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• February 16, 2011
  “The Master of the Blue Jeans” at Didier Aaron: a conversation with Alan Salz

  The Master of the Blue Jeans is an old master for fashion week, and for fans of the late Baroque, a curious and incredibly talented portraitist of peasants.

• January 11, 2011
  Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494)

  1/11/11 is made all the more epic in reverence to Domenico Ghirlandaio, Renaissance pioneer and famed tutor of Michelangelo, who passed on this day in 1494.

• January 2, 2011
  Old Masters + New Perspectives is now OMNP Arts, with a salon of select works to debut on January 6

  We’re relaunching Old Masters + New Perspectives, as OMNP Arts, to now provide our readers with select releases of Old Masters for sale.

• December 25, 2010
  Holiday cheer with Brueghel the Elder

  Happy Holidays from OMNP, with a quirky Nativity by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

• December 17, 2010
  Indiana Jones and the Malvagna Triptych and Joe Coleman’s “Auto-Portrait”

  OMNP reflects on the numinous power of the Northern Renaissance in a show of Jan Gossart at the Met, and its decscendence in the work of painter Joe Coleman.

• December 12, 2010
  A look at Christie’s and Sotheby’s December Old Master sales in London

  Was Poussin’s “Ordination” an epic failure at Christie’s, or a sign that art collectors don’t know where to spend their money? OMNP mulls over the unsold masterpiece that headed last weeks auctions in London.

• December 10, 2010
  Goya and Ribera unfiltered at the Frick

  The Frick Collection has been focusing on the art of Spain of late, with two complimentary exhibitions, “The King at War: Velázquez’s Portrait of Philip IV” and “The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya.” These shows bring together some of the most important names from Spain’s grand lineage of painters. In a two part article, OMNP contributor Victoria Romeo takes a look at two tightly focused shows that imbue life into some old classics.

• December 8, 2010
  Velázquez’s “Portrait of Philip IV” at the Frick: A new look at an old friend

  The Frick Collection has been focusing on the art of Spain of late, with two complimentary exhibitions, “The King at War: Velázquez’s Portrait of Philip IV” and “The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya.” These shows bring together some of the most important names from Spain’s grand lineage of painters. In a two part article, OMNP contributor Victoria Romeo takes a look at two tightly focused shows that imbue life into some old classics.

• December 6, 2010
  A Sunday with Peter Greenaway and William Blake

  William Blake, Peter Greenaway, and the greatness of the Renaissance came together in a train of thought over Greenaway’s “Last Supper” installation at the Armory.

• December 5, 2010
  William Blake (1757-1827)

  William Blake BORN: 28 November 1757  / London, England DIED: 12 August 1827/ London, England KEY WORKS:   William Blake, “Plate from The Song of Los,” [1] “Ancient of Days (from the “Book of Daniel,”)” [3] “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun” (illustration from “Revelations”) [8] ”Urizen,” [19] “Glad Day, or the Song [...]