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>MICROSTORIES
- Richard Serra
- Martin Scorsese
- Claude Simon
- Sunshine
- Werner Herzog
- The Creation
- Marcel Duchamp
- Nino Rota
- Wölfflin and Woolf
- Hansjörg Schneider
- Kraftort Arkadien
- Visual Biography
- Schlaraffenleben
- Die Geisteswissenschaften
- The Voyeur
- Buzzword Sustainability
- Paul Verlaine
- Tao Yuanming
- New Beginning
- Seneca
- Still Lifes
- Charles Baudelaire
- Frédéric Chopin
- The Art History of Sustainability
- Wang Wei
- Solarpunk
- Historians of Light
- Lepanto
- Renaturalization
- Plates
- Snow in Provence
- Learning to See
- Picasso Dictionaries
- Peach Blossom Spring
- Picasso Tourism
- Tipping Points
- Sviatoslav Richter
- Weather Reports
- Treasure Hunt
- Another Snowscape in Picasso
- Picasso in 2023
- Dragon Veins
- The Gloomy Day
- The Art of the Pentimento
- Reforestation
- The Status of Painting
- Emergency Supply
- Punctuality
- Watching Traffic
- Zhong Kui
- How Painting Survived the 1990s
- Confirmation Bias
- Sustainability and Luxury
- Garage Bands
- Picasso and Artificial Intelligence
- Eyes of Tomorrow
- Picasso in 2023 2
- Gluing Oneself to Something
- Suburbia
- Bamboo
- Sustainability and Carpe Diem 1
- Interviews with Bruegel
- Sustainability and Carpe Diem 2
- Coffee & Sugar
- Bamboo 2
- Picasso in 2023 3
- Sustainability and Carpe Diem 3
- Cherry Orchard
- Old Magazines
- Chance
- Nick Drake
- Harlequin
- The Smartphone & the Art Book
- Atlas Syndrome
- The Kitchen
- Atlas Syndrome 2
- Consideration
- Tori Amos
- School
- Orchard Auctioning Day
- The Hundred Years’ War
- Sócrates
- Chameleon
- Nefertiti Bust
- Picasso as a Computer
- Sunflowers
- Philemon & Baucis
- Ode to the Radio
- Childhood
- Wimmelbild
- Restitution
- Nick Drake 2
- Wishful Thinking
- Sundays
- The Independent Scholar
- September
- The Fisherman by Pirosmani
- Microadventure
- Sociology
- Salvator Mundi
- Chillon
- Appassionata
- Amber
- Homer
- Berlin
- Planet Walk
- Improvisation
- Seeing Picasso
- These Nice Kids
- Robber
- The One
- The Sea Turtle
- Zoo
- Through the Hush
- Wunderkammer
- I Do Not Seek, I Find
- Shopping Mall
- Food Hamper
- The Secretary
- This Gate
- Nor Rainy Day
- House on a Hill
- Beautiful Island
- Second-hand Bookstore
- Flat
- Slap in the Face
- Serra, Wenkenpark
- Apologies
- The Bells
- Nordmann Fir
- Picasso Wanting To Be Poor
- Picasso, Pirosmani
- A Brief History of Sculpture
- 24 Sunsets
- Rusty Phoenix
- Glove
- Wintry Stanza
- A Song
- Like A Beatle
- Catching An Orange
- Solar Bees
- Permaculture
- >FEATURES
- Van Gogh On Connoisseurship
- Two Museum’s Men
- Ende Pintrix and the City in Flames
- Titian, Leonardo and the Blue Hour
- The Man with the Golden Helmet: a documentation
- Un Jury d’admission à l’expertise
- Learning to See in Hitler’s Munich
- Leonardo da Vinci and Switzerland
- The Blue Hour Continued
- The Blue Hour in Louis Malle
- Kafka in the Blue Hour
- Blue Matisse
- Blue Hours of Hamburg and LA
- A Brief History of the Cranberry
- The Other Liberale in the House
- The Blue Hour in Raphael
- Who Did Invent the Blue Hour?
