the time, the Second Book on Perspective by Italian architect and theorist Sebastiano Serlio (published in 1545). Today, Serlio is remembered as the author of the first architectural treatise in a modern language to be printed with illustrations, also the first to devote an entire section to the theatre. That is where we find the source image for this drawing, titled The Tragic Scene. The drawing may have been a lesson in perspective (apprentices repeatedly copied works by other artists in order to master various skills, types of compositions, or media), or a point of departure for a different composition.
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Work of the Week: David Hilliard, “Wiser than Despair”
David Hilliard(American, b. 1964), Wiser Than Despair, 2012, C-print, 24 in. x 80 in. The AlfondCollection of Contemporary Art at […]
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Work of the Week: Catherine Yass, “Lighthouse (North north west, distant)”
Catherine Yass (British, b. 1963), Lighthouse (North north west, distant), 2011, Photographic transparency, lightbox, 50 ¾ x 40 ¾ in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary […]
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Lavinia Fontana: The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion
Outside of my bias of having been trained as an Italienist, The Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion, is […]
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Work of the Week: Käthe Kollwitz, “Untitled (Mob [Family] with Dead Child)”
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945), Untitled (“Mob [Family] with Dead Child”), n.d., Dry point etching, Gift of Mrs. Ruth Funk, Cornell Fine Arts Museum 2001.04.09.PR […]
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The Notion of Place
Last season, it had been two years since we introduced the theme of Place as Metaphor for our main collection […]
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Ridley Howard: Paintings & Moments
Earlier this week I happened to get off the elevator on the second floor of The Alfond Inn. I had […]
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Jordan Casteel: Voice & Process
Jordan Casteel and I have Italy and New York in common as career influencers. It was during a semester spent […]
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Exuberance in Nicole Eisenman’s Painting
Last summer, when our museum was closed due to the pandemic and the future was very uncertain, we started looking for new […]
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THE POWER OF ART IN A WORLD OF COVID-19
In January 2020, we included Aquarium, a 3D video animation work by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos, in our museum’s collection […]
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The Different Lives Of Women
This post was written in 2019 and has been edited to update pertinent information. Rina Banerjee’s Her captivity was once […]
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A Museum’s Raison D’Etre: Art Encounters Catalog at Rollins Museum of Art
I read somewhere that collections are what museums are; exhibitions, what they do. This makes perfect sense, of course. Except […]
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Seductress or Rape Victim? Potiphar’s Wife in Art And Literature
One of the paintings in our current exhibition, Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art […]
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Dangerous Women: Renaissance Painters at Rollins Museum of Art
One of the rarest paintings in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s collection is Lavinia Fontana’s Dead Christ with Symbols of […]