DavidApr 10, 20211 minAfter RaphaelOn 9 April we held the virtual symposium After Raphael with historians and artists discussing Raphael's impact on the academic tradition...
DavidJan 25, 20212 minThe FrameI thought to myself, and then said to him, it would be fun to think of the right painting subject for that frame.
DavidOct 17, 20203 minNot the Usual SuspectsWhat more can be said or done about the classical orders? Maybe still something...
DavidApr 24, 20201 minCreativity in QuarantineMuch of the great art of the past was made in worse times.
DavidFeb 9, 20205 minClassicism as a ‘Liberal’ ArtThe culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.
DavidMay 19, 20192 minThe Urban Field Hospital: Surgical ImplantsI 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
DavidApr 11, 20193 minWhy I'm Still a Classicist, Part IIPAINTING An architect today can decide to become a classicist, and rather quickly become competent at it. But an artist who wants to be a...
DavidFeb 12, 20192 minWhy I’m Still a Classicist, Part IWhat 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,”...
DavidDec 21, 20182 minRisky BusinessTintoretto in Venice According to his seventeenth-century biographer Carlo Ridolfi, Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto was “il più arrischiato...
DavidNov 27, 20182 minWho 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...
DavidNov 9, 20182 minIntroducing MyselfWelcome to my rebuilt website (still with some rebuilding to do). In this blog section I'll be re-posting some short essays previously...