Spotted: From Google Arts and Culture Chrome Extension, 29 November 2017

Study of a bloodhound by William Holman Hunt

More information about William Holman Hunt in Wikipedia

The Google Arts and Culture feature on this work included a glimpse of the "brotherhood" among the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The study, housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was for Hunt's interpretation of "The Eve of Saint Agnes," a poem by John Keats, showing the eloping lovers Madeline and Porphyro. The finished work is housed at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Spotted from "Art History Feed" on Twitter, 23 November 2017

"Seated Girl" (Franzi Fehrmann) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

More information about Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Wikipedia.

The rise of Die Brucke, the group Kirchner co-founded and the branding of expressionist art as "degenerate" comprise a very tragic, heartbreaking episode in the history of modern art. This one from the Minneapolis Institute of Art is one of the few surviving of Kirchner's body of work.

Spotted: From "History of Painting" on Twitter, 17 November 2017

"Salvator Mundi" by Leonardo Da Vinci

Read about this Leonardo masterpiece in Wikipedia

Latin for "Savior of the World," one of my all-time favorites that was once considered lost, and was rediscovered in 2005. Just got auctioned off with the record-breaking price of 450.3 million US dollars.

Dateline: 08 November 2017, Manila, PHL

Mourning and contemplation

It's been a year since we wrongly honored the late dictator and gravest plunderer as a hero, facilitated by a majority of injustices at the Supreme Court. In moments like this, I wished we had a non-denominational chapel such as the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas in the United States for continual mourning and contemplation.

The Rothko Chapel was a collaboration between the great 20th century artist Mark Rothko and a series of architects. But he did not see his work to completion.

More information about Rothko in Wikipedia. The Rothko Chapel has its own website as well.

Spotted: From Google Arts and Culture, 05 November 2017

"The Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

More information about Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Wikipedia

From the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, for a time, the artwork had been erroneously attributed, including to the artist's son (Bruegel the Younger). Read about this work on Google Arts and Culture.

Spotted: From "Art History Feed" on Twitter, 01 November 2017

"Maddalena in estasi" (Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy) by Caravaggio

More information about Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in Wikipedia

Was on my way to Kawit, Cavite, hometown to the maternal side of the family, when I spotted this. Kawit is the town of the Magdalo revolutionaries, so named for the town's patroness, Saint Mary Magdalene.

The art world was itself ecstatic in October 2014 when the original Caravaggio work was discovered in a private collection. And in March 2016, the masterpiece was first publicly exhibited in Tokyo.