J. S. Marcus

5 days ago | wsj.com | J. S. Marcus

Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is suffused with grief. Starting in the 1510s, when he was likely not yet 30 years old, Titian developed a style that used rich colors and striking dynamism to enliven the new medium of oil painting. He became Venice’s, indeed Europe’s, most celebrated artist, and then, some four decades later, that style began to break down.

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During an unusual spate of rainy weather last month, residents of Madrid were looking for any excuse to stay indoors. But over at the city’s Museo del Prado, Spain’s flagship cultural institution, the crowds waiting to get in stretched as usual right around the Neo-Classical museum building, decorating the beige façade with a steady display of multicoloured umbrellas.

1 month ago | wsj.com | J. S. Marcus

These outer islands offer beaches, mosaics, shimmering lagoon vistas, fishing villages and the rhythms of traditional Italian lifeBy Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 02:07This article is in your queue. Italy’s Venetian Lagoon is regarded by many travelers as just something to pass through on the bridge that connects Venice to the mainland.

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Durant sa période de maturité, au cours des premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) fut sans doute l’artiste la plus acclamée des Pays- Bas. Propulsée vers la gloire à la fin du XVIIe siècle, alors que la Hollande atteignait son âge d’or, la peintre s’est illustrée dans l’art de la nature morte, produisant un remarquable corpus de compositions florales somptueuses.

1 month ago | mansionglobal.com | J. S. Marcus

German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner was head of AOL Germany in the 1990s and a California venture capitalist in the early 2000s. In 2005, he decided to add castle owner to his résumé. That fall, the Hamburg native paid 7 million euros for the Weissenhaus estate, a beachfront property on northern Germany’s Baltic coast with a 26,900-square-foot castle and some three dozen other structures.