Zita Lauterfeld

Artist and art historian

Tag: art history

  • The White Road Series: Peranakan Chinese porcelain

    Over delicious Kaya toast and kopi, he shared his family history as a third-generation Indonesian-born Chinese and his cultural identity. He also helped me to understand the meanings of ‘Peranakan’, ‘Nyonya’ and ‘Baba’.

  • The White Road Series: Chinoiserie

    My visit to Wilanów Palace, expecting to be awed by its 17th century Baroque architecture, took an unexpected turn with the ‘Chinese Room’. 

  • The White Road Series: Dutch Delftware

    I ask myself, what is it about porcelain that so captivates me?

  • Timeless Beauty?

    Sandro Botticelli’s celebrated painting, traditionally entitled Venus and Mars, is spending the summer at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

  • Seeing the Unseen

    May 1610. Caravaggio is in Naples working on the last picture he’d ever paint.