What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
In my leisure time I enjoy researching the dynamic qualities that take place in the art world. The promoting and selling of art, reading articles or learning of new artist, and secretly relish art heist.
While visiting the Musée du Louvre last month there were several exhibitions that conveyed additional information that wasn’t taught in my college art classes. The first exhibition was the Carracci Drawings: The Making of the Farnese Gallery. The Palazzo Farnese, now home to the French Embassy in Italy holds one of the most celebrated examples of painted decoration in Western art in the Carracci Gallery.
The work of Annibale Carracci [1560-1609], who worked with his brother Agostino [1557-1602] and his artistic partner and cousin Ludovico Carracci [1555-1619]. There was also a small group of pupils who worked with the Carracci’s and were commissioned by cardinal Odoardo Farnese and his older brother, Ranuccio after inheriting their prestigious family titles, possessions and art collection.
The Farnese Gallery was an essential model for artists, and great care was taken to preserve the preparatory drawings which were displayed retracing the history of such decorative work allowing us [the patrons] to analyze what made the Gallery in Rome such a masterpiece.Â
Live creatively,
Kathleen
Stylish Heath 