Each one of us is marvelously unique, but birth and death come to us all. Realist artist Steve Wineinger of Spokane, Washington, depicts this arc of life in his still-life painting “The Way of All Things.” In the painting, Wineinger starts the story on the right-hand side, just as the ancient Greek or Hebrew texts…
The Heart of the French Renaissance: Château de Fontainebleau
The art and architecture of the Château de Fontainebleau in France influenced the evolution of art not only in France but also across Europe. From the 12th to the 19th century, the kings and queens of France lived at the Château de Fontainebleau. First, King Louis VII built a hunting lodge and chapel on the…
A Painting to Remember: ‘Las Meninas’
Three memories I have of the first time I visited Madrid: the relentless elegance of the women in the fashionable areas, the sumptuous gazpacho at the Ritz Madrid, and seeing “Las Meninas” in the Prado. Ask an artist or a philosopher today to name the greatest painting in the world and the chances are they…
Colombia’s Astonishing Las Lajas Shrine
It is 1754. A violent storm erupts over Ipiales in south Colombia, just seven miles shy of Ecuador. Amerindian Maria Meneses de Quiñones and her deaf-mute daughter Rosa frantically search for shelter, having been caught out in a canyon. Finding a suitable space, the two huddle together between two “laja,” two slabs of flat rock…
Appreciating Beauty Before It Slips Away: ‘Lost Illusions’
We sometimes let opportunities slip through our grasp, forgetting that our lives are over in the blink of an eye. I was recently talking to a friend about hindsight. Have you ever thought, “If I could go back in time, I’d do that differently,” or “If I knew then what I know now”? Such thought…
Yard Sale Shopper Pays $35 for China Bowl That Turns Out to Be Artifact Worth up to $500,000
March 6, 2021
admin
artifactArts & Culturechinese artFine Arts & CraftsmanshipInspiredLife & TraditionSotheby'sTraditional Cultureyard sale
0 Comment
Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare 15th century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000 that is about to go up for auction at Sotheby’s. The white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other…
‘Virginia Arcadia’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
What’s 215 feet high, 90 feet long, and has been admired in great art and literature for centuries—from Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” to Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” to Frederic Edwin Church’s landscape paintings? Here’s another hint: Jefferson bought it, along with 157 acres of land, from King George III of England for…
Here’s Hoping for Beauty in America: Classicism Versus Modernism in Architecture
One of Donald Trump’s final acts as the nation’s 45th president was to sign an executive order called “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.” He signed the order on Dec. 18, 2020, but it had been kicking around for many months since it was leaked from the White House last winter as a draft proposal with…
Stupendously Spanish: Seville’s Plaza de España
From around 1910 to 1929, the Spanish city of Seville made preparations to host the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. The aim of the exposition was to demonstrate Spain’s cultural and socioeconomic wealth to the world. All countries that exhibited at the exposition had historical links to Spain, such as the United States, Portugal, and Latin…
Divinely Inspired Endurance: ‘The Temptation of St. Anthony’
Many of us reach a point in our lives where we struggle with becoming the moral person we know we can be. We intend to improve our moral character, but we’re bombarded by the heaviest of burdens whenever we try. Many of us, unable to endure the suffering of this struggle, settle or give up….
US News
RSS Error: A feed could not be found at `https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-us/feed`; the status code is `200` and content-type is `text/html; charset=utf-8`