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May 5, 2024 · May 5, 2024 (2 pm Pacific Time, live at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco) Cosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Lecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program. IN PERSON: Gunn Theater, 100 – 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned.
Apr 16, 2024 · Two prints in the exhibit 'Japanese Prints in Transition,' at the Legion of Honor (photo: Gary Sexton/FAMSF) Violence and gruesome fates are now implied, with passages of serenity and beauty, personified by Yoshitoshi's mature masterpiece, "Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing a Flute by Moonlight." The musician stalked by the bandit is saved.
May 1, 2024 · Photo: Legion of Honor. A family portrait by pioneering Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana has finally landed in an American institution. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) just ...
May 1, 2024 · Acquired in 2024, it is the earliest work by a woman to enter our European paintings collection. Here are five things to know about the groundbreaking artist behind this exceptional painting. Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552–1614), Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, ca. 1605. Oil on canvas, 39 x 53 1/4 in. (99 x 135.3 cm).
May 1, 2024 · News has broken that the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco has acquired Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children. Regular auction watchers will remember that this painting sold at Sotheby's New York back in 2012 for $602,500. It would be fair to suggest that the value of works by female artists on this ...
2 days ago · Țărancă din Muscel, Car cu boi, Atacul de la Smârdan, Fata cu basmaua roșie. Nicolae Grigorescu (n. 15 mai 1838, Pitaru, Potlogi, Dâmbovița, România – d. 21 iulie 1907, Câmpina, Prahova, România) este primul dintre fondatorii picturii române moderne, urmat de Ion Andreescu și Ștefan Luchian. Nicolae Grigorescu a devenit un simbol ...
5 days ago · Soldiers from the Hungarian Defence Forces form a guard of honour at a welcome ceremony for US president George W. Bush's visit to Hungary, 2006. A guard of honour (Commonwealth English), honor guard (American English) or ceremonial guard, is a group of people, typically drawn from the military, appointed to perform ceremonial duties – for example, to receive or guard a head of state or ...
