by Jon Lackman | 8 December 2008 | Uncategorized
There still are not many art historians blogging, but let’s note a couple worthwhile sites we’ve not yet indicated:
Jonathan Janson considers all things Vermeer. An artist himself, he writes with particular sensitivity to technical aspects:
Vermeer used glazing as other Dutch painters, with parsimony. They knew glazing is not an answer-all technical solution and is most effective in isolated areas of a painting where its characteristics are fully enhanced. By the way, the lemon yellow jackets of Vermeer’s women are not glazed. They are painted with the defunct lead-tin yellow, a rather thick, dullish yellow which pales next to cadmium yellow but through careful juxtaposition shines in Vermeer’s work.
KC writes on life after art history:
I used to be an art historian. I had a tenure-track position, students who loved me, students who hated me, interesting colleagues, uninteresting colleagues, a great office with a wall of windows, a laser pointer and funky shoes. Then I met N, fell in love, decided to give it all up, came to Italy, got married, started this blog, and had a baby. A good friend from graduate school, who, like me, now lives a life bereft of art history, recently confessed to me that she misses it. I miss it too. I miss it bitterly.
