Hand-Colored Print Depicts the Land of Cockaigne, Mythical World of Self-Indulgence
“Here you only worry about being happy!”
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Laying Louis XIV to Rest
Why are there so few images of Louis XIV’s death?
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Six Meditations on Versailles
A 1712 print depicts the palace of Versailles as capital of politics and pleasure.
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Louis XIV as Royal Spectator
Louis XIV appears front-row center in two engravings celebrating his grand parties.
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A 17th-Century Face-Off
Masterpieces aren’t the only important objects in art history.
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Louis XIV, the Original King of Viral Media
The original tech-savvy celebrity.
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Anatomy in Wax, Wood, and Ink
“These prints preserve a fascinating moment in the history of art and science, through the meeting point of anatomy.”
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“The Everlasting Cycle of Becoming and Fading”: Thomas W. Gaehtgens on Philipp Otto Runge’s “Times of Day”
“Runge’s prints represent far more than merely the times of day. The cycle of the day represents in fact the cycle of life.”
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Philipp Otto Runge’s “Times of Day,” A Monument of German Romantic Art
This remarkable four-print series depicts the coming and departing of light, which points to the cycles of life from conception to death.
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The First Modern Catalogue of an Art Collection: Q&A with Curator Louis Marchesano
In the 1700s, the seeds of a new style of presenting works of art—both on the wall and on the page—were planted by a... Read More
A Gallery Fit for a Prince and Now the Public? The Düsseldorf Gallery and the Modern Museum
Most museum galleries have certain things in common. For one, the works are spaced a restful distance apart from one another on the wall.... Read More
Recovering Lost History in Le Brun’s Prints
In 2003 the Getty Research Institute acquired hundreds of 17th-century French prints that had been in the collection of a European noble family. This... Read More
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