Jonathan Lopez's Writing (10 stories)
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Beware of Catching the King's Eye
Opulent living at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte aroused the suspicions of Louis XIV, who imprisoned the owner for embezzlement.
chapter 1: Masterpiece: Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (added 2011/10/21 )
chapter 1: Masterpiece: Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (added 2011/10/21 )
Eureka!
Beneath the surface of a medieval manuscript, conservators at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, have discovered lost texts and diagrams by Archimedes, showing how far ahead of his time the ancient sc...more
chapter 1: Eureka! (added 2011/10/11 )
chapter 1: Eureka! (added 2011/10/11 )
One Master Mines Another
"Rembrandt & Degas," currently at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam before traveling to Massachusetts and New York, reveals how the early efforts by Degas to forge a personal style were deeply influ...more
chapter 1: Rembrandt & Degas at the Rijksmuseum (added 2011/08/22 )
chapter 1: Rembrandt & Degas at the Rijksmuseum (added 2011/08/22 )
The Look of Salvation
"Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a fascinating narrative of artistic innovation and spiritual growth as we witness the master's evolving depiction...more
chapter 1: "Rembrant and the Face of Jesus" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (added 2011/08/10 )
chapter 1: "Rembrant and the Face of Jesus" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (added 2011/08/10 )
A Physical Place of Enchanting Illusion
The Panorama Mesdag in The Hague is a masterpiece of 19th-century painting and a physical place of enchanting illusion.
chapter 1: The Panorama Mesdag, The Hague (added 2011/04/08 )
chapter 1: The Panorama Mesdag, The Hague (added 2011/04/08 )
"Uncompromising Truth" -- article in the magazine Antiques
The heady world of Victorian painters and photographers
chapter 1: Uncompromising Truth (added 2011/01/19 )
chapter 1: Uncompromising Truth (added 2011/01/19 )
Portrait of an artist - Boston Globe, Nov. 7, 2010
Book review of a new biography on the artist Grant Wood.
chapter 1: Portrait of an artist - Boston Globe, Nov. 7, 2010 (added 2010/11/07 )
chapter 1: Portrait of an artist - Boston Globe, Nov. 7, 2010 (added 2010/11/07 )
"Gross False Pretences," Apollo: The International Magazine of Art (November 2007)
"Several of the greatest collectors of Old Master paintings in turn-of-the-century America were sold fakes or wildly misattributed works by Leo Nardus. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Jona...more
chapter 1: "Gross False Pretences" (added 2009/08/22 )
chapter 1: "Gross False Pretences" (added 2009/08/22 )
The Man Who Made Vermeers
Interview: http://www.essentialvermeer.com/intervie...
chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: A LIAR’S BIOGRAPHY (added 2009/03/20 )
chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: A LIAR’S BIOGRAPHY (added 2009/03/20 )
