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My third grouping of essays are currently being posted from the January to April time frame. The focus of this group is to improve the brevity of my statements and my understanding of conceptual content. The essays are all built on my perspective and voice, which in turn is refined by my training. Where I'm wrong, I say so, especially when it comes to my initial impressions, which are not apart of the essays but placed in their own comments.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

(artist(s) unknown) (concecrated 550, various developments to structure and decoration spanning from the 6th to 9th centuries). The Transfiguration of Christ with Saint Apollinaris, First Bishop of Ravenna [apsidal mosaic]. Church of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe.

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The top-most register depicts the representative icons of the four apostles (from left to right, Eagle/John, Man/Matthew, Lion/Mark, Bull/L...

(Neolithic shelter painting, artist(s) unknown) (4000 to 2000 bc). People and Animals [rock painting]. Cogul, Lérida, Spain.

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The rock-shelter painting People and Animals is a work of objective abstraction. Figures, mostly women, are severely reduced to angled and ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

(artist(s) unknown, detail from Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus) (c.250). Battle Between the Romans and the Barbarians [marble deep relief]. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

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Hyper-realism arguably applies, but a hint of the abstraction that would become characteristic of Roman expression in the coming centuries ...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Hans Holbein the Younger (1540). Henry VIII [oil on wood panel]. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome.

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Holbein the Youger’s Henry VIII is a simple political portrait of the same vein as Augustus of Primaporta or John Copley Singleton’s Samu...

Myron (c.450 bc). Diskobolos [Roman copy is marble, original is bronze]. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

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Diskobolos is one of the premiere examples of mature classic Greek artistic expression. The subject, captured in the pinnacle moment of ten...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

(artist(s) unknown) (l.6th). Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels [encaustic on wood]. Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt.

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The development of forms in this work carries an undeniable reference to the realism preferred during the Roman Empire. In fact, realism sli...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Kallikrates and Iktinos (447 to 438 bc). Parthenon [marble and masonry]. Ruins of Athens.

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The Parthenon represents each of the three major types of artistic expression. The marble and masonry used in its construction is refined b...
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