This Day in Art History: Passing of Giotto
Giotto is largely credited as being a leader of the early (“Proto-“) Renaissance in Italian painting. His cycle of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, is one of the earliest commi ...
Read More
< Back to Curator's Corner
Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Francesco Borromini
Francesco Borromini was one of a trio of Italian architects (along with Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)) who helped define the Italian Baroque style in architectu ...
Read More
Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Oqwa Pi
Oqwa Pi, whose name translates as Katsina Stick, was part of a generation of Native American artists who attended the Santa Fe Indian School, and took painting classes in The Studio. The school wa ...
Read More
Curator's Corner
Cross-Cultural Similarities: Cambodia
I am really not convinced that aliens came to Earth in ancient times and seeded cultures with the same aesthetic ideas, despite programs on NatGeo or TLC that still propose such scenarios, comparing t ...
Read More
