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Food for the Soul: Women at Prado – Women Artists Series 2
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Food for the Soul: Women at Prado – Women Artists Series 2

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Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait at the Easel, 1556-57. Oil on canvas. Muzeum-Zamek. ÅaÅ„cut, Poland. Photo credit: Courtesy of the © Prado National Museum, Madrid, Spain. “Her paintings were celebrated for their calm and gentle style, and for the particularity that she was a woman, and had risen above the usual course of those of her sex,…

Food for the Soul: Fashioning San Francisco
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Food for the Soul: Fashioning San Francisco

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The theme of the rarefied world of New York socialites in the 1970s is being explored in the second season of the ongoing TV series Feud. This season’s story, Capote vs. The Swans, portrays the rise and fall of a gossipy relationship between Truman Capote and some of Manhattan’s most prominent rich and famous, who…

Food for the Soul: London – Vermeer’s Music Lessons
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Food for the Soul: London – Vermeer’s Music Lessons

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It so happens that all four Vermeers that can be found in collections in London are about making music. The most elaborate of them is actually called The Music Lesson, acquired by King George III in 1762. This canvas spent about a hundred years misattributed to other Flemish artists (either Frans or Willem van Mieris),…