Dear Reader,
There is a particular quality to midsummer stillness, the hush between the birdsong and the heat, when time seems briefly suspended. In that pause, we notice what abundance quietly insists upon, the texture of things, the depth behind the familiar. This month’s selections are gathered in that spirit, works that ask nothing hurried of you, only that you arrive, and look a little longer. May July find you in a good light.
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🌼 Wednesday, July 1: Flower & Artwork of the Month, The Delphinium, a token of dignity and grace in the Victorian era – Discover James Holland’s exquisite Roses, Poppy, Pelargonia, Delphinium and Calceolarias in a Glass Vase, a summer bouquet frozen in time by one of the finest colourists of the English school and linger on the delphinium, our July Flower of the Month.
⭐ Saturday, July 4: Childe Hassam’s stunning Acorn Street, Boston, July 1919 – The painting that captures the quiet patriotism and luminous spirit that defined his celebrated Flag Series during and just after World War I. Through shimmering color and fleeting light, Hassam transformed the American cityscape into a poetic meditation on democracy, memory, and national identity.
🌊 Wednesday, July 8: The girl on the swing, play, ritual, or something in between? – In the palace world of Neopalatial Crete, a tiny clay figure swings forward in arrested motion, arms outstretched, body tilted, caught at the apex of joy or flight. Made between 1700 and 1450 BC, this figurine from the Heraklion Archaeological Museum carries an outsized question: what was swinging for?
🗼 Tuesday, July 14: Henri Rousseau painted the Republic dancing, and meant every step of it – In 1892, the self-taught customs officer Henri Rousseau marked the centennial of the First French Republic with a canvas that is, among other things, an act of faith. Enjoy!
🐆 Thursday, July 16: A cheetah on a Byzantine bowl: what was a predator doing on the emperor’s table? – Sometime between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, a Byzantine craftsman painted a cheetah onto a ceramic bowl, poised, alert, unmistakably itself. The animal was not decoration in any trivial sense. It was a statement we will explore.
🕍 Tuesday, July 21: Luca della Robbia’s impressive Portico Dome – When the Renaissance ceramicist par excellence crowned the Pazzi Chapel Portico Dome with his amazing glazed terracotta tiles he created a unique harmony of blue, golden, white and green. Enjoy!
🏛️ Thursday, July 23: Spyros Papaloukas paints with a post-impressionist soul rooted in Greek soil – In 1923 the painter retreated to the island of Aegina, throwing himself into the study of the Greek landscape, and there, before the ancient columns of the Temple of Aphaia, produced a small personal masterpiece.
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💐 Wishing you a July rich in beauty and wonder, with art always close at hand,
Amalia Spiliakou / Teacher Curator