Stories By Anthony de Feo
Ancient Egypt
The Lifelike Death Fayum Portraits of Roman Egypt
November 21, 2020Though they are often referred to as “Fayum portraits” – taking their title from the location of a region in Egypt where Pharaoh Amenemhat III’s mortuary temple once stood – they came from various places across...
20th century
Still lifes Too Vivid To Be Real- Imagined Realism in Luigi Lucioni’s Art
April 20, 2018For some people, realism is defined by painting what they see. For Luigi Lucioni, it meant painting what he thought was there. Luigi Lucioni’s art was an imagined realism, a reflection of his own perception of...
20th century
Frederick Stuart Church: Painter of Harmony
February 12, 2018A lifetime of training could not have prepared Frederick Stuart Church for 1863. But his works of fantasy that came after clung to and perhaps even dictated national Romantic bent: idyllic portraits of women and animals...
20th century
The Last Landscape of William Langson Lathrop
November 24, 2017The landscape of Long Island, New York drew a host of American Impressionists and their associates from the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. The Shinnecock School, the first en plein air art...
Architecture
Art Creating Art: Old Westbury Gardens
June 19, 2017cWhen Jay Phipps and Margarita Grace married on November 4th, 1903, they wed at Battle Abbey in East Sussex, England. There the 1066 Battle of Hastings ended with the Saxons’ defeat at the hands of William...
20th century
The Prismatic Glass Tiles of Frank Lloyd Wright
May 3, 2017Early in his career, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright – the most famous pioneer of the Prairie School style at the turn of the twentieth century – experimented with a host of organic designs. He was...
Artists' Stories
Ogunquit Artist Colony: The Painter’s Paradise
April 18, 2017The Abenaki people native to southern Maine knew of their homeland’s allure long before their European successors. The word “ogunquit” – which became the name of a small shipbuilding community on the state’s southern border –...
Just Weird
Scrimshaw: True American Art
April 13, 2017Despite the enormity of whales, those pursuing them could go weeks, even months at a time without seeing a single one. With all that time between hunts, sailors needed something to occupy their hands. From boredom...
Artists' Stories
The (Not So) Simple Style of Emil Carlsen
April 8, 2017Emil Carlsen was, for roughly the first forty years of his life, poor and relatively unknown. After all, he rejected the growing appeal of florid color and captured, fleeting light that predominated modern Impressionist taste. Instead,...
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Vermeer’s Desperate Housewives
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Erna Rosenstein. Surrealist in the Country Where Surrealism Didn’t Exist
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What I Found in the Museum Of Bad Art
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The Sacred Cats of Ancient Egypt
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Henry Ossawa Tanner – African-American Artistic Pioneer
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Explore the Unknown World of Klimt’s Landscapes
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The Prime Minister’s Art: Landscapes of Winston Churchill
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Brief Story of Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny
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Arenig School. Wild Bohemians and Welsh Mountains
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