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• February 16, 2011
  “The Master of the Blue Jeans” at Didier Aaron: a conversation with Alan Salz

  The Master of the Blue Jeans is an old master for fashion week, and for fans of the late Baroque, a curious and incredibly talented portraitist of peasants.

• September 13, 2010
  A Summer for Caravaggio: Part II

  Caravaggio’s anti-climactic demise hasn’t prevented him from being prime for the Hollywood treatment.  Simon Schama’s dramatization of the artist’s life (see video below) from his “Power of Art” series produced by the BBC has been the most recent of note, and is as irresistible as it is melodramatic. After viewing certain portions, one can’t help [...]

• September 3, 2010
  A Summer for Caravaggio: Part I

  In a three part series, OMNP takes an in-depth look at the captivating life of Caravaggio. Part I: A tumultuous life and anticlimactic death.

• April 8, 2010
  Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)

  Artemisia Gentileschi BORN: July 8, 1593 / Rome, Italy DIED: c. 1655 / Naples, Italy KEY WORKS: “Susanna and the Elders,” “Judith Slaying Holofernes”

• March 27, 2010
  Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio (1571-1610)

  Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio BORN: September 29, 1571 / Caravaggio, Italy DIED: July 18, 1610 /  Porto Ercole, Italy KEY WORKS: “Sick Bacchus” [1],“The Cardsharps,” [8]  ”The Lute Player,” [9] “Bacchus,”[10] “Judith Beheading Holofernes,”[18] “Medusa,” [19] “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” [23] “Supper at Emmaus,” [25] “Beheading of St. John,” [39] “David,” [46] “The Calling of [...]

• February 9, 2010
  Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660)

  Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez BORN: June 6, 1599 / Seville, Spain DIED: August 6, 1660 / Madrid, Spain KEY WORKS: “Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV,” [18] “The Surrender at Breda, ” [11] “Juan de Pareja,” [16] “Portrait of Innocent X,” [17], “The Fable of Arachne” [19], and “Mars, God of [...]