The Tortured Artist
October 10, 2021
The Death of Chatterton, an 1859 painting by Henry Wallis, has come to represent all that we expect of ‘the tortured artist’. The young Thomas Chatterton, having poisoned himself with arsenic, lies dead. A gentle ...
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Painting as a pastime
October 3, 2021
Art is inherently political. Yeh, yeh, you’ve heard it all before. That insipid statement, debated in cold stone school rooms and by bespectacled, turtle-neck wearing pseudos in their mid-teens. It persists. Cliché, bold, and affrontive as it ...
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Signorelli and the Everpresent Apocalypse
September 19, 2021
Orvieto is a small, Umbrian city, set upon an excrescent heap of volcanic rock, which somewhat resembles a ruined classical column, half-inhumed but still striving upwards with unbounded pride. Beneath the rock, a verdurous valley ...
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