HT: On Being
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
ome really beautiful photography from Dan Eckert. It’s time lapse photography, but the camera moves, which makes the photography much more three-dimensional.
HT: Quaerentia
Until recently, the image at the head of my web page was a detail from Vermeer's View of Delft.
The View of Delft rightly deserves admiration, and none apparently recognised that more than Proust, who not only died with Vermeer's name on his lips, but who named the View as the painting beloved by Bergotte, a character from in À la recherche du temps perdu who best seems to hold Proust's own views on art.
When I was last in Paris, I noticed a rather remarkable painting in the extensive French collection upstairs at the Louvre: Vénus, l’Hymen et l’Amour. The artist is Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823) who seems to have had a refined sense of the allegoric. (He also painted the rather more famous Love and Friendship.)
