Tag: Art
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Chinese wallpaper
Chinese wallpaper On the Oud Amelisweerd estate near Utrecht, there is a room where not only the walls but even the doors are covered with continuous Chinese wallpaper. And not just any wallpaper, but hand-painted, 18th-century wallpaper full of extraordinary Chinese scenes. Truly marvellous. Photos of the week: Hand painted Chinese wallpaper, 18th century, Oud…
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Philibert de Savoie
Philibert de Savoie Like Marguerite d’Autriche, her husband Philibert de Savoie, who died at the age of 24 in 1504, is also buried in the cathedral of the Royal Abbey in Brou. His tomb, like his wife’s, has also two effigies, one formal and one informal, one above the other. The effigies are surrounded by…
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Marguerite d’Autriche
Marguerite d’Autriche Marguerite d’Autriche, who was the talented governor of the Low Countries for many years, died in 1530 and is buried in the cathedral of the Royal Abbey of Brou. Her tomb has two effigies, one above the other, made by Conrat Meit. The upper one depicts her in marble in full royal regalia,…
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Car wash
Car wash I can’t help it: always looking at the world in amazement, even from inside a car in a car wash. Photo of the week: Car wash, Bourg-en-Bresse, France 2025
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The encounter
The encounter Marie d’Orléans died shortly after the birth of her son in 1839. She was 26 years old. During her short life as Princess of Orleans and, after her marriage, as Duchess of Württemberg, she devoted herself to sculpture with considerable success. In the museum of the Monastère royal de Brou, I was struck…
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Dynamic white
Dynamic white Ryman examined meticulously what he could do with, mainly, white paint on differently coloured surfaces. He himself would not easily give a title like ‘Dynamic white’ to a painting of his. He was very much aware of the materials he used, the kind of paint, the surface, the visible mounting to the wall,…
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Love and devotion
Love and devotion Mother and child: the universal feeling of love.Praying nun: the religious feeling of devotion.The feelings may be close to each other but they are not the same. Photos of the week: statues of Mary in the chapel of Besanceuil, and of a devotional nun in Eglise Saint-Thomas, Cuiseaux, France 2025
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Bleu de Chartres
Bleu de Chartres When you enter Chartres Cathedral, the blue light in the stained-glass windows immediately catches your eye: the famous blue of Chartres. There are many different colours in the stained glass, red, yellow, green, white … but it is the intensity of the blue that dominates the image. The photo shows a detail…
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The A of Achilles
The A of Achilles In 1962, Cy Twombly created two paintings “about” Achilles: “Achilles Mourning the Death of Patroclus” and “The Vengeance of Achilles”, depicted here. In both paintings, as is often the case with Twombly, the title of the work is a fairly inconspicuous part of the composition. What is all the more striking…
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Art and Nature
Art and Nature Thousands of dried laurel leaves caught in an open wire construction.A play of infinite shades of brown.The richness of Arte Povera. Photos of the week: Breathing the Shadow (Respirare l’ombra), Laurel Leaves, 2005, detail and in full in the back of Earth Shadow (Ombra di terra), Bronze and Terracotta, 2003, by Giuseppe…
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