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David Mayernik designed stage sets for Chicago's Haymarket Opera company's February performance of Charpentier's La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers
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Allegorical Self Portrait by David Mayernik
intarsia panel executed by Daniele Parasecolo
David Mayernik is an internationally recognized artist and architect practicing in the Renaissance humanist tradition. His work as a fine artist ranges from drawing and watercolor to oil, buon fresco and sculpture. As a designer he works on projects from the urban scale, to campus planning, architectural design and interiors. His work in the decorative arts includes furniture design, decorative objects, and stage sets. An associate professor with the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture, his research includes studies of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, and theoretical projects that test the insights of his scholarship.
On this site you'll find his research at the Academia Chiron. David Mayernik is co-editor with Taeho Paik of the online Humanist Art Review; he blogs at Emulatio and Plein Air Italy. For more information about his frescoes and the contemporary fresco tradition, visit the Fresco Trail website.
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my logo is derived from the impresa of the Accademia di S. Luca, whose motto was Aequa Potestas, or Equal Power among the three arts of painting, sculpture and architecture
David Mayernik Ltd. is showing among the "Historicism Tendency" at the IIIrd Moscow Biennale
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“[S]et designer David Mayernik's painted revolving panels mirrored the authentic sounds emanating from Trompeter's "pit" band.”
Chicago Tribune
“[A] finely played, carefully sung, lovingly detailed period performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers” by the tiny Chicago troupe the Haymarket Opera Company on Friday evening.”
New York Times