BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//https://mnar.ro///NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.15// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260404T093623EEST-2304IwTomb@https://mnar.ro/ DTSTAMP:20260404T063623Z DESCRIPTION:Staying at home? Discover the museum’s collection from a new pe rspective!\nAs people bond even closer with their pets we thought we would introduce you to other people’s companions.Once the museum will reopen do n’t miss the opportunity to look them up close …Until then\, just enjoy br owsing while staying at home.\n \;\n\n\n \;\n \;\nG.D.Mirea - The Goodwin Children\, 1885Romanian Modern Art Gallery\, MNAR\nErnest Good win\, a British banker\, was married to Maria Suțu\, a Romanian Princess\; their three children\, portrayed in typical 1880s manner\, show how well- connected local high-society was to what was fashionable among members of European social elites of the time\, from the manner of dressing to pets. While the overall setting is suggestive of the family’s social status\, th e Labrador dog and the basket lend the picture a less formal\, more domest ic character.\nA trained academic painter\, George Demetrescu Mirea (1852 – 1934) was one of the top Belle-Epoque portraitists of the Bucharest elit e.\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n***\n\n \;\nNiccolo Livaditti – Portrait of a LadyRomanian Modern Art Gallery\, MNAR\nBorn in Trieste\, Italy\, Niccolo Livaditti (1804-1858) settled in Iași sometime around 1830 . Livaditti’s practice as a portrait painter flourished in the capital cit y of the Romanian Principality of Moldavia\, the artist contributing signi ficantly to the modernisation of local painting.\nThis Biedermeier portrai t featuring a lady doing some needlework displays many of the staple chara cteristics of contemporary painting such as attention to detail and the ma terial qualities of surrounding objects\; the artist includes fashionable composition and perspective elements such as the background landscape\, an d manages to capture something of the sitter’s psychology.\nThe lap dog de picted behind the sitter\, to the left\, is sympathetically rendered and i s certainly more than a means to balance the overall compositional design\ , lending the picture an intimacy in line with contemporary middle-class e xpectations.\nA range of red\, ochre\, purple and blue hues set in stark c ontrast to the deep black of the woman’s velvet dress give the painting a certain freshness.\n \;\n***\n\n\n \;\n \;\nPieter Cornelisz v an Slingelandt (1640 –1691) – Woman in an interior (Woman Knitting)Europea n Art Gallery\, MNAR\nThis typical Netherlandish interior combines a true- to-life rendition of everyday life with a possible moralising message. The young woman knitting is gazing at the spectator\; the dog at her feet may suggest fidelity\, whereas the cage hanging from the ceiling may hint at the closed circle of domestic life.\nThe open door in the background contr adicts the idea of the interior as a closed space of domestic virtue altho ugh the door looks onto a balustrade\; the outside space is that of an enc losed garden rather than the street\, which may be indicative of some sort of seclusion. The two paintings within the painting represent the Adorati on of the Shepherds and probably St. George. It is therefore possible to r ead this genre scene as an allegory of desirable\, adequate female behavio r.\n \;\n \;\n***\n \;\n\n \;\n \;\nQuiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam (after 1622 – ca.1669) - Interior\, 1660European Art Gall ery\, MNAR\nThe genre scene is based on three characters\, a couple of int riguing details and an interesting visual plot: an elderly woman calls on a young woman\, and the maid spies on them. The setting is not devoid of a mbiguities\, and is complemented by rather obvious symbolic figurative det ails such as the dog in the mistress’s lap.\nThe dog is customarily read a s an emblem of marital fidelity\; on the other hand\, the map on the wall\ , frequently featured in Dutch Golden Age genre scenes\, may be interprete d as a shorthand sign for temporary separation and erotic adventures.