Art Reviews 🎨 Archives - MARKGRAGO.COM ✍🏻 https://markgrago.com/category/art-reviews/ I'm a writer&poet&vlogger from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You are invited on my journey! βœπŸ»πŸ“½πŸ“Έ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:33:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/markgrago.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/imageedit_2_3033854795.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Art Reviews 🎨 Archives - MARKGRAGO.COM ✍🏻 https://markgrago.com/category/art-reviews/ 32 32 128556770 The Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun πŸ’› https://markgrago.com/the-funerary-mask-of-king-tutankhamun-%f0%9f%92%9b/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:33:18 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2475   One of the most mystical gifts of art from the ancient world is the funerary masks of the pharaohs. The masks’ main purpose of being placed over the head of mummies was to emphasize the ancient Egyptian belief in the fragile process of transition that the dead would have to endure successfully to relish …

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]]> 2475 Giuseppe Sanmartino “Christ lying under the Shroud” ☦ https://markgrago.com/giuseppe-sanmartino-christ-lying-under-the-shroud-%e2%98%a6/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:34:12 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2467   What do alchemy and marble have in common? The subject of this sculpture piece has a lot to say about them both. For many centuries, it was thought that alchemy imposed magical elements into the marble so that the sculptor working on a subject could forge the marble in any way he desired. According …

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]]> 2467 Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Transverberation of ‘Human’ Marble https://markgrago.com/ecstasy-of-saint-teresa-by-gian-lorenzo-bernini-the-transverberation-of-human-marble/ https://markgrago.com/ecstasy-of-saint-teresa-by-gian-lorenzo-bernini-the-transverberation-of-human-marble/#respond Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:15:01 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=247 “In his hand, I saw a long spear made of gold, and its tip, there appeared a small flame. It seemed as if he were occasionally thrusting it into my heart, piercing through my very core. When he pulled it out, it felt like he was drawing out my insides as well, leaving me ablaze …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/ecstasy-of-saint-teresa-by-gian-lorenzo-bernini-the-transverberation-of-human-marble/feed/ 0 247 Baltasar de Echave Ibia, “The Immaculate Conception”: A MAYAN TAPESTRY OF ETERNITY&WONDER🎨🎨🎨 https://markgrago.com/baltasar-de-echave-ibia-the-immaculate-conception-a-mayan-tapestry-of-eternitywonder%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8/ https://markgrago.com/baltasar-de-echave-ibia-the-immaculate-conception-a-mayan-tapestry-of-eternitywonder%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8/#respond Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:55:54 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=499   In the art world, the colour blue was highly sought after; however, in the Mayan world, it served quite a distinct purpose. As one can see in this portrait, the Virgin Mary has a Mayan quality, if one has studied the works and has categorized the process that the Mayan involved themselves in, in …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/baltasar-de-echave-ibia-the-immaculate-conception-a-mayan-tapestry-of-eternitywonder%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%8e%a8/feed/ 0 499 Edvard Munch: “Girl Under Apple Tree” An Imaginative Temptation of Innocence πŸŽ¨πŸ–ŒπŸŽπŸ https://markgrago.com/edvard-munch-girl-under-apple-tree-an-imaginative-temptation-of-innocence-%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8d%8e%f0%9f%8d%8f/ https://markgrago.com/edvard-munch-girl-under-apple-tree-an-imaginative-temptation-of-innocence-%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8d%8e%f0%9f%8d%8f/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:46:57 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=429   Edvard Munch was the architect of the German Expressionist movement, and this painting is a charitable example of that period. Upon first the gaze, the scene is colorful and jovial; the young girl, who is dressed in brightly clothed in white above her waist, and black below her hips, is strongly suggesting a disturbance …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/edvard-munch-girl-under-apple-tree-an-imaginative-temptation-of-innocence-%f0%9f%8e%a8%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8d%8e%f0%9f%8d%8f/feed/ 0 429 Leonardo da Vinci: The Adoration of the Magi: The Apocalypse of the Incarnation Through Artistic Geometry β˜¦πŸ–ŒπŸŽ¨ https://markgrago.com/leonardo-da-vinci-the-adoration-of-the-magi-the-apocalypse-of-the-incarnation-through-artistic-geometry-%e2%98%a6%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8e%a8/ https://markgrago.com/leonardo-da-vinci-the-adoration-of-the-magi-the-apocalypse-of-the-incarnation-through-artistic-geometry-%e2%98%a6%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8e%a8/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:59:16 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=388 Energy and persuasion are the geometric paradigms of this early work by da Vinci. Passion, anger, and the arrival of something clandestine seems to be in the painting but cannot be seen by the viewer; da Vinci, even in his earliest work, was a master of tension presentation and symbolic gesture. In the smoky glass …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/leonardo-da-vinci-the-adoration-of-the-magi-the-apocalypse-of-the-incarnation-through-artistic-geometry-%e2%98%a6%f0%9f%96%8c%f0%9f%8e%a8/feed/ 0 388 Pablo Picasso: “Portrait of Bibi la Puree” The Horrid/Artsy Vagabond of Imagination and Sinister Cryptogram 🎨 https://markgrago.com/pablo-picasso-portrait-of-bibi-la-puree-the-horrid-artsy-vagabond-of-imagination-and-sinister-cryptogram-%f0%9f%8e%a8/ https://markgrago.com/pablo-picasso-portrait-of-bibi-la-puree-the-horrid-artsy-vagabond-of-imagination-and-sinister-cryptogram-%f0%9f%8e%a8/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:06:17 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=286   Throughout his prolific career, Picasso met many fascinating eccentrics and vagabonds. One such person is horrifically captured in this dizzy and obscene portrait. This painting is replete with many crafted moods and acoustic emotion; it swims in front of the viewer! It captures Picasso’s personal signature of color, yet it is one of the …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/claude-monet-portrait-of-pere-paul-an-esbat-of-surface-effect-and-colour-%f0%9f%8e%a8/feed/ 0 242 Michelangelo, ‘David’: The Divine Masterpiece of Humanity (1504) https://markgrago.com/michelangelo-david-the-divine-masterpiece-of-humanity-1504/ https://markgrago.com/michelangelo-david-the-divine-masterpiece-of-humanity-1504/#respond Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:03:46 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=218   Michelangelo accepted the challenge of sculpting David out of marble as confidently as David accepted the challenge to battle Goliath. Tension and fortitude are the decisive ingredients swirling inside the soul of the Renaissance marble. The architecture of David’s character is in full animation; he cannot perform errors or vanquish his calling. The radiance …

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