James Thomas Wilentz

James Thomas Wilentz

Researching Palma Giovane

Translation of "Altre Stanze: ANNI ‘50-60"

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Lorenzo Lotto's enigmatic "Venus and Cupid"

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A Zurbarán discovery

Goya's "Sleep of Reason" and the daze of our days

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a natural survey of calabrian beaches brings us to la spiaggia la rotonda. this is a public beach unsullied by traffic both human and auto. its isolae built into the cliffs overlook bathes and dives into the waveless inlet with a sand shelf that drop

from a mozzarella to a scamorza #calabria #festadellareppublica

Research encounters with Boschini's "Carta del Navegar Pitoresco" and the suggestive words of Palma il Giovane on Titian late in life:
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“And Palma attested to me, that he (Titian) painted more with his fingers than with brush

The view from the historic Caffè Pedrocchi in Padova. Little superficial moments like this still impress me in this country. Here is a veritable temple of coffee, guarded by the lions of the adjacent Museo del Risorgimento. One loses themselve

The lions of the so-called Mausoleo Candia in Aquileia, cleaned in the early 2010s, shortly soiled apparently from roadside traffic thereafter. I was a bit shocked to see them in such a condition, having seen photos of them from WWI in a cleaned sta

Un grande ciao a Monica Vitti, the great Italian film actress of the “bella vita” era. Her work with Michelangelo Antonioni was one of the great collaborations in film history. The shot of her face in the wind in L'Avventura and the trip

prima pranzo già abbiocco vibes in Pale. #happyplace #umbria

Venezia noir. #mysterynovel

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