DISMAS AND GESTAS, FRANCISCO DE RINCÓN
November 21st 2025
Dismas (top) and Gestas (lower), Mueo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, originally from the Paso of the Elevation of the Cross (below), Francisco de Rincón 1604. These two figures were created as part of a paso or float made to
Raphael’s Ecstasy of St Cecilia
November 15th 2025
“Ecstasy of St Cecilia”, Raphael , 1516, Bologna, Pincoteca Nazionale. Although St Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians, Luthiers and Singers, there is no evidence that she ever played and instrument or sang even a note! What is
EL Greco’s St Martin and the beggar
November 8th 2025
St Martin and the Beggar”, El Greco, 1597-99, National Gallery of Art, Washington. St Martin was a Roman soldier who lived in the 4th Century. On a cold winter’s day, while stationed near Amiens in Gaul, he came upon
THE DOMINICAN BLESSED
November 1st 2025
“The Dominican Blessed”, left and right piers of the “ San Domenico Altarpiece” Fiesole, 1423-4, Fra Angelico, now at the National Gallery, London. Originally, and as is shown below, these two panels ‘bookended’ the predella of the San Domenico Altarpiece,
