HeyJaredExploring Art History
🎨 Author and filmmaker Howard Burton's personal explorations of the story of art and the art of beauty
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Three Hidden Treasures - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Only some 5 km southeast of Florence’s famous Duomo, in the rolling hills near the town of Bagno a Ripoli, lies a nondescript-looking building integrally linked to key aspects of the Italian Renaissance and duly filled with some truly wonderful art.<img alt="" cla
Three Hidden Treasures - Part 1 (opens the original)
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Last week, I held forth in considerable detail on what for me is the most striking aspect of the Italian experience: the spectacularly dense distribution of artistic masterpieces throughout the entire land.1Tourists often miss this vital point, as overwhelmed as they reasonably are by the sheer volume of world-famous art and architecture found in unequivocally acknowledged “cultural hubs” like Florence, Venice or Rome - all of which, of course, contain an almost inconceivable number of incompara
Heterogeneous Implications (opens the original)
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After ten long weeks of an intense Tuscan summer, we’re finally back in France, trying to put all our Italian experiences into perspective. Which has proven to be considerably more difficult than expected, largely due to their sheer quantity: we’ve seen so many beautiful things, in so many places, that it was often quite overwhelming, to the point of being almost personally destabilizing.This is hardly, I appreciate, an original sentiment. Indeed, it’s so common that it even has a name: Stendhal
Irrepressible Artemisia (opens the original)
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There’s a well-known phenomenon in academic psychology circles known as “the me search”: the recognition that a significant percentage of its practitioners had been initially attracted to the field in the hopes of finding a way to successfully deal with their own psychological issues.This can naturally be quite problematic scientifically, subtly introducing a worrying number of potentially distortive biases into what should be a coolly objective search for evidence. After all, the point of the v
Fresco Treasure Hunting (opens the original)
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When I first started seriously diving into art history I was vaguely concerned that the prospect of significantly increasing my art historical understanding might somehow diminish that basic childlike sense of wonder that drove me towards exploring its compelling beauty in the first place.It’s all very well and good to know things, but I didn’t want to find myself turning into one of those highly tedious people confidently ambling through museums coolly declaring - or even thinking - things like
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