The culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.

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

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 classicist has a lo...

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,” to ally myself more...

Tintoretto in Venice According to his seventeenth-century biographer Carlo Ridolfi, Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto was “il più arrischiato pittore del mondo,” t...

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 as an undergraduate a...

Welcome to my rebuilt website (still with some rebuilding to do). In this blog section I'll be re-posting some short essays previously included in my researc...