Daily Art Quote

Everything worth doing is exhausting. (John Polanyi)

Pieter de Hooch, The Courtyard of a House in Delft  
1658,   Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm  
National Gallery, London

Down on the Farm

This weekend, I travelled to Bristol, Rhode Island to photograph a wedding at Coggeshall Farm. This late 18th century working farm is a delightful surprise, nestled between the bay and Colt Park. The bride requested photos of some of the farm animals, and this friendly rooster was happy to pose for a picture.

Rooster by Kelly Mann  2011  
Coggeshall Farm Museum

Daily Art Quote

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. 

(Steve Jobs)

George Romney
Portrait of Mrs Henrietta Morris and Her Son John   1777
   Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
   Private collection

Daily Art Quote

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. (George Henry Lewes)

Pelagio Palagi   Newton's Discovery of the Refraction of Light   1827  
Oil on canvas, 167 x 216 cm  
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Brescia


 

 Johannes Vermeer   The Astronomer   c. 1668  
Oil on canvas, 50 x 45 cm  
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 Johannes Vermeer   The Geographer   c. 1668  
Oil on canvas, 53 x 46,6 cm  
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Joseph Wright   A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary  
1766   Oil on canvas, 147,3 x 203,2 cm  
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby

 Giuseppe Angeli   Lesson in Astronomy   1757-59  
Oil on canvas, 100 x 45 cm  
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

 Willem van der Vliet   Philosopher and Pupils   1626  
Oil on panel, 85 x 113 cm  
National Trust for Scotland, Brodie Castle

Daily Art Quote



Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long 

To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

(William Shakespeare) 

 

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - The Reader Wreathed with Flowers (Virgil's Muse)   1845
   Oil on canvas, 47 x 34 cm
   Musée du Louvre, Paris



The Great Fire of London

    On September 2, 1666, a fire started in a bakery on Pudding Lane in London, rapidly spreading through the maze of cramped tenements of thatch and wood. The fire raged for 4 days, consuming over 13,000 houses.
    Before the advent of photography, artists were the pictorial journalists, recording events with paintings and drawings for others to see, learn and remember.




The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's,
oil on canvas, ca. 1670, by an unknown artist.



Painting circa 1670
London Fire

Daily Art Quote

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the centuries past.

   (Rene Descartes)

Giuseppe Maria Crespi   Bookshelves   c. 1725  
Oil on canvas  
Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna