(Note before the post: I’m sorry this took so long to get out, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks. I hope you all enjoy it, and let me know what you think!) Last week I read a post about Post-Modern art. In the post, the writer claims that Post-Modern (and modern art as well) […]
Hair spills down around and across her face, rough and unkempt like a rodent’s nest. The hair trails down, ending at her knees and wrapping around her like clothes sewn from rough cloth. Her skin is tanned and rough, her body emaciated. Her face is gaunt from want of food and water, but her eyes […]
Now, as an art historian, I go to a LOT of museums. And, because I go to these places, these veritable sanctuaries of the past and harbingers of the future (as are the cases of galleries and museums of contemporary art), I notice things. Some of which are good, and some of which are not […]
I have been a graduate student at the University of York for six months, and I will be a Master’s level graduate student for six more. From there, I will move up into the mythical world of the Ph.D. As such, I have converted this blog, which was once solely related to art and architecture, […]
Yesterday, I watched the Secret of Kells for the second time. The movie was directed by Tomm Moore and is just one of many attempts to decipher the origins of the medieval Book of Kells. The movie is fantastic and, though probably not exactly historically accurate, well worth the 75 odd minutes of screen time […]
The church of San Cebrián de Mazote is the ultimate Mozarabic church. The church was constructed in the town of Valladolid in northern Spain during the tenth century and represents the final stage of Mozarabic church construction in Spain. San Cebrián has elements from the architecture of the Visigothic kingdom, and from the Spanish Islamic […]
Architecture can act on many different levels; a building can behave in ways that an object cannot. First, a building’s exterior, or “fabric” as it is called in some studies, tells the architectural historian three basic sets of information about a building – the materials of construction, the method of construction (ie how the building […]
