Alberti's Window

This afternoon I've been thinking about Angelica Kauffmann's painting, Self-Portrait Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Pain...

I want to write a blog post on Copley's Watson and the Shark (1778, shown left) for my friend "e." She has been a long-time...

George Frideric Handel (shown on right in a portrait (1726-28) attributed to Balthasar Denner) is one of my favorite Baroque composers. And ...

When I was in elementary school, I had to give a report on Dolley Madison. I was fascinated with Dolley's life, and poured over a child...

I'm still thinking about Watteau this week. On the left is a portrait of Watteau by Rosalba Carriera (1721). Just in case you'r...

In my earliest art history classes, I remember learning that Watteau was associated with the "fête galante" genre from the Rococo ...

Halloween is here and I can't help but think of all the creepy, spooky art that exists. I think some of the creepiest art belongs to Go...

I've had a little bit of insomnia lately. It hasn't been too bad, but substantial enough to be annoying. Last night, as I was twis...

During the 17th-19th centuries, colonization and global expansion were growing trends in European culture. Although many Europeans enjoyed...

Have you heard the story of how Thomas Jefferson was nearly killed by the artist John H. I. Browere? The elderly, retired statesman and ex-...

Paul Revere, The Bloody Massacre , n.d. I watched the first episode of the John Adams miniseries last night. The beginning of the epis...

Yesterday I was reading about Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1831) and started to think about the Phrygian cap that Liberty is...

I think everyone has some kind of dream in which their worst fears are realized. Apparently, my worst fear revolves around being unprepared...

When I was in college, one of my professors explained her theory that art is cyclical in nature. Over the centuries, there are certain them...

Like most people who study art, I was taught that Goya's portrait, Family of Charles IV (1800-1801) , is a caricature of the royal famil...

Keeping with this week's theme of stolen art, I am particularly interested in the story regarding the portrait Georgiana, Duchess of Dev...

This month marks the one year anniversary of my thesis defense. I think I will always associate Leap Year Day as the day I became a Master ...

Jacques-Louis David was the most influential Neoclassical painter; he also was arguably the most influential painter of the 18th century (an...

Ever since I was a teenager, I have been fascinated by the mountains and rocks. In college I toyed with the idea of becoming a geologist, b...

For the past week or so, I have been madly trying to research for my thesis topic before we leave for Brazil. I know that I'll be able ...