Before we subscribed to Netflix a couple of years ago, it had been decades since I had seen a completeversion … More
Month: October 2016
Detecting Inpainting in Artwork
If you’ve spent time around artists, museums, or artwork in general, you have probably heard the term inpainting. Simply put, … More
History’s Stylus Remains Stuck in the Same Groove
The 2016 presidential election seems the most contentious of my lifetime. The amount of cognitive dissonance and outright hypocrisy among … More
Allegorical Fame by Hyacinth Phileas Sobre
Allegorical bronze figure of Fame by Hyacinth Phileas Sobre (French, 1826-1902) Virgil wrote of her Roman equivalent, Fama, having … More
Evaluation of the Day: October 7th – Rembrandt van Rijn Etching
Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others Etching by Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn (1606-1669), circa 1790s impression on laid … More
Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali and the Héliogravure
Today I had the pleasure of evaluating a copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from a rare, limited … More