Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Musée Condé

http://www.musee-conde.fr/
http://www.chateaudechantilly.com/chateauchantilly/fr/chateau/presentation.htm

Actually I wanted to read or to see something about the Limbourg Brothers s work
"Tres Riches Heures du duc de Berry

Friday, July 13, 2012

Hermitage

Hermitage is certainly one of the museums, I want to see.

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

One of many famous paintings there;

Danae, Titian
From the Webpage of Hermitage:

This fine painting is one of five by the artist on this subject from Greek mythology. According to myth, Danae was the daughter of the King of Argos, Acrisius. The Oracle predicted that Acrisius would be killed by his daughter's son, so he shut Danae up in a bronze tower, but Zeus, charmed by her beauty, entered the tower in the form of a golden shower and seduced her. Titian endowed the mythological heroine with the features of contemporary Venetian ladies. Her graceful nude body, vividly depicted, contrasts with that of the aged serving woman. Combining warm brown, golden, and pink colours with cool gray and blue tones, Titian manages to create an atmosphere of intimate warmth, sexuality, and joie de vivre.