I’ve begun reading the essays included in a catalog I picked up last May while visiting the Prado and so far the first one is truly fantastic (if only all art analysis were written with such grace and clarity!). The catalog is called Velázquez’s Fables and the first essay is entitled “Velázquez as History Painter: Rivalry, Eminence and […]
We each must choose our conversation… and with whom to have it. – TJA
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King P2 – Pieta’ – 1496, “a few years later”, “surpassing not only the sculptures of all of M’s contemporaries but even those of the ancient Greeks and Romans themselves–the standards by which art was judged.” P3 – Julius’ plan for his monument: “…a memorial that was to […]
Is it a self-portrait?
This post was once titled “Books I Wish I knew About Sooner”, but then I remembered: sometimes books don’t find you until you are ready. Browse at your own risk.
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