David Packwood teaches Art History and Art Theory at the University of Warwick in the U.K. He has written various articles and reviews on renaissance and baroque art. He has forthcoming publications on Poussin and Hubert Damisch. In his spare time he blogs at Art History Today.
Packwood's Posts:
27 May 2010 | Renaissance
Plants in renaissance paintings usually have religious associations, but seldom if ever connections with mind-expanding drugs. Now, David Bellamy of Sotheby’s has decided that a plant held by a satyr in Botticelli’s canonical ‘Venus and Mars’ has hallucinogenic properties. After consulting with horticultural experts at Kew Gardens, Bellamy maintains that it is Datura stramonium – [...]
20 April 2010 | Books
Amongst the many topics covered in The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590-1635 (2009), the second volume of seminar papers from the Centre for Advanced Research in the Visual Arts (CASVA), are the following: the function of notaries within the Accademia, the relationship between philosophy, painting and academic theory, and [...]
