Surprised by Time

Andrew Wyeth, Frostbitten , 1962. watercolor on paper. 16 x 23 ½ in. Of the more than 370 entries I have written here, the se...

This picture and the one below are from Michael of Rhodes . In trying to find out how Greeks lived their lives in the fifteenth cen...

Crows in moult: the view from my desk. Watching the crows this summer, we have learned to distinguish several of them by a combin...

Possibly Guillaume Dufay. Cleofe probably never had a pavane –it was a slightly later development of a dance form she knew -- bu...

Picture from unidentified source. Help requested. This entry is based on a fascinating article by Angeliki Tzavara and Thierry Ga...

Myth   by Muriel Rukeyser "Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. I...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Coronation of the Virgin.  ca. 1605. Athens, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Collection. ...

These are souls in Abraham's bosom, but it is the closest image I can find for  τατα. Τατα is so variously and inconsistently ...

Archer. Detail from Mantegna , St. Sebastian.  Louvre. ca. 1475. From Cyriaco of Ancona, 5 July 1445, Cydonia, Crete. To ...