Apr 6, 2018 | PoP Highlights, Renaissance
Piero di Cosimo, A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph,ca. 1495, Oil on poplar, 65.4 x 184.2 cm As much as I love looking at art, it is a rare experience for me to come undone in front of a painting. On a recent art viewing trip to London I walked through the National Gallery...
Aug 1, 2017 | Baroque, PoP Highlights, 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...
Feb 10, 2014 | PoP Highlights, Renaissance
El Greco, Laocoon, 1610/1614, Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 172.5 cm “Painting,” Gabriel Orozco believed, “assails the mind. It persuades the heart.” Stretch, a moment, a hide taut between threads and wind the threads around a wooden frame. Stitch this skin, recently nestled...
