Monthly Archives August 2012

Omen and oracle: Dutch images of beached whales

“A large whale, thrown up out of the blue sea (gods, let it not be a bad omen!), washed up on the beach near Katwijk.  What a terror of the deep Ocean is a whale, when it is driven by the wind and its own power on to the shore of the land and lies […]

Posted by Victoria  / on August 22, 2012  / 1 Comments  / in Art history

Provenance research case study: identifying an unidentified collector

The following case study describes the process I undertook to identify with certainty the full name—whose surname and only first initial were provided—of a collector listed in a provenance. Two of Giambattista Tiepolo’s Punchinello drawings (one currently in the Morgan Library, pictured here, ...

Posted by Victoria  / on August 13, 2012  / 1 Comments  / in Dissertation, Provenance research, Punchinello, Tiepolo