Murillo’s Immaculate Conception or Assumption of the Virgin?
August 14th 2021
If you lived in 17th Century Seville, you might expect this to be an image of the Immaculate Conception rather than the Assumption. And perhaps it is. Murillo painted the Immaculate Conception again and again. The upward gaze of the
Bellini’s St Dominic in Denver
August 7th 2021
“St Dominic”,Giovanni Bellini, c.1501, Denver, private collection This painting by Giovanni Bellini of St Dominic is less well known than others. Saint Dominic is reading from the book he holds open in his hands. He is easily identified by
