Stories By Alexandra Kiely
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dailyart
The Lewis Chessmen and Their Long-Lost Brother
June 10, 2019The Lewis Chessmen are among the world’s most recognizable works of medieval art, right up there with the Unicorn Tapestries and the Book of Kells. Not only are reproductions of the chessmen best-selling chess sets, but...
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dailyart
Painting of the Week: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: The Lesson
May 26, 2019Many people know John Singer Sargent for his beautiful oil paintings of turn-of-the-century high society. However, he also made many lovely watercolors, and they’re not nearly as well known. One example of a Sargent watercolor is...
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Architecture
Ten Gorgeous French Churches (That Aren’t Notre-Dame de Paris)
May 15, 2019For the past month, everybody has been talking about Notre-Dame de Paris, which suffered a horrible fire in April. Notre-Dame is by far France’s most famous church, but it isn’t the country’s only noteworthy one. France...
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19th Century
The Hudson River School: Celebrating Nature, American-Style
May 4, 2019The Hudson River School was a uniquely American art movement – the first to develop after the country gained its independence in 1776. It was a painting style that celebrated the American landscape. During the mid-19th...
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Architecture
Notre-Dame de Paris – Its Present and Future
April 22, 2019After Monday’s fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, I have been looking continuously for news about the building’s status. I sorted through all the reports, both the reliable and the sensational, to come up with this summary...
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Middle Ages
Notre-Dame Is Burning Down
April 15, 2019The world has received the very sad news that Paris’s famous Notre-Dame cathedral is burning down. Sometime on April 15, 2019, during renovations to the church, the roof and spire caught fire, which spread quickly. At...
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Middle Ages
Treasures of Medieval Irish Art to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
March 17, 2019Today is St. Patrick’s Day, so that means it’s a day to celebrate all things Irish. What better way to do that than by looking at some masterpieces of Irish art? Although there have been spectacular...
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Architecture
Five Fun Facts About Gargoyles – Quirky Creatures of the Middle Ages and Beyond
March 2, 2019Everybody loves gargoyles! I used to think I was alone in this, but I’ve come to learn that’s not at all true. In case any of you don’t know, a gargoyle is a carved human, animal,...
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dailyart
Painting of the Week: Giovanni Panini, Interior of a Picture Gallery with the Collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga
February 24, 2019This painting shows a truly spectacular assembly of artworks. Would you be surprised or excited to learn that it was once somebody’s real art collection? All these paintings belonged to Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (1690-1756), a...
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Middle Ages
The Complicated Meaning and Mysterious Origin of The Cloisters Cross
January 19, 2019The Cloisters Cross is a beautiful English Romanesque walrus ivory cross, likely dating to the middle of the 12th century. From the moment it reappeared in the mid-20th century, art historians have considered it to be...
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