After Raphael
On 9 April we held the virtual symposium After Raphael with historians and artists discussing Raphael's impact on the academic tradition...
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David
- Jan 25
- 2 min
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.
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David
- Oct 17, 2020
- 3 min
Not the Usual Suspects
What more can be said or done about the classical orders? Maybe still something...
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David
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min
Creativity in Quarantine
Much of the great art of the past was made in worse times.
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David
- Feb 9, 2020
- 5 min
Classicism as a ‘Liberal’ Art
The culture of classical humanism provides the firmest foundation for rebuilding a liberal architecture.
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David
- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
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
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David
- Apr 11, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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David
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
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,”...
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David
- Dec 21, 2018
- 2 min
Risky Business
Tintoretto in Venice According to his seventeenth-century biographer Carlo Ridolfi, Jacopo (Robusti) Tintoretto was “il più arrischiato...
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David
- Nov 27, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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David
- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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