Essays on Art & Philosophy
Volume 1 UNLIMITED BEING
1988
A. Matisse & The Luminous
B. Brancusi & The Endless
C. Sommer & The Alchemical
D. A NEW SPIRITUAL PARADIGM IN ART HISTORY: A Review of An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Modern Art by Roger Lipsey
Volume 2 POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY
1989
A. POESIS: A Quarterly Review of Poetry by Visual Artists
B. PAINTED LIGHT: Painters & Sculptors as Photographers
C. MODERN ARTISTS: A Comprehensive Archive of Photo-Portraits
Volume 3 VINCENT VAN GOGH: Painter, Printmaker, Collector
Docent Edition – a study guide published by WAP.
Trade Edition published by the Norton Simon Museum.
1990
Volume 4 SACRED VISIONS:
A Survey of World Art & Spiritual Symbolism, vol. 1 (a study guide by WAP for CSUH & HSU)
1991
Volume 5 SACRED VISIONS:
A Survey of World Art & Spiritual Symbolism, vol. 2 (a study guide by WAP for CSUH & HSU)
1992
Volume 6 TRIBAL ART & MULTICULTURAL ART
1993
a THE TRIBAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS: An Overview of Shamanic Art from the Stone Age to the Iron Age (published by WAP as a study guide for CSUH & HSU)
b RHYTHMS & REVERBERATIONS: Multicultural Art in the United States & its Development from the Tribal World (published by WAP as a study guide for CSUH & HSU which LG taught at CSUH as “Ethnic Art” until it was discontinued in 2007. It was first funded by the Chancellor’s Fund for Innovative Teaching in 1993.)
Volume 7 NOTHINGNESS IN ART & PHILOSOPHY
1994
a Leonardo’s Notes on Nothingness
b Being & Nothingness in the Philosophical Aesthetics of Mallarmé
c Nothing is Not: Reflections on Nothingness
d Nothingness, East & West: A Bibliography
e A Note on Nothingness: Mu = Wu = Mu?
f A Note on Nothingness: RGVEDA
g Nothingness in Modern Art: A Bibliography
h Nothingness: An Archive of Articles and Notes
Volume 8a PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
1995
a Perennial Philosophy: A Concise Bibliography
b Perennial Philosophy: A General Bibliography
c Western Philosophy: A Bibliography of General Surveys
d Western Philosophy: General Surveys by Philosophers
e World Art & Perennial Philosophy: A Bibliography
f Modern Art & Perennial Philosophy: A Bibliography
g BALANCED MIND: The Perennial Synthesis of Reason & Intuition in Western Philosophy
Click here for entire document in PDF format
Volume 8b CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES
1995
a THE BIMODAL BRAIN: Parallel Structures in Art, Psychology, & Anthropology
b TEXT-IN-CONTEXT: Reflections on the Science of Metalinguistics
c METALINGUISTIC MENTATIONS: Conversations with Gregory Bateson
d BIMODAL CULTURE: The Graham-Bateson Model
e TEXT & CONTEXT: An Introduction to Metalinguistics with Readings Edited by Gregory Bateson & Lanier Graham [Draft] {first working title: SYMBOL, SELF, & SOCIETY: A METALINGUISTICS READER}
Volume 9 WORLD ARCHITECTURE
1995
a SOLIDITY & INFINITY:
The Mandala in World Architecture, 1995
b SOLIDITY & INFINITY:
The Mandala in Modern Architecture, 1995
c THE PANTHEON OF ROME: A Study Guide, 1995 (2005)
d PAINTER-ARCHITECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE:
Alberti, Piero, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael, & Michelangelo, 1995
e CHRISTOPHER WREN & THE FOUR ELEMENTS:
Traditional Symbolism in Protestant Church Steeples, 1995
f HECTOR GUIMARD, ARCHITECTE D’ART, ENCORE:
Symposium papers at the Museé d’Orsay, published in GUIMARD: COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL, Musée d’Orsay:
f.1 Etudes sur Guimard, Passé et Avenir, 1992
f.2 Guimard, Viollet-le-Duc, et le Modernisme, 1992
g THE GOLDEN RATIO IN WORLD ART & ARCHITECTURE
g.1 The “Section d’Or” Exhibition of 1912. Edited by William Camfield
g.2 THE GOLDEN RATIO IN WORLD ART: A Study Guide. 3rd ed., 2004
g.3 THE GOLDEN RATIO: A Concise Study Guide, 2007
Click here for Guide in PDF format
Volume 10 THE ANDROGYNE IN WORLD ART
1996
(4th edition revised)
Volume 11 THE SYMBOL OF MODERN MEDICINE:
A Pictorial History of the Caduceus
1996
Volume 12 GODDESS STUDIES
1997
a GODDESS IN ART (BOOK published by Abbeville, NYC)
b GODDESSES (BOOK published by Abbeville, NYC)
c GODDESSES IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY (HSU Internet course, Religious Studies Dept.)
