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(Almost) Doubled: Jost Amman after Lucas Cranach

Jost Amman made his copy of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s print, The Penitent St. Jerome, at the very beginning of … More

art history, brief lessons in connoisseurship, copy and master, early modern art, german renaissance, history of drawing, jost amman, lucas cranach, northern renaissance, works on paper

Copy and Original: Drawings

A while back, I posted two sets of drawings on Instagram. Each pair consisted of a copy after an Old … More

albrecht durer, art history, brief lessons in connoisseurship, connoisseurship, hans hoffmann, history of drawing, michelangelo, old master drawings

Due North – A Long Weekend in Portland, Maine

The heat came early this spring. By May, it was already hot. I was happy to head north in early … More

art history, kennebunkport, maine, ogunquit, portland, tourism, travel, traveling with dogs

Copy and Original

Set A A.1 : Albrecht Durer, Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, from The Small Passion.  c. 1508. Woodcut. Sheet: … More

albrecht durer, art history, brief lessons in connoisseurship, connoisseurship, marcantonio raimondi, old master prints, original and copy, printmaking, prints, raphael, woodblock print, woodcut

Old Master Drawings – Pricking and Pouncing

A few weeks ago, I finally took the plunge and started taking a wax carving class. I’ve wanted to learn … More

art history, design history, drawings, history of drawing, medieval drawings, metropolitan museum of art, old master drawings, Renaissance drawings, works on paper

Make It New, Make It Whole: Re-Reading Panofsky’s Abbot Suger after the Notre Dame Fire

I first encountered Abbot Suger: On the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures, edited, translated and annotated by … More

abbot suger, art history, french gothic, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, medieval art, michael camille, notre dame, panofsky, st.-denis, t.j. clark, viollet-le-duc

Show Me Everything

Hubert Robert, Projet pour la Transformation de la Grande Galerie. 1796. Huile sur toile. H. 113; l. 143 cm. Musée … More

art history, historiography, methodology

Writing Art in the Present Tense

I have a new piece up on the JHI Blog, “Writing Art in the Present Tense.”

art history, books, contemporary art, Douglas Crimp, historiography, TJ Clark

Bernini at the Borghese

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, Borghese Gallery. I’ve been submerged in the writing of yet another piece, and haven’t … More

art history, Baroque art, Bernini, exhibition review, Galleria Borghese

It’s Personal

This Art Newspaper story on the gender imbalance in TEFAF’s upper ranks reminded me that our experiences of art are … More

art history, Bernard Berenson, connoisseurship, Kenneth Clark

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