Remains of Rome — a Chapbook
Chapbooks are a traditional art-form: small hand- or desktop-printed booklets bound, in this case with saddle-stitch. I recently made 20 of these on tw...
Category: Art
Temple Art — the Nile
I took a boat along the Nile from Luxor to the dam at Aswan and then flew on to Abu Simbel in May 2011. It was a fabulous tour made even better by the dete...
Palermo — art and grunge
An album of photos from a 2-day visit to Palermo, Sicily, in 2018. A fascinating, if unlovely, city with uniquely complex history and some outstanding architect...
365 Aspects of the Art of Photography
I was going to say there’s nothing quite like it. Not about photography; not on the web. Brooks Jensen’s video series “Here’s a Thought” on the art of phot...
Stories from Genesis
The stories of Genesis are the fond of a great deal of Western literature, art and even law. But most of us learned them as illiterates.
Late Byzantine mosaics
In the hills behind Palermo, Sicily, is the community of Monreale — “Royal Mountain” — and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, built by a ...
Hellenistic-Roman Mosaics
September 4, 476 C.E. is the conventional date — sanctioned by Edward Gibbon — for the end of the Roman Empire. On that day, the military leader of the...
Early Byzantine Mosaics
The Second Coming when an eternally youthful Christ, seated on a watery globe from which pour the four rivers of Eden, hands the Martyrs Crown to Saint V...
The Lamentation
The Lamentation of Christ in Death is a group of seven, mediæval terracotta sculptures.
Toledo
The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in a bend of high cliffs over the river Tagus, has been a fortress s...