The cheeky art critic columnBy Owen Hebbert, Contributor There has long been a body of thought that views the letter boards of Van Hoogstraten as rather vain self-portraits. Samuel van…
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Jan Steen didn’t seem to understand that people will not be able to unsee some of the ways in which he portrays himself. I’ll bet that bit him in the…
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The cheeky art critic columnBy Owen Hebbert, Contributor Death’s attitude is much more that of someone who, when invited to discuss his trade, simply shrugs and says, “You know, people…
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The cheeky art critic columnBy Owen Hebbert, Contributor In ‘Fantasy Figures’ the women are almost all strikingly pretty and the men are almost all shockingly plain, and I don’t know…
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Whoever did this was clearly quite practiced at the art of taking thin bits of gold and gobs of egg yolk and turning them into pictures of disgruntled lions. Saint…