d LIVING MYTHS: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD MYTHOLOGY (HSU Internet course, Religious Studies Dept.)
e Goddess Articles
f Goddess Reviews
g Goddess Portraits: A Portfolio of Sculpted Prints
h Goddesses: A Bibliography
Volume 13 Art & Technology: A Reader
1997
(CSUH Study Guide by WAP for “Art & Technology” class)
Volume 14 Mallarmé & Modern Art
1998
(CSUH Study Guide by WAP for “Modern Art” class)
Volume 15 Images of the Infinite
Spiritual Philosophy in Modern Art (CSUH Study Guide for “Modern Art” class)
1998
Volume 16 THE ANDROGYNE BOOK
An Encyclopedia of the Male/Female Ideal in Art, Literature, Psychology, Mythology, & Religion (CSUH Study Guide)
1999
Volume 17 ART OF THE BOOK
1999
Volume 18a SPIRITUAL ICONOGRAPHY
2000
a Bibliography of Iconography
b The Aura in World Religions: A Study Guide
c Angelic Beings: A Study Guide
dThe Mystic Ladder: Parallel Stages of Psychological Development in Western Alchemy & Tantra <Click here for full article in PDF format>
e Tibetan Thangkas
Volume 18b BI-SINGULARITY:
Double-Images of Nonduality
Collected Essays on the Iconography of Sacred Symbols
2000
Volume 19 ART IN THE UNITED STATES
Colonial to Modern {10 internet lectures on Art & Philosophy – a course that started in 1999 with funding from IAD & was updated in 2009 with a transcript of the lectures as a study guide.}
2000
Volume 20 SHAMANIC STUDIES
2001
Volume 21 ALCHEMICAL STUDIES
2001
Volume 22 MODERN & POSTMODERN ARTISTS
MODERN ARTISTS:
2002-2003
1 VAN GOGH
2 MATISSE
3 DUCHAMP MISC.
4 DUCHAMP BOOKS: A Bibliography
5 DUCHAMP IN THE NSM
6 DUCHAMP+SURREALIST TRADITION, softcover
7 DUCHAMP+SURREALIST TRADITION, hardcover
8 DUCHAMP+METAPHYSICS
9 DUCHAMP’S ANDROGYNES
10 DUCHAMP+ANDROGYNY: ART, GENDER, & METAPHYSICS
11 DUCHAMP-IN-A-BOX, hardcover
12a DUCHAMP LEFTOVERS: Video & Installation Photographs
12b FAREWELL MARCEL
13 ERNST & TANNING
14 DALI
15 BRANCUSI, ARP, & NOGUCHI
16 DOVE, O’KEEFFE, & STEIGLITZ
17 CORNELL
18 TOBEY & GRAVES
19 PELTON & SHORE
20 POLLOCK & KADISH
Click here for a copy of Pollock, Hayter & The Seeds of Abstract Expressionism
21 PRINTS OF JACKSON POLLOCK: History & Catalogue Raisonné
22 NEWMAN
23 MOTHERWELL & FRANKENTHALER
24 DE KOONING:
A. PRINTS OF DE KOONING: Tamarind Article
B. PRINT CATALOGUE RAISONNE, VOL. 1: Archive
C. PRINT CATALOGUE RAISONNE, VOL.2: Archive
POSTMODERN ARTISTS:
25 RAUSCHENBERG
26 WARHOL
27 TERAOKA
28 KAHLO
29 HERNANDEZ
Volume 23 COMBINATORY IMAGES
2004
A. William Blake
B. Joseph Cornell
C. Desert Dreams: Ernst & Tanning in the American Southwest
D. Ernst & Sommer: A Special Friendship
Volume 24 OBJETS POETIQUES: A COLLECTION OF SCULPTED POEMS
2004
1 PERSONAL POEMS
2 EUROPEAN POEMS
3 AMERICAN POEMS
4 ASIAN POEMS
5 EUROPEAN ART
6 AMERICAN ART
7 ASIAN ART
8 WORLD ART
9 PORTRAITS GRANDS
10 PORTRAITS GRAPHIC
11 PORTRAITS GRAPHIC
12 EMPTINESS
13 INSIDE OF NOW
14 FLAT-OUT NOWs
15 INFINITY
16 NONDUALITY
Volume 25 ASIAN STUDIES
2005
Volume 26 EGYPTIAN STUDIES
2005
Volume 27 GLOBAL VISION: A SURVEY OF WORLD ART, Part 1
Africa, Oceania, Asia, & Modernism
2006
Volume 28 RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE STUDIES
2006
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
(Series 1 & series 2)
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EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE:
The Renaissance in Europe: an Overview, 2012
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NORTHERN RENAISSANCE:
The Female Nude in Early Flemish Painting 1964 (Columbia)
“Virgin & Child” by Dirk Bouts – A Masterpiece of the Flemish Renaissance, 1971
De Young Museum wall label for the new acquisition.
