Tag: the metropolitan museum of art

Venetian French Rococco Chair

Venetian French Rococco Chair

It’s easy to look back at the past and think that all other eras knew their own minds and with purist zeal were able to create entirely new work, for and of the time, without reference to their predecessors. Not so at all, which is one reason why I love scouting around the decorative arts in museums so much. Perhaps they validate my penchant for re-appropriation. Influence, or inspiration?; magical words that treat us to new ideas and open an old way to a new frame of vision.

 

a hand full of Italian lace

a hand full of Italian lace

…”Seventeenth-century lace has a voluminous character—rather than the light and airy form of later periods—reflecting an era when luxury was equated with grandeur…

 

details of damask

details of damask

…fabrics from the Palazo Segredo, Venice, c.1718

 

Bedroom in the Palazo Segredo, Venice, c.1718

Bedroom in the Palazo Segredo, Venice, c.1718

…and their order will make no difference at all.

 

Manufacture des Gobelins

Manufacture des Gobelins

Here are some detailed views of the tapestry Cupid and Psyche, woven at Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris and hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, …

 

Coptic fragments

Coptic fragments

The weavers who worked and stitched these cloths were Coptic, living in Egypt… and using Linen…and Wool…

 

Bacon Centenary; visit to despair and the ritual of sacrifice

Bacon Centenary; visit to despair and the ritual of sacrifice

Carcasses; wild, and beastly, rabid monkeys; vampirical clergy with devouring mouths and similar ideas proliferate Bacon’s work.