The Repository of Lumina
Light held gently — still shining
Works defined by light — golden hour, diffused daylight, soft glow, hazy sunshine, gentle radiance.
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Repository (1300s) — a secure place built to preserve precious or sacred things. Lumina is Latin for “light”, the old term in art treatises for illumination and soft radiance.
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Farmhouse in Provence
The Water Fan
The Tired Gleaner
Sandvika Norway
The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna
Christ's Charge to Peter
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)
The Madonna of Humility
Copy after the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli in the Uffizi (Florence)
Coronation of the Virgin
The Adoration of the Magi
Madonna and Child
Arm of Eve
Female Nude Seated on a Low Bench
Study for The Channel at Gravelines, Evening
A Summer Landscape
Landscape at Loosduinen
Boats on a Beach, Etretat
Mountain Landscape at Sunset
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)
A still-life with a spray of flowers
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Storm in the Mountains
The Voyage of Life, Youth