If pushed, I would have to say that my all-time no.1 is Jan Vermeer. |
My favourite Museums and Art Galleries are : The National Gallery Musée du Louvre Gemäldegalerie Click on the name to be directed to their website. *These are only ones I have visited, so don't be offended if your favourite is not included |
I will be adding pictures for your pleasure and changing the selection at regular intervals. Use them as an inspiration to visit the museums |
Paintings from Stockholm
During my recent visit to the Swedish capital I visited the National Museum and the Modern Museum, both of which contain fine collections of art and sculpture, including works by Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Munch, Van Gogh in the National and Warhol, Dali, Picasso, Matisse in the Modern, but I have decided to present a few works by Swedish artists which impressed me. All of the names, apart from Roslin, were unfamiliar to me, so there were some nice surprises in store. Click on a photo for a larger image.
Alexander Roslin's 'Woman with a Veil' is the painting on the National Museum's posters |
Siri Derkert |
Staffan Hallström |
Isaac Grünewald |
Dick Bengtsonn |
Ernst Josephson |
Nils Kreuger |
Olle Baertling |
Don't know who this was by, but it rather took my fancy! |
A few masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home of the finest collection of Renaissance art in the world. Unfortunately they don't permit photography in the gallery, so I searched out these on the web.
Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, his only 'easel' painting
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Leonardo' 'Annunciation' |
A Botticelli Madonna |
Botticelli 'Adoration of the Magi' |
One of the most famous paintings in the world - Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus |
Francesco Melzi's 'Leda and the Swan' |
Filippo Lippi's 'Madonna and Child with two angels. |
Titian's 'Venus of Urbino' |
Raphael's 'Madonna of the Goldfinch' |
Three favourite sculptures
Michelangelo's 'David', in the Accademia |
Donatello's very different interpretation of David, in the Museo Bargello |
Michelangelo's 'Pietà', formerly in the Duomo, now in the Duomo Museum |