princeton art museum notes

princeton-art-museum-notes.md

• Ethiopia from roughly "burnt face land" in Greek

  • respected as devout early Christians (but not Catholic)

• slaves originally from Caucasus

• diplomats from Morocco, etc.

• used darkness of material color (bronze, wood?)

• painted over Medici child

• New York Chamber of Commerce portraits of old white men (Washington, Edison, Carnegie) on walls in high density (like original Barnes)

• Claude Monet - london fog - trying to capture atmosphere: http://www.princetonartmuseum.org/collections/objects/32454

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_Parliament_series_(Monet)
  • as impressionist image filter: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/courses/320/Lectures.2013s/PAINTER.PDF

• Remington - American West - trying to capture night

• garden designed to look like coat of arms? http://goo.gl/maps/M25PH