- Monet on Sustainability
- Velázquez and Sustainability
- The Blue Hour in Guillaume Apollinaire
- Van Gogh on Sustainability
- The Blue Hour in Marcel Proust
- Picasso and Sustainability
- The Contemporary Blue Hour
- The Blue Hour in 1492
- The Blue Hour in Hopper and Rothko
- Hopper and Sustainability
- The Blue Hour in Ecotopia
- The Hour Blue in Joan Mitchell
- Explaining the Twilight
- The Twilight of Thaw
- The Blue Hour in Pierre Bonnard
- Explaining the Twilight 2
- Picasso on Stalin
- Rubens on Sustainability
- The Salvator Mundi in Bruegel and Rubens
- The Blue Hour in Leonardo da Vinci and Poussin
- The Blue Hour in Rimbaud
- Faking the Dawn
- Frost and Thaw in Ilya Ehrenburg
- Picasso, Stalin, Beria
- Picasso, Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
- Shostakovich on Picasso
- Hélène Parmelin in 1956
- Historians of Picasso Blue
- Picasso Travelling to Moscow 1
- The Blue Hour in Caravaggio
- Picasso Travelling to Moscow 2
- Picasso, the Knife Game and the Unsettling in Art
- Some Notes on Leonardo da Vinci and Slavery
- Picasso Moving to the Swiss Goldcoast
- The Blue Hour in Camus
- The Blue Hour in Symbolism and Surrealism
- Caspar David Friedrich in His Element
- Exhibiting the Northern Light
- Caspar David Friedrich in His Element 2
- Robert Schumann and the History of the Nocturne
- The Blue Hour in Robert Schumann
- Caspar David Friedrich and Sustainability
- The Twilight of Thaw 2
- Multicultural Twilight
- The Blue Hour in Anton Chekhov
- The Blue Hour in Medieval Art
- Twilight Photography
- The Blue Hour in Bob Dylan
- Iconography of Optimism
- >SPECIAL EDITIONS
- Visions of Cosmopolis
- Mona Lisa Landscapes
- Turner and Ruskin at Rheinfelden
- Painters On TV & On TV
- Spazzacamini in Art
- A Last Glance at Le Jardin de Daubigny
- The Experimental Cicerone
- A Dictionary of Imaginary Art Historical Works
- Iconography of Blogging
- Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz
- Cecom
- Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship
- Those Who See More
- A Fox on Seeing with the Heart
- Sammlung Werner Weisbach
- Daubigny Revisited
- Some Salvator Mundi Microstories
- Some Salvator Mundi Afterthougths
- Some Salvator Mundi Variations
- Some Salvator Mundi Revisions
- A Salvator Mundi Questionnaire
- A Salvator Mundi Puzzle
- Unknown Melzi
- Francis I and the Crown of Charlemagne
- From Amboise to Fontainebleau
- Drones Above Chambord
- Looking Back At Conques
- Flaubert At Fontainebleau
- Images of Imperial Ideology
- The Chronicles of Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Seeing Right Through Someone
- Melzi the Secretary
- Eying Glass
- A Foil to the Mona Lisa
- A Renaissance of the Cartoon
- Sketching a Family Tree
- Venetian Variations
- A Brief History of Digital Restoring
- A Consortium of Painters
- Leonardeschi and Landscape
- A Christ in Profile
- Learning to See in Spanish Milan
- A History of Gestures
- Leonardo and Josquin
- A Renaissance of the Hybrid
- Suida and Heydenreich
- The Watershed
- Three Veils
- From Beginning to End
- Connoisseurship of AI
- Twilight and Enlightenment
- The Blue Hour in Chinese Painting
- Dusk and Dawn at La Californie
- Iconography of Sustainability
- The Blue Hour in Goethe and Stendhal
- The Sky in Verlaine
- The Blue Hour in Paul Klee
- Iconography of Sustainability 2
- The Blue Hour in Charles Baudelaire
- From Bruegel to Solarpunk
- Some Salvator Mundi Documentaries
- Some More Salvator Mundi Monkey Business
- The Windsor Sleeve
- Brigitte Bardot’s Encounter with Picasso
- Art Historians and Historians
- A Salvator Mundi Chronicle
- The Salvator Mundi and the French Revolution
- The Fontainebleau Group
- The Encounter of Harry Truman with Pablo Picasso
- The Fontainebleau Group Continued
