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Shakespeare in Art

- April 20, 2016 in art inspired by shakespeare, franz marc, George Cruikshank, Henry Fuseli, images of shakespeare plays, paintings of shakespeare plays, Robert Smirke, shakespeare, the bard, william blake

To celebrate the 400th anniversary since the passing of "The Bard", we've put together some of our favourite images to which his plays have given rise: including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, George Cruikshank, Robert Smirke, and Franz Marc.

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Shakespeare in Art

- April 20, 2016 in art inspired by shakespeare, franz marc, George Cruikshank, Henry Fuseli, images of shakespeare plays, paintings of shakespeare plays, Robert Smirke, shakespeare, the bard, william blake

To celebrate the 400th anniversary since the passing of "The Bard", we've put together some of our favourite images to which his plays have given rise: including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, George Cruikshank, Robert Smirke, and Franz Marc.

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Shakespeare in Art

- April 20, 2016 in art inspired by shakespeare, franz marc, George Cruikshank, Henry Fuseli, images of shakespeare plays, paintings of shakespeare plays, Robert Smirke, shakespeare, the bard, william blake

To celebrate the 400th anniversary since the passing of "The Bard", we've put together some of our favourite images to which his plays have given rise: including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, George Cruikshank, Robert Smirke, and Franz Marc.

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Who Says Michelangelo Was Right? Conflicting Visions of the Past in Early Modern Prints

- February 10, 2016 in antiquity, Art & Illustrations, classical greece, hans brosamer, ideal of art, Laocoön, Laocoön and his sons, Laocoön group, michelangelo, raphael, rennaissance rome, sculpture, william blake

When the lost classical sculpture Laocoön and His Sons — lauded as representing the very highest ideal of art — was dug up in 1506 with limbs missing, the authorities in Rome set about restoring it to how they imagined it once to look. Monique Webber explores how it was in reproductive prints that this vision was contested, offering a challenge to the mainstream interpretation of Antiquity.

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William Blake and Paul Mellon: The Life of the Mind

- October 7, 2014 in Curator's Choice, Featured, Public Domain, william blake, yale center for british art

Matthew Hargraves, Chief Curator of Art Collections at the Yale Center for British Art, looks at Paul Mellon as a collector of William Blake and the impact of his lifelong fascination with psychology and psychiatry on his collecting.

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