\n&nb sp\;\n \;\n \;\n***\n\n \;\n \;\n \;\nGeldorp Gortzius (1553 – ca. 1619) – Girl with a CatEuropean Art Gallery\, MNAR\nA special ist portrait painter\, Geldorp Gortzius approached his sitter with a keen interest in capturing not only her posture and childish facial features\, but also something of her inner world. Although the girl’s identity remain s a mystery\, the painting has all the attributes of a genuine portrait - a mimetic representation of a real person.\nThe cat\, on the other hand\, is something of a rare presence and therefore more difficult to ‘label’ – could it be some sort of allusion to the sitter’s character\, an emblemati c detail\, or merely an anecdotal addition?\n \;\n \;\n \;\n** *\n\n \;\n \;\nFrancisc Șirato – Woman and Her CatArt Collections Museum\nPaintings of a single female character range high among the favour ite subjects of Francisc Șirato (1877 – 1953)\; every so often the sitter is Lila Nădejde\, the artist’s niece. Paintings bear simple yet clear titl es\, as in the case of Woman and Her Cat.\nThe female figure dominates the sketchy landscape in the background while acting as a backdrop for the sl eepy grey cat in the foreground. The picture echoes the inter-war Paris Sc hool interest in colour as a backbone of composition design.\nPainter\, gr aphic artist and art chronicler Francisc Șirato was also a member of the s o-called ‘Group of Four’\, the name under which painters Nicolae Tonitza\, Ștefan Dimitrescu and sculptor Oscar Han exhibited together between 1925 and 1933. Then as later\, regardless of subject\, Șirato’s paintings revol ve around colour and light\, core elements of his artistic quest.\n \; \n***\n\n \;\n \;\nGheorghe Petrașcu - Mariana with a CatThe K.H. Zambaccian Museum\nThough greatly influenced by Nicolae Grigorescu and imp ressionist painting\, Gheorghe Petrașcu (1872 – 1949) developed a highly i ndividual style\, based on the tactile quality of the rich paints he emplo yed. The artist focuses primarily on landscape and still-life\, doubled by a range of more intimate subjects featuring the family environment and th e studio\, in which he really excelled.\nPetrașcu tackled human face rathe r rarely and then only to paint people he felt really close to\, such as f amily members and friends.\nThe sitter in this painting is Mariana\, the a rtist’s daughter\, holding the family cat in her lap. The painting speaks of the innocence typical of young age resorting to a virtuoso handling of colour.\n \;\n \;\n***\n\n \;\nTheodor Aman – Woman with Her D og\, 1862Romanian Modern Art Gallery\, MNAR\nTheodor Aman(1831-1891) maste red large historical canvases as well as small portraits and genre scenes. The latter speak to us with a type of directness unmatched in his formal\ , large-size compositions\, and allow the artist to attune his fine visual sensitivity to the subjects depicted: his rendering of genre scenes is fr esh and assumedly unpretentious\, a genuine tribute to intimacy.\nWoman wi th Her Dog realistically depicts the female sitter – presumably Frosa\, Am an’s favourite model –\, in what is a free\, somewhat dreamy\, rather abse nt posture\, far from the stern rendering typical of the artist’s contempo rary formal\, official portraits. The black dress enables Aman to quietly prove his painterly prowess. A dynamic brushwork\, remindful of a late rom anticist approach\, matches the broad treatment of the painting surface wh ereas some details are more freely rendered\, showing Aman’s openness to o pen-air painting. The little furry dog\, presumably a family pet\, sits qu ite alert at the woman’s feet. The same dog also features in a canine port rait at the Theodor Aman Museum as well as in Lady Painting at the Art Mus eum in Craiova.\n \;\n \;\n \;\n***\n #StamAcasa #aproapedeART A #ARTAonline #MuseumAndChill https://mnar.ro/component/rseventspro/evenim ent/470-join-us-for-a-pet-led-tour DTSTART:20200407T081110Z DTEND:20200531T180000Z LOCATION:Muzeul Național de Artă al României (Calea Victoriei 49-53\, Bucur ești\, România) SUMMARY:Join us for a pet-led tour! URL:https://mnar.ro/component/rseventspro/eveniment/470-join-us-for-a-pet-l ed-tour END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR