If anything comes from these recent blockbuster surveys of artists from different eras, it’s that creative greatness can only matched by the size of one’s ego. Long before Picasso was dueling it out with the ghosts of Delacroix and Gericault,  J.M.W Turner was bequeathing his works to museums, under the condition that they be in [...]

Despite pressing concerns over internet amnesia, Old Masters/New Perspectives has taken the plunge and  opened up a Twitter account. Here’s a place to address  some of the smaller stories that have recently come across the OMNP radar. For your daily dose of Old Masters related updates, check us out at www.twitter.com/omnp.

The contemporary program at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is living proof of the timelessness of art and of the electricity that runs between old and new art.  Established in 1992 by director Anne Hawley, the program serves not only as a counterpoint to Mrs. Gardner’s legacy but also as a continuation of the [...]

Following the debut of its star lot in December, Christie’s keeps the heavy hitters rolling in..
From ArtDaily:
On 8 December 2009 in London, Christie’s will offer one of the most important Baroque paintings to be presented at auction in a generation, and one of the most significant Old Masters to be offered in recent years. Saint [...]

Top flight works available on the Old Masters market can be counted on a set of fingers at times Nevertheless, “once in a lifetime” opportunities,  always seem to punctuate Christie’s and Sotheby’s bi-annual auctions in New York and London, creating a limelight for featured lots that is sometimes undeserving.  Christie’s London sale this December, however, [...]

The beginning of Fall always provides an apt reminder of  the Greek myth of Persephone  (as the Romans called her “Proserpine, or Proserpina”), whose fateful tale became an explanation for the change in seasons during ancient times.
Persephone was a big deal from the start- she was  borne from the union of two A-listers, her father [...]