Great Art is a mix of two basic components. The first is the accumulation of the past. The second is
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Category: sculpture
Michelangelo's Bacchus (1497) in the Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy
In 2011 I visited the Bargello Museum in Florence for the second time. Prominent among the Michelangelo sculptures on display
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Aphrodite (Venus), Pan and Eros: A sculpture in the National Archaelogical Museum of Athens
Originally published on the 26th November 2013. The National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece, is a museum with many treasures.
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Head of a Woman: Picasso’s interpretations of Fernande Olivier
Edited on the 4th September 2024. Originally published on 22nd April 2013. During a visit to Chicago in 2013, I
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Thomas Schütte’s “Großer Geist Nr. 13”
Geist can mean zeitgeist, the Holy Spirit, a powerful mind, clergyman or ghost, and is used to describe the science
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Thomas Schutte’s “United Enemies”
Thomas Schutte is one of my favourite modern sculptors. Back in 2012 I visited his exhibition “Faces and Figures” in
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Chillida: Gruss an (Hommage à) Heidegger
Δοκεί δε μέτα τι είναι και χαλεπόν ληφθήναι ο τόπος “It appears, however, to be something overwhelming and hard to
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Eduardo Chillida Installation: Comb of the Winds, San Sebastian
“Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.”
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Rodin Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC is one of the best art galleries in the world. When
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A journey in Romanesque and Gothic Art
I have started reading the “History of European Culture”, by Panayiotis Kanellopoulos (1902 – 1986), a Greek author and politician.
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