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Frank Duveneck (1848–1919)
Francis Boott, 1881
Oil know canvas
Metropolis Art Museum, The King and Colony Irwin Memorial
Cincinnati Clog up Museum, River, USA, Award of depiction Artist/Bridgeman Images
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Be A Person On Who Nothing Is Lost
Truth be told, I am a magpie. I love to collect words, inspiration, ideas, news…anything that glitters and lights my imagination. Today, for example, I collected a news article by Al Fayed abuse survivors on their friendship and how he would be ‘incandescent with rage.’ Into my story file that went!
Into my Evernote file entitled ‘Art Journal’ went some tips on writing by Susan Vreeland, whose art-related fiction novels inspired my own desire to write. The title of a keynote speech she gave, “Be a Person On Who Nothing is Lost,” inspired this post. I haven’t read the speech, but the idea intrigued me. When things are lost they can disappear forever, or be refound and used again. Which is why having a system for keeping ideas and inspiration is so important. When ideas flounder I can go to my various ‘storage units’ and refind them.
This is how I kept the seed of my idea for an art-related novel, Where is Salvator Mundi? based on the sale and disappearance of a painting said to be the Last Leonardo, Salvator Mundi.
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Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Curator James Payne’s Great Art Explained channel is one of YouTube’s gems. For his latest video, he takes a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s mural The Last Supper and explains what makes it such an unusual, impressive, and revolutionary work of art. Here’s how the main part of the video begins:
Milan, 1494: Leonardo da Vinci was an exceptional man, and everyone who met him described him as a genius. And yet, he was now 42 years old — a middle-aged man in an era when life expectancy was 40 — And he still hadn’t produced anything that would be considered a masterpiece by his contemporaries. Many of his works were unfinished or in private collections, there were no great public works that people could see, no architectural marvels and no distinguished altarpieces for cathedrals. Nothing that could be considered worthy of his potential.
Then, he was asked to paint a wall.
I found the discussion of how Leonardo’s knowledge of theatre — he was charged with “creating lavish plays and pageants for the Duke of Milan” — informed his work on The Last Supper particularly interesting. You’ll never see this paintin