Art

Souvenirs

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I came across a neat slideshow at TIME.com with photos of one of the biggest museums in the world, one Team AZ will be seeing in 2009:  “The Louvre: France’s Iconic Museum”. If you have some knowledge of art history, you’ll know that the Louvre houses one the world’s most famous paintings, La Giaconda, [...]

The Sistine Chapel

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

People enjoy mysteries and codes and secrets. Witness the mania in delving behind the esoteric veils of such institutions of the Vatican, Opus Dei, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, et cetera, engendered by Dan Brown’s entertaining (but wildly inaccurate) novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Witness too the millenarian zeal to find contemporary [...]

In Living Color

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Although we’re used to seeing it in its history-stained, marbled whiteness, we’ve known for some time that ancient Greek architecture such as the Parthenon was painted in bright, some might say garish colors. Here’s more on color in classical art from the Harvard Gazette: “Scholars give us antiquity–the colorized version”. And if you happen [...]