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Lisa Small

@small.lisa

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Senior Curator, European Art. Brooklyn Museum. All opinions my own.

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Fabulous Monets and amazing Sargents. Here: the Sargents. ❤️ Congratulations @small.lisa and @melissa_buron on Monet and Venice. Beautiful and smart exhibition. 🙌🙌🙌 taken in Brooklyn Museum by @small.lisa

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On this special Arts edition of #AroundTheBoroughs… the Composer-In-Residence for the #BrooklynMuseum unveils his final symphony for the organization as part of the museum’s Fall Season, while select members of the public can now be the ones doing the scaring at #BloodManor. #nyc #monet&venice #monetandvenice by @small.lisa

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Brooklyn Museum curator Lisa Small takes us back to nineteenth-century Paris to survey the emergence of the successive avant-garde movements that shocked and dismayed the art world. These revolutions — from the grounded Realism of Gustave Courbet to the vivid Fauvism of Henri Matisse — were centered in France, but artists from other countries who came there to study and work also contributed to these dynamic artistic changes. Focusing primarily on works from the @brooklynmuseum’s renowned collection of modern European art, we will witness the broad shift from naturalism to abstraction, trace the waning influence of the Academy and Salon and the rise of a new, independent art market, and we will watch as artists start emphasizing not just what they see but how they see it (and what they feel about it).

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Image: detail from Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926). Rising Tide at Pourville (Marée montante à Pourville), 1882. Oil on canvas, 26 × 32 in. (66 × 81.3cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Horace O. Havemeyer, 41.1260 by @small.lisa

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#HappyHalloween! 💀🪱

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Manuel Chili (called Caspicara), Skeleton from “The Four Fates of Man,” ca. 1775. #Polychromed wood.

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#ManuelChili #MementoMori #Death #wormfood #SpanishAmericas #Quito @hispanic_society by @small.lisa

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Natalia Goncharova, “Femme Russe,” ca. 1909 🧡

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#NataliaGoncharova #portrait #fashionable #russianavantgarde @museedartmodernedeparis by @small.lisa

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Today we said goodbye to our sweet, handsome Shane. We are devastated. Although we will never know how he spent his first two or three years, we know that in the seven years he was with us his life was filled with love, kisses, long walks, so many toys, four soft beds (plus our bed and the couch), epic games of tug, weekly piles of warm laundry to lay on, zoomies, and a lot of delicious food. We will scatter his ashes in Central Park, in all his favorite spots. Shanie, beautiful boy, we love you and we will miss you forever. 💔 by @small.lisa

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Alvise Vivarini, “Saint Anthony of Padua,” ca. 1480-81. 🌱

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#AlviseVivarini #RenaissanceArt #15thcenturyart #SaintAnthony taken in Museo Correr by @small.lisa

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Antonio Donghi, “Two Women on a Balcony,” 1934. ☂️

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#AntonioDonghi #stillness #MagicRealism #NewObjectivity #1930s @museocapesaro taken in Ca' Pesaro by @small.lisa

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Piero della Francesca (or Luca Signorelli?), “Virgin and Child,” ca. 1470-75. ✨

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#PierodellaFrancesca #LucaSignorelli #RenaissanceArt #15thcenturyart #VirginandChild #textiles @palazzo_cini taken in Palazzo Cini Dorsoduro by @small.lisa

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In Claire (1887), a #portrait of the artist’s family’s chef, Paul-Albert Besnard combined #etching with velvety #drypoint to capture the luminosity of his striking sitter’s skin and eyes. Fascinating to see an earlier state before he developed the rich black tones. 🖤

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#PaulAlbertBesnard #19thcenturyart #printmaking #BrooklynMuseum taken in Brooklyn Museum by @small.lisa

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#Engravings of some of the paintings and sculptures found in #Herculaneum from Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non’s “Voyages Pittoresque ou, Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile” (1781-86). 🖤

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#SaintNon #VoyagesPittoresque #EnlightenmentProject #18thcenturytravel #18thcenturybook #Italy #BrooklynMuseum taken in Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives by @small.lisa

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When this print by Jean-Léon Gérôme was published in the Gazette de Beaux Arts in 1860, several years after the artist’s first trip to Egypt, the words “Negresse du Hedjaz” were inscribed in the plate. The title conveys a racialized, ethnographic “type,” the kind of exoticizing image that was the artist’s stock in trade. But the care with which he’s rendered her expressive features and her garments proclaim an individual presence, and in fact the previously unknown drawing on which this print was based reveals her identity. Gérôme often noted the names of his sitters and this portrayal is inscribed “Aiouch.” The print is now on view at the @brooklynmuseum, the drawing was recently with @elliotfineart. ✍🏼

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#JeanLeonGerome #Orientalism #19thcenturyart #BrooklynMuseum taken in Brooklyn Museum by @small.lisa

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