The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is now showing the largest exhibition of works by Renaissance Master Sandro Botticelli ever assembled in the United States, including a version of his famous Venus. In our feature, we recount Botticelli's life and times, from his days as a favored painter of the Medicis, to his ultimate destitution, to his posthumous fame. In our featured News and Articles section, we bring you a selection of important upcoming auction lots for the week, as well as 10 recommended exhibitions opening around the world. And in this week's video, we learn more about the Birth of Venus, from none other than Sister Wendy. 

From Venus to the Virgin, Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter—with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in flowing tresses and drapery—has become emblematic of the Italian Renaissance, and his works are among the most recognizable in the world. Less well known is the fact that Botticelli, while patronized by the Medicis and famous in his own time, fell out of favor late in his life, abandoned many of his own paintings, and was almost entirely forgotten. The ethereal, saintly calm and composure of his figures belie the tumultuous times in which they were painted. Botticelli and the Search for the Divine, a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), explores the changes in Botticelli’s style and subject matter in the context of the shifting political realities in Florence during his life, and the events that nearly wiped out his oeuvre.

Traición a Cristo en el huerto de Getsemaní 

Esta monumental obra  se refiere a una de las composiciones religiosas más importantes de la obra que ejecutara en su temprana  madures  Federico Cantú . De acuerdo con los relatos presentados en los Evangelios Sinópticos y en el Evangelio de San Juan, La Traición de Cristo tiene lugar en el Jardín de Getsemaní en el Monte de los Olivos.

 Una luna creciente, un cálido resplandor en esta dramática y nocturna escena, en la que un grupo de soldados y fariseos conducidos por Judas asaltaba el Monte para arrestar a Cristo. 

Cristo aparece como figura central dispuesto   ya amanera de composición simétrica los apóstoles de un lado izquierdo y del derecho La Traición

la escena.

Las circunstancias precisas en torno a la creación de Federico Cantú de esta composición parten del proyecto monumental de los doce vitrales representados a lo largo de la capilla de lo misioneros de Guadalupe, Actualmente se conocen tres versiones autógrafas de la Traición de Cristo de Federico Cantú. La primera está tomada de tema para placa de grabado al buril en cobre, la segunda se refiere a los temples en papel que desarrollara a manera de estarcidos y que darán forma a el formato vitral

La tercera y final es la perteneciente a la Capilla de los Misioneros , toda esta serie de obras que en su conjunto nos narran los diferentes pasajes bíblicos que Cantú ejecutara en 1957 para este recinto, sin duda esta obra es muestra de la visión estética y compositiva de la obra de Federico Cantú

Adolfo Cantú.

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Federico Cantú 1907-1989

Easter, also called Pascha (Greek/Latin) or Resurrection Sunday,is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the sun; rather, its date is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March,but calculations vary.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. In many languages, the words for "Easter" and "Passover" are identical or very similar. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, and include sunrise services, exclaiming the Paschal greeting, clipping the church

Un día como hoy pero de 1919 murió Emiliano Zapata.

Emiliano Zapata fue uno de los líderes militares más importantes de la Revolución Mexicana y uno de sus principales símbolos. Recordamos al Caudillo del Sur como un defensor de los ideales revolucionarios.

 

Cantú llevo el tema de Zapata a la monumentalidad 

Y lo recreo con temas de caballete

Sin duda un icono mas dentro de su mexicanidad

Adolfo Cantú

Colección de Arte Cantú Y de Teresa

Dear Bo,

On April 12, works from the Artist Pension Trust (APT) Collection will appear at auction in the Sotheby's London Contemporary Curated sale. As a mutual assurance program that supports select artists with long-term financial security, proceeds from the sale of APT works will benefit its member artists. We take a look at some of the highlights of the sale, including works by Wilhelm Sasnal, Liam Gillick, and Douglas Gordon. In our featured News and Articles section, we bring you a selection of important upcoming auction lots for the week, as well as 10 recommended exhibitions opening around the world. And in our video, we hear from APT Artist Lee Kit, whose work is included in the Sotheby's sale, about his “obsession with objects.” An Auction to Benefit Artists: Works from the APT Collection at Sotheby’s London Bob & Roberta Smith, Jasper Johns is a Dinosaur, 2002, oil on canvas, 20.078 x 19.881 inches (51 x 50.5 cm), Lot 57. Following on the success of the first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust®(APT) Collection at Sotheby’s New York earlier this month,  further artworks from the collection will be offered at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Curated sale on April 12, 2017. These include a strong selection of works by beloved British artists like Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, and Bob & Roberta Smith, as well as other international artists, at a wide range of price points, with low estimates from $1,200 (1,000 GBP) to high estimates of up to $35,000 (30,000 GBP).