Feb 5, 2019 | Baroque, Renaissance
El Greco, Portrait of Hortensio Felix Paravicino, c. 1609, Oil on Canvas, 44 1/8 x 33 7/8 inches El Greco’s painting of 17th century Trinitarian preacher and poet Hortensio Felix Paravicino portrays a man of extreme sensitivity, its directness and compositional...
Oct 6, 2018 | 18th-19th C., Baroque, Renaissance
“Dear Weather” was written on Sunday, December 9, 2012, while Buzz Spector performed as a “writer” in Ann Hamilton’s installation, the event of a thread, at the Park Avenue Armory. Spector hand wrote the text over a four hour period, interrupted by that day’s closing...
Aug 1, 2017 | Baroque, Renaissance
Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of St. Ursula, 1610, Oil on canvas, 61 × 70 inches I was in Naples last May and looked forward to seeing several paintings by Caravaggio, including “The Martyrdom of St. Ursula”, but that painting was in New York, having been temporarily...
May 27, 2017 | Baroque, Renaissance
Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atqve technica historia : in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam diuisa, 1617. A couple years ago I was working in Times Square when the power grid for much of the eastern...
