Giorgione et al...

"Giorgione is regarded as a unique figure in the history of art: almost no other Western painter has left so few secure works and enjoyed such fame..." Sylvia Ferino-Pagden.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Giovanni Bellini: St. Francis in the Desert

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                       For over 60 years the Frick Museum in New York City has been my favorite museum. It is a small, easily navigated...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Raphael: Vision of Ezekiel

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Scholars still question Vasari's attribution to Raphael of a small painting called, The Vision of Ezekiel.    I will leave the que...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Raphael's Madonnas

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In the first decade of the sixteenth century the work of Raphael indicates a strong interest in episodes on the flight of the Holy Family...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Doni Tondo: Nudes and Nephilim

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In recent years the five nude young men in the background of Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo have received as much, if not more, attention th...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Doni Tondo: John the Baptist *

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In the  Doni Tondo  Michelangelo placed the Holy Family outside in a landscape. He used the setting of one of the most popular legend...
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