The Goldfinch: Truth in Art and Life
Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch, 1654 "We have art in order to not die for the truth." Donna Tartt quotes Nietzche in the opening of one of her chapt…
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Velázquez's Allegories of Deception
Diego Velázquez, Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob, 1630 oil on canvas, Monastery of San, Lorenzo, El Escorial, Spain, 87 3/4 x 98 3/8 in. wikiped…
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Velázquez, Ovid's Myth and the "Spinners" of Fate
Diego Velázquez, Las Hilanderas ( The Spinners ), oil on canvas, H: 220 cm (86.6 in) x W: 289 cm (113.8 in) The Prado, Madrid ( Not for beginning art student…
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The Gentler Side of Caravaggio
Saint Francis in Ecstasy, from the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, is in the Kimbell Art Museum's exhibition, Caravaggio and His Followers until Janua…
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Caravaggio and the Moment of Mary Magdalen
Martha and Mary Magdalene, c. 1598, shows the saint at the moment of her conversion. It is from the Detroit Institute of Arts, but is currently on view in Cara…
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Paintings of Deception
Valentin de Boulogne, Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice, c. 1618/20 A magnificent exhibition of Caravaggio and His Followers at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Wort h…
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Painterly Pleasures
Frans Hals, Young Man and Woman at Inn, 1623 Metropolitan Museum of Art Willem de Kooning, Merritt Parkway, 1959, from the Detroit Institute of Art, Bequest o…
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Ceramic Art: The wonderful tiles of Caltagirone
In the hills of central Sicily the Cathedral of Caltagirone--its dome covered with ceramic tiles--is just one the many wonders in this city of colorful tile (B…
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Ancient Buildings, Modern Use, Part II
The Cathedral of Sircusa (Syracuse), Sicily is built within the colonnades of Greek temple to Athena from the early 5th century BC. Byzantine Christians …
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