world reviewer
Amber Dobrzensky
Member statistics
- Member since
- 22nd August 2007
traveller & adventurer
Amber Dobrzensky's activity
- 10 Jun 2009
- 21 May 2009
- 20 May 2009
- 18 May 2009
- 11 Dec 2007
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Diving Providencia and Santa Catalina in Colombia
The Colombian islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina, part of the UNESCO Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, lie within the San Andrés archipelago. The islands, situated roughly 125 miles off the Nicaraguan coast, provide a base for exploring over 40 sites o…"
- 14 Sep 2007
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Mursi Cattle Herders of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia
The Mursi are cattle herders, instantly recognisable by the clay plates adorned by their women. Mursi people live in the River Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia and share the region with over ten other cultures, each with a distinct language and set o…"
- 12 Sep 2007
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Monte-Carlo Fireworks Festival in Monaco
The Monte-Carlo International Fireworks Festival is a free event that takes place over several evenings every July and August. Since 1966, countries from across the world have competed to put on the best fireworks display. Over several evenings selecte…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Floralis Generica (Catalano) in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Floralis Generica, a huge steel and aluminium sculpture, was created by Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano and donated to the city of Buenos Aires in 2002 . Located in the United Nations Park next to Recoleta and behind the Mueso de Bellas Artes, the …"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Adoration of the Magi (Da Vinci) in Florence, Italy
The Adoration of the Magi is an early painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the painting unfinished. It has been i…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Last Supper (Da Vinci) in Milan, Italy
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess, Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Mona Lisa (Da Vinci) in Paris, France
Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting on a poplar panel by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is arguably the most famous painting in the world, and few other works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing an…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Great Wave (Hokusai) in New York, United States
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura) is a famous woodblock printing by Hokusai. It was published in 1832 (Edo Period) as the first in Hokusai's series 36 Views of Mount Fuji and is the artist's most famous work. It depicts an enormous wave…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Ophelia (Millais) in London, United Kingdom
Ophelia is a painting by John Everett Millais, completed in 1852. It depicts the character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet singing while floating in a river just before her death by drowning, as described in the play in a famous speech by Hamlet's mother …"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Hay Wain (Constable) in London, United Kingdom
The Hay Wain is an oil on canvas painting by John Constable. It was finished in 1821 and shows a hay wain near Flatford Mill on the River Stour at Flatford, Suffolk.The Hay Wain is revered today as one of the greatest British paintings, but when it was o…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Rain, Steam and Speed (Turner) in London, United Kingdom
Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th century British painter J. M. W. Turner. This painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, though it may have been painted earlier. The date is significant be…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Gilles (Watteau) in Paris, France
Watteau's inspiration for this piece is the mournful character of Gilles, or Pierrot in French, from the Italian improvisational Commedia Dell'Arte. Painted circa 1718-1719, Gilles is an great example of Watteau's Rococo style, which was expressed throu…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Vermeer) in The Hague, Netherlands
The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het meisje met de parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. The painting is currently housed at The Mauritshuis in The Hague. It is…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed View of Delft (Vermeer) in The Hague, Netherlands
The View of Delft is a painting finished around 1660-1661 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the Mauritshuis of The Hague...The View of Delft is chronologically the last painting by Vermeer that was executed in rich, full pigmentation…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (van Eyck) in Paris, France
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish master Jan van Eyck, dating from around 1435. It is on display in the Musee du Louvre, Paris. The work was commissioned by the energetic Nicolas Rolin (chancellor of the Duchy…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch) in Madrid, Spain
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the center panel of a triptych by Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Painted around 1504, The Garden of Earthly Delights is perhaps his best-known work. It depicts the Creation of Earth and the infiltration of sin into mank…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Dance (Matisse) in St. Petersburg, Russia
The Dance is Henri Matisse's painting which has been defined by art historians as "a key point of his career and in the development of modern painting". It reflects Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm colors against the c…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Apparition (Moreau) in Paris, France
Moreau's main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement. …"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Adele Bloch-Bauer (Klimt) in New York, United States
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is a painting by Gustav Klimt completed in 1907. According to press reports it was sold for US$135 million to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galerie in New York City in June 2006, which would make it at that time the most expe…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Kiss (Klimt) in Vienna, Austria
The Kiss (original Der Kuss) was painted by Gustav Klimt, and is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple shrouded in gold and symbols sharing a kiss against a bland background. The man is standing, bending over to kiss the woman who is kneeli…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed American Gothic (Wood) in Chicago, United States
American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood, from 1930. Portraying a pitchfork-holding farmer and his daughter in front of a house of Carpenter Gothic style, it is one of the most familiar images in 20th century American art. Wood wanted to depict the t…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Scrovegni Chapel (Giotto) in Padua, Italy
The Scrovegni Chapel, or Cappella degli Scrovegni, also known as the Arena Chapel is a church in Padua, Veneto, Italy. It contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed about 1305, that is one of the most important masterpieces of Western art. The church w…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Tempest (Giorgione) in Venice, Italy
Giorgione (c. 1477-1510) is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, was an Italian painter, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice...The Tempest has been called the first landscape in the history of Western painting…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Las Dos Fridas (Kahlo) in Mexico City, Mexico
Las Dos Fridas, now hanging in the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939. It shows the juxtaposition of the two sides of her personality; the traditional, very Mexican self and a physically stronger, more c…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Third of May 1808 (Goya) in Madrid, Spain
The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid is an 1814 oil painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It depicts a scene from the Spanish war of liberation when many innocent citizens were shot by Napoleon's troops the morning fo…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Dog (Goya) in Madrid, Spain
On of Goya's 14 'black paintings', the Dog on The Leash was a fresco that was transferred to canvas. It was painted between 1820-23, on the wall in one of the rooms of the Quinta del Sordo (the House of the Deaf Man). The fresco was one in a series of da…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Baptism of Christ (Francesca) in London, United Kingdom
The Baptism of Christ is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1448-1450. It is housed in the National Gallery, London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_of_Christ_%28Piero_della_F…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Orphan Girl in a Cemetery (Delacroix) in Paris, France
This early work by Eugène Delacroix, painted circa 1824, now hangs in the Louvre, Paris. "
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix) in Paris, France
Liberty Leading the People (La Liberte guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorating the Paris Revolt of 1830 in the centre of Paris...Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the tricolore flag of the …"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed The Burial of Count Orgaz (Greco) in Toledo, Spain
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is widely considered to be El Greco's best-known work. It illustrates a popular local legend.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burial_of_the_Count_of_Orgaz This piece remains in the chapel of Santo Tome."
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Gas in New York, United States
Hopper's aim was "the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature" in this case, the loneliness of an American country road. Gas, painted in 1940, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York."
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Nighthawks (Hopper) in Chicago, United States
Nighthawks (1942) is a painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks Nig…"
Amber Dobrzensky reviewed Madonna (Munch) in Oslo, Norway
Madonna is a famous painting by the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch. Munch painted five versions of the Madonna between 1894 and 1895, using oils on canvas...One version belongs to the Munch Museum of Oslo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonn…"
