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"To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius."
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (After Caravaggio
by Joe 
Grenn

A friend once said to me, " I don't believe in religion. Why would you ever paint religious scenes?" But I don't paint them because they are religious. They are fantastic mystical stories that have held up for centuries, as have those of Shakespeare or Homer. 

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How The Duccio Block Became David

This is an incredible story about a genius and a block of marble from Carrara known as the Duccio block. In 1464, the officials in charge of the Opera del Duomo ordered a statue of David to be sculpted.
 

A huge slab of marble was extracted from the Carrara quarries in Tuscany for the project. One of Donatello’s students, Agostino di Duccio, was awarded the job but abandoned it for unknown reasons. 

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James Tissot: Fashion & Faith at the Legion of Honor
San Francisco
October 12, 2019 – February 9, 2020
 
James Tissot was one of the most celebrated artists of his time, yet today, less is known about him than his contemporaries, the Impressionists. This first major reassessment of Tissot’s career offers West Coast audiences a rare glimpse at the fascinating life and dazzling art of a man who captured an era.
Did You Know That

Washington Irving ( 1783 – 1859), American’s first professional author, and creator of Rip Van Winkle and The Headless Horseman, moaned that New York, a dignified old Dutch settlement, was now being overrun by the crassly commercial, money-grubbing Yankees from New England: “ a long sided, raw-boned, hardy race of whoreson whalers, woodcutters, fisherman, and... 
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