25 August 2015

On vacation: Giovannino's Menagerie

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Giovannino de Grassi, d. 1398.
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18 August 2015

On vacation: Marietta's Song

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 " Marietta's Song ", sung by Anne Sofie von Otter,  from Die tote Stadt by Erich Korngold, 1920. Glück, das...
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08 August 2015

On vacation: Oranges

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Wrapped Oranges , William J. McCloskey, 1889. 12” x 16”. Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
31 July 2015

On first looking into Chapman's Homer

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In recent weeks I have been sorting through Pierre MacKay 's boxes and drawers and shelves and desks. The last project so far was t...
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24 July 2015

Cheilas' Cleofe

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Mistra in shrouds. Photo by Stella Chrysochoou. The monody by Nikiforos Cheilas is the last of the four monodies delivere...
17 July 2015

The black saint of the Holy Roman Empire

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St. Maurice (detail) 1520-25. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently published a monograph about an addition to the collection, a ...
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10 July 2015

Evliya's sea battle

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The Ottoman Fleet of Tarik-y Bayezid (ink and gold leaf on vellum) 16th century, which is early for Evliya. This week, a section ...
03 July 2015

Justice

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In the Venetian “house of the bailo ,” Halkis, during restoration.   If it was the house of the bailo , justice might have happened her...
26 June 2015

Giovanni's valetudinarian body

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Giovanni Dario between his friends, the Bellini brothers. Gentile Bellini, Procession at San Marco , 1496. Every week the New Y...