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Reframing Francisco de Zurbarán, Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose, 1633, Norton Simon Foundation
Posted: 29 Aug 2025 by PML
Zurbarán's painting is at once a masterly depiction of mundane items - a cup of water, a flower, piles of citrus fruit, a slightly worn table - and a piercing, hallucinatory vision of objects which have somehow become laden with a significance beyond the everyday.
Reframing GEORG PENCZ, Portrait of a Young Woman, probably Christina Schweitzer, 1547, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Posted: 04 Jun 2025 by PML
The true identity of this young woman has only recently been established; she is almost certainly Christina Schweitzer of Nuremberg, and her assured and self-contained likeness is one half of a pair of marriage portraits, both painted in 1547
Reframing CÉZANNE, Portrait of Antony Valabrègue, 1869–1871, The Getty Museum
Posted: 09 Apr 2025 by PML
The poet and art critic Antony Valabrègue was, like Cézanne, born in Aix-en-Provence and grew up alongside the painter (although he was five years younger). He sat for him in his twenties, the most notable early portrait pre-dating this one by three or four years, and bursting into the presence of the Paris Salon admissions jury with what must have been an extreme case of the shock of the new.
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