Cullenary Art

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Head of the Danube School, Altdorfer is one of the first artists in the history of European painting to represent the pure landscape. We have seen in the earlier work of Joachim Patinir as the landscape was the bottom-with almost absolute prominence, but the bottom end of the day, a work of religious themes. In this work of Altdorfer, or in its oldest “Landscape with Bridge” at the National Gallery of London, the landscape is the sole basis and the protagonist of the painting. Read the rest of this entry »

The art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, one of the most original painters of any era, has tried to frame in the mannerist and baroque, with as little success as a painter and cataloging of the Greek school, Spanish or Italian. In fact, a unique artist, who runs his own pictorial language, a talent that would only be understood with the advent of twentieth century avant-garde. Read the rest of this entry »