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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...

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,”...

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

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...

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