Gerriann Brower
@gbrower.bsky.social
She/hers. Writer, researcher, independent scholar: Italian art history. Wild about native plants. My blog has NO adverts: https://www.italianartfortravelers.com/
Helping my dual citizenship daughter to vote absentee. Of course the Italians know how to do it colorfully. 🇮🇹
May 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Helping my dual citizenship daughter to vote absentee. Of course the Italians know how to do it colorfully. 🇮🇹
Today's the day! Ascension of Christ. Artists struggled with how to depict Christ leaving earth. Some just included his feet at the top of the painting, with the remainder of the body out of the pictorial space. Drawing after Giotto, Art Institute of Chicago. #Renaissance
May 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today's the day! Ascension of Christ. Artists struggled with how to depict Christ leaving earth. Some just included his feet at the top of the painting, with the remainder of the body out of the pictorial space. Drawing after Giotto, Art Institute of Chicago. #Renaissance
Just love how "St. Peter as the First Pope" statue looks gnome-like with his Medieval miter. (Catalan, Met Museum, NY, 1348)
May 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just love how "St. Peter as the First Pope" statue looks gnome-like with his Medieval miter. (Catalan, Met Museum, NY, 1348)
In 1179 Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) led the Lateran Council to abolish electing a pope unanimously, requiring instead two-thirds majority. What a guy! Here he is in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Spinello Aretinio, Life of Alexander III, 1407.
May 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
In 1179 Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) led the Lateran Council to abolish electing a pope unanimously, requiring instead two-thirds majority. What a guy! Here he is in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Spinello Aretinio, Life of Alexander III, 1407.
Created about 100 years after da Vinci's Last Supper, Tintoretto's version features an asymmetrical composition with a very different attitude. It's classic Tintoretto. (S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1592-4) #renaissance
April 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Created about 100 years after da Vinci's Last Supper, Tintoretto's version features an asymmetrical composition with a very different attitude. It's classic Tintoretto. (S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1592-4) #renaissance
Biographer Paolo Giovio described Leonardo da Vinci as "sparkling, generous, with an extraordinarily beautiful face." Happy Birthday, Leo! (detail of Cats, Lions, and a Dragon, 1513-17, black chalk, pen and ink, wash, Royal Collection Trust HM Charles III) #Renaissance
April 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Biographer Paolo Giovio described Leonardo da Vinci as "sparkling, generous, with an extraordinarily beautiful face." Happy Birthday, Leo! (detail of Cats, Lions, and a Dragon, 1513-17, black chalk, pen and ink, wash, Royal Collection Trust HM Charles III) #Renaissance
It's wild man day! Courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510 (Royal Trust, RCIN 912502).
April 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's wild man day! Courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510 (Royal Trust, RCIN 912502).
Some good trouble going on today! Hands Off! Minneapolis
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Some good trouble going on today! Hands Off! Minneapolis
Victoria & Albert museum, London. Raphael’s cartoons for the Vatican tapestries. Or as my daughter said”Look at those rugs!”
March 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Victoria & Albert museum, London. Raphael’s cartoons for the Vatican tapestries. Or as my daughter said”Look at those rugs!”
Feast of the Annunciation March 25. One of my favorites is Fra Angelico's in San Marco, Florence. 1438-45. Fresco in the hallway of the monastery. Those angel wings!
March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Feast of the Annunciation March 25. One of my favorites is Fra Angelico's in San Marco, Florence. 1438-45. Fresco in the hallway of the monastery. Those angel wings!
My favorite doge. Giovanni Bellini, 1501, Portrait of Doge Loredan, London, National Gallery of Art
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My favorite doge. Giovanni Bellini, 1501, Portrait of Doge Loredan, London, National Gallery of Art
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good and Bad Government, Siena, detail, 1338-40. One of my favorite frescoes.
January 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Good and Bad Government, Siena, detail, 1338-40. One of my favorite frescoes.
In the house! Can’t wait to learn about these medieval oath breakers. Thank you @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 12:55 AM
In the house! Can’t wait to learn about these medieval oath breakers. Thank you @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social
Just finished first draft of a manuscript. Now onto the proposal - writing is such a humbling experience. Working title - Genius and Creativity: Four Artists that Changed the Renaissance.
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Just finished first draft of a manuscript. Now onto the proposal - writing is such a humbling experience. Working title - Genius and Creativity: Four Artists that Changed the Renaissance.