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Get Real: Sight-size is Not a Traditional Method of Drawing and Painting
But above all, the best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the...
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David
Aug 29, 20234 min read
Romanticizing the Stones
Some Good Things that Happened to Cities after the Middle Ages There’s a substantial cadre of urbanists who think of themselves as...
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Aug 16, 20232 min read
Disegno and Pentimenti
one of the qualities that make Old Master drawings both beautiful and interesting is their pentimenti
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May 25, 20234 min read
Is AI’s Idea of Creativity Academic?
The word “academic,” with respect to the arts, has a variety of meanings and connotations today, few of them positive. Academic art is...
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David
Nov 19, 20222 min read
Memory and Imagination
A Postscript to “Can Machines Create?” The ancients knew that imagination depends on memory. That’s why Mnemosyne was the mother of the...
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Nov 17, 20222 min read
Can Machines Create?
on creativity and intelligence, artificial and otherwise
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Apr 10, 20211 min read
After Raphael
On 9 April we held the virtual symposium After Raphael with historians and artists discussing Raphael's impact on the academic tradition...
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Jan 25, 20212 min read
The Frame
I thought to myself, and then said to him, it would be fun to think of the right painting subject for that frame.
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Oct 17, 20203 min read
Not the Usual Suspects
What more can be said or done about the classical orders? Maybe still something...
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Apr 24, 20201 min read
Creativity in Quarantine
Much of the great art of the past was made in worse times.
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Feb 9, 20205 min read
Classicism as a ‘Liberal’ Art
The culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.
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David
May 19, 20192 min read
The Urban Field Hospital: Surgical Implants
I used to think that beauty and truth were what artists largely dealt with, I now can imagine how goodness is more than what each of us does
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Apr 11, 20193 min read
Why I'm Still a Classicist, Part II
PAINTING An architect today can decide to become a classicist, and rather quickly become competent at it. But an artist who wants to be a...
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Feb 12, 20192 min read
Why I’m Still a Classicist, Part I
What is “Classical?” If you don’t define yourself, others will do it for you. For a while I gave up the word “classicist” for “humanist,”...
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Dec 21, 20182 min read
Risky Business
Tintoretto in Venice According to his seventeenth-century biographer Carlo Ridolfi, Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto was “il più arrischiato...
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Nov 27, 20182 min read
Who Do I Think I Am?
My first experience of Rome and Italy shaped my understanding of what it means to be “classical.” Actually, if I hadn’t studied in Rome...
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Nov 9, 20182 min read
Introducing Myself
Welcome to my rebuilt website (still with some rebuilding to do). In this blog section I'll be re-posting some short essays previously...
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