Cultivating greater enjoyment of the visual arts can profoundly change your life.
Art in general–from painting, sculpture and drawing to literature, music and movies–packs that degree of life-enhancing power. But while some people at museums can experience speechless awe when encountering a beautiful painting or sculpture, others can muster only enough enthusiasm to say: “There were some pretty pictures and nice statues.”
Meeting da Vinci’s Ginevra de’ Benci Eye to Eye
“Walk straight down the hall, turn right at the third room, and her eyes will meet yours,” an employee at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. told me when I asked her where I would find “the Leonardo da Vinci painting.”
Read MoreThoughts on da Vinci’s Book on Painting
I reached a milestone in my research for an essay I plan to write about Leonardo da Vinci. I finished reading his treatise on painting
Read MoreWall Art: Building From Bare
Welcome to the wall at my (unusually clean) desk at home. Drab and boring, right? Bookshelves once hung there until the brackets gave and my books tumbled down. I left the wall bare for a year until last summer.
Read MoreReview: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man
The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man is the most informative book I’ve read so far on the depth of Leonardo da Vinci’s thinking as an artist, scientist and engineer.
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