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On Books, Covers, and Venetian Facades
the Ca’ d’Oro is not composed like a typical, or normative, Venetian palace.
David
Dec 29, 20244 min read


What's Wrong with Tradition?
Tradition is a modern idea.
David
Dec 13, 20243 min read


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...
David
Jan 6, 20243 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...
David
Aug 29, 20234 min read


Disegno and Pentimenti
one of the qualities that make Old Master drawings both beautiful and interesting is their pentimenti
David
Aug 16, 20232 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...
David
May 25, 20234 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...
David
Nov 19, 20222 min read


Can Machines Create?
on creativity and intelligence, artificial and otherwise
David
Nov 17, 20222 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...
David
Apr 10, 20211 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.
David
Jan 25, 20212 min read


Not the Usual Suspects
What more can be said or done about the classical orders? Maybe still something...
David
Oct 17, 20203 min read


Creativity in Quarantine
Much of the great art of the past was made in worse times.
David
Apr 24, 20201 min read


Classicism as a ‘Liberal’ Art
The culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.
David
Feb 9, 20205 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
David
May 19, 20192 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...
David
Apr 11, 20193 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,”...
David
Feb 12, 20192 min read


Risky Business
Tintoretto in Venice According to his seventeenth-century biographer Carlo Ridolfi, Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto was “il più arrischiato...
David
Dec 21, 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...
David
Nov 27, 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...
David
Nov 9, 20182 min read
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