Well, it is not the sunset of Vernelle Studio nor the Blog at Vernelle Studio. However, a change is being made. Starting September, there...

Oh no, no. This is Mondrian, the neo-plastician of red, blue, yellow, white and black fame, creator of De Stijl, and no pussyfooting around.

I was fascinated by a buckskin shirt worn by Tashunca-uitco, not realizing that I knew him by another name - Chief Crazy Horse.

As an artist, the lives of artists in other cultures has fascinated me, especially so when I think about the painters of Imperial China.

I wish I could truly say, "My Name is the Persian Miniature" but I am not Orhan Pamuk. I will just tell you what I know.

We do not know his name, but his dignity speaks volumes. This is the head of the Ooni of Ifé, home of the Yoruba in Nigeria,around 1300 A.D.

Who dare but a figure sitting in the corner of the eye of a god? The Maya. That is just one of the mysterious things about their culture.

After 300 years, this great female painter is making the rounds this year of schools, libraries, doctor's offices and even prisons!

Edouard Manet captured it - that gaze, eyes a bit unfocused, looking but not seeing, with the mind lost in thought.

Not all of the assembled poor and common looked at the saint. No some looked down on their betters, the assembled royals of Spain, c.1798

The apocryphal tale goes like this: Two old men spy on a beautiful woman and accuse her of adultery when she won't have sex with them.

"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley. The other was Diego. Diego was by far the worse." Frida Kahlo

Caravaggio was a bad-boy painter if there ever was one. But as he had his lows, so did he have his highs, like this most beautiful of angels

When art breaks the rules in a big way and goes far beyond its normal bounds, we call it avant-garde. But this is not a modern development.

Artists studios are unique places, stores of creative energy and its products. Visiting the studios of famous artists amplify this feeling.

Why are the figures in the Arnolfini Wedding standing all dressed up in a rather ordinary bed chamber with a dog and old clogs thrown aside?

My favorite of Lautrec's pastels is Le Lit. I look at it and wonder if this was from Lautrec's real life or just wishing it was.

For ages it was deemed impossible to find, requiring either a blistering crossing of the Sahara if coming from the north, or an equally...

I always wondered what it was like in Delft that day, October 12, 1654. When I think of Delft, I think immediately of Vermeer and his...

Note: This post was composed the week before the beautiful heart of France, Notre Dame de Paris, burned. I dedicate this to another...