Julie Heffernan on El Greco

Julie Heffernan on El Greco

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...
Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET

Rackstraw Downes on Hercules Segers at the MET

Hercules Segers, Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version, 1625-30, Line etching and drypoint printed in blue, on a pink ground; second state of two, 6 x 6.3 inches, On view at ‘The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers’ exhibition at the MET in New...
Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd

Luke Murphy on Robert Fludd

     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...
James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer

James McGarrell on Jan Vermeer

Jan Vermeer, The Artist in His Studio, 1665-1670, Oil on canvas, 52 x 44 inches, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna For a long time in my early development as a painter I regretted that the medium did not arm its practitioners to control movement in time as the...