Oct 14
Dozens of 6tth century vases live at the Metropolitan Museum Greek & Roman Wing. Your early steps reveal Athenian pride; images of athletes and musicians are introduced as icons of the Athenian culture. The main hallway holds the largest vases in terms of mass but for artistic content they are lacking depth. Javoline, diskus and …
Oct 14
Following up on our conversation about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” I wanted to share with you this important recent discovery. Long thought lost, the earliest poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—an African-American woman writer writing before the Civil war—were just found and authenticated by a researcher. If you’re interested in African-American …
Oct 06
“My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die…” -John Keats (Lines 1-4) According to the passage on the sublime, in the Oxford English Dictionary, the sublime is described as “‘things in nature’ that affect the mind with …
Oct 04
Kevin Paredes One piece that resonated with me was the irony of the Temple of Dendur. Technically, the temple itself is not a traditional piece, rather, it was constructed by the Romans. It stands strong and is very stable in nature, which is amazing for a structure over 2000 years old, but what made me …