- The Windsor Sleeve Continued
- The Salvator Mundi in Early Netherlandish Painting 1
- Some Salvator Mundi Resources
- A New Salvator Mundi Questionnaire
- The Woman in Picasso
- The Yarborough Group
- Melzi, Figino and the Mona Lisa
- The Yarborough Group Continued
- A Salvator Mundi Global History
- The Salvator Mundi in Medieval Art
- The Salvator Mundi in Medieval Art 2
- The Salvator Mundi in Early Netherlandish Painting 2
- >HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION
- The Mysterious »Donna Laura Minghetti-Leonardo«
- Assorted Demons of Connoisseurship
- Panofsky Meets Morelli
- Discovering the Eye of Sherlock Holmes
- Handling the Left-handed Hatchings Argument
- Visual History of Connoisseurship
- Alexander Perrig
- Connoisseurship in 2666
- What Postmodernity Has Done to Connoisseurship
- Dividing Four Fab Hands
- A Leonardesque Ambassador
- Test Cases in Connoisseurship
- A Raphael Expertise
- How to Tell Titian from Giorgione
- Louise Richter
- The Unique Property in the History of Connoisseurship
- An Expertise by Berenson
- The Book of Expertises
- An Album of Expertises
- An Expertise by Friedländer
- A Salvator Mundi Provenance
- How to Tell Leonardo from Luini
- An Expertise by Crowe and Cavalcaselle
- An Expertise by Bayersdorfer
- An Expertise by Hermann Voss
- An Expertise by Hofstede de Groot
- Leonardeschi Gold Rush
- An Unknown »Vermeer«
- An Expertise by Roberto Longhi
- An Expertise by Federico Zeri
- A Salvator Mundi Geography
- A Salvator Mundi Atlas
- The Bias of Superficiality
- 32 Ways of Looking at a Puzzle
- James Cahill versus Zhang Daqian
- Five Fallacies in Attribution
- On Why Art History Cannot Be Outsourced to Art Dealers
- On Why Artificial Intelligence Has No Place in Connoisseurship
- Salvator Mundi Scholarship in 2016
- Leonardo da Vinci at the Courts
- The Story of the Lost Axe
- The Last Bruegel
- A Titian Questionnaire
- On Where and Why the Salvator Mundi Authentication Did Fail
- The Problem of Deattribution
- >ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP
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Dedicated to Tao Yuanming
(8.5.2022) I am a citizen of the Six Dynasties, and I am a citizen of ancient Rome. I am living in an apartment, just above the bathing house, in ancient Rome; and I am picking chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge. For the moment I am picking chrysanthemums.
Because after we have studied the value of peaceful quiet life in French-poet Paul Verlaine, we are studying the iconic Chinese poem Drinking Wine (No. 5) by Six Dynasties poet Tao Yuanming (and I will not refrain from presenting my own visual adaptation here).
Note that, for a number of reasons, and also out of respect, I have refrained from representing the chrysanthemums. The (more obviously represented) flowers in my painting are remembrances of dahlia I once cultivated in our garden (although these had been red as blood). I have added two boys, fighting for a kind of kite (you can also imagine them to fight for the drone remote control), and the cottage by the highway is inspired from real cottages I have seen close to a highway bridge.
I also would like to confront Tao Yuanming with Roman philosopher Seneca, who, in his 56th letter to Lucilius, discusses how to keep inner peace and quiet, while living above a bathing house in ancient Rome, with the whole cacophony of voices (bakers, sellers of sausages and sweets). Oh, how I would love to live in an apartment, just above a bathing house, in ancient Rome. But for the moment – let it be Six Dynasties chrysanthemums.
I Built a Cottage Right in the Realm of Men (Picking Chrysanthemums by the Eastern Hedge)
(pictures: DS)
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