Feb 5, 2020 | Medieval, Renaissance
Master of the Osservanza, Triptych of St. Anthony, c. 1430/1435, Tempera on poplar panel, 19 x 14 inches (each panel), The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “Back to back, belly to belly Well I don’t give a damn ‘Cause it doesn’t matter...
Nov 5, 2019 | Renaissance
Photograph by Max Eicke “This is peculiarly painless.” “That’s because you have to really want it,” Yvonne, with unblinking dark-lined eyes framed by elongated, arched eyebrows, concentrates as she combs cross-hatched lines of ink under my skin with the vibrating...
Jun 11, 2019 | Renaissance
Young Girl with a Dead Bird, Anonymous, South Netherlandish School, Oil on panel, 36.7 x 29.8 cm (14.4 x 11.7 inches), Circa 1500-1525 I first came across her in a book I checked out from the library, probably around 2005. I was an undergraduate painting student and...
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...
Apr 6, 2018 | 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...
