5/3/2023 0 Comments Tempus edax homo edaciorThe curator Marco Livingstone, who was among the first responders, posted Edward Hopper’s 1907 oil on canvas in the Whitney Museum’s collection, and another apt painting, Robert Delaunay’s watercolor of the spire under a glowering sky. They posted images of Notre Dame in an art-historical tribute that range from Picasso’s darkly cubist painting of the cathedral, which he completed at the end of World War II, to the monument’s famous silhouette as painted by Matisse in 1914, which is in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. As flames consumed the roof of Notre Dame and threatened to destroy the great Gothic cathedral, curators, architects, artists and other figures in the art world took to social media to express their horror at the destruction and hope that it could be saved.
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