“Virgin & Child” by Dirk Bouts in
MOTHER & CHILD: 100 WORKS OF ART
WITH COMMENTARIES BY 106 DISTINGUSHED PEOPLE
Edited by Mary Lawrence, 1975
Among the other Renaissance commentaries in this book were essays by Kenneth Clark and Sir John Pope-Hennessy. With both of them FLG discussed Renaissance paintings and sculpture from time to time.
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Catalog Notes in
THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE:
A RECREATION OF THE URBINO STUDIOLO AROUND 1500, 2007
Exhibition catalog & study guide for FLG’s class RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART at CSUEB.
FLG also wrote all the catalog notes. World Art Press for the University Art Gallery, CSUEB
Pucelle HOURS OF JEANNE d’EVREUX c1325 MMA edition, NYC
[FLG COLLECTION]
Limbourg TRES RICHES HEURES c1416 Facsimile edition
[FLG COLLECTION]
Bouts VIRGIN & CHILD c1460 FAMSF edition, SF
Photos: van Eyck & van de Weyden
Durer, et. al NUREMBERG CHRONICLE 1493 Facsimile Edition
Durer EPIPHANY woodcut c1486-89 First Edition PAGE
[FLG COLLECTION]
Durer MELANCHOLIA I engraving 1514 Ex. Coll.: MMA, NYC
[FLG COLLECTION]
Prints of the Northern Renaissance, 2012
[FLG COLLECTION]
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ITALIAN RENAISSANCE:
Prints of the Italian Renaissance come to San Francisco 1973
This exhibition came from the National Gallery in Washington, DC. FLG published the San Francisco edition of the catalog with a frontispiece of “Apollo & Diana” by Jacopo de Barbari.
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LEONARDO STUDIES:
Leonardo’s Book Illustrations, 1961
Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man” & the Philosophy of the Golden Proportion, 1962
Leonardo’s Neo-Platonic Philosophy, 1963
Circles of Light: Leonardo’s Halo Symbolism, 1964
The Angel of the Rocks: A Study of the Iconography, 1964
The Beam-of-Light in Leonardo’s “Last Supper,” 1964
The Image of Evil in Leonardo’s “Last Supper,” 1964
The Death of Christ & of Socrates in Leonardo’s Drawings, 1964
Shamanic Symbolism in Leonardo’s Drawings, 1965
The Face of a Goddess: Leonardo’s Drawings for “Leda,” 1965
Leonardo’s Art in Early 17th century England: a Short History, 1966
Leonardo’s “St. John the Baptist” & King Charles I of England, 1966
Leonardo’s “Christ among the Doctors:” a Bibliography, 1973
Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa:” a Bibliography by Roy McMullen, 1975 [edited]
Where is Leonardo’s “Blessing Hand of Christ?” – a Bibliography, 1979
Leonardo & the Androgyne: a Study in Nonduality, 1980
The Wrists of Christ: An Analysis of the X-Rays of Leonardo’s “Christ among the Doctors (Harrington)” and the Symbolism of the Punctured Wrist, 1994
The Reunion of the Vitruvian Man (Leonardo) and the Venetian Genius (Giorgione): An Analysis of the Pigment Studies by Walter C. McCrone, 1994 [edited]
The Face of Christ: A Study of the Attribution & Chronology of Leonardo’s “Christ among the Doctors (Harrington),” 1994
Introduction to
LEONARDO’S LIGHT IN “THE LAST SUPPER”
and “CHRIST AMONG THE DOCTORS” –
The Story of an Unrecorded Canvas with an Analysis
of its Style, Physical Properties, and Metaphysical Symbolism,
Edited with an Essay by FLG
World Art Press for the Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, 1995
The Art & Philosophy of Leonardo da Vinci:
A Comprehensive Bibliography of Books
in LEONARDO’S LIGHT, 1995
Co-author of
“Christ among the Doctors” – A New Leonardo Painting?
in MICROSCOPE #44
edited by Walter C. McCrone, 1996
[a version of LEONARDO’S LIGHT]
Leonardo & the Golden Rectangle, 1996
An Analysis of the Attribution to Leonardo
Of “Christ among the Doctors (Harrington),” 1997
Co-author of
“Christ among the Doctors” – A New Leonardo Painting?
in FAKEBUSTERS:
SCIENTIFIC DETECTION OF FAKERY IN ART
Edited by Walter C. McCrone & Richard J. Weiss, 1999
[a version of LEONARDO’S LIGHT as previously edited for MICROSCOPE (1996) ]
DIVINA PROPORTIONE by Fra Pacioli and Leonardo de Vinci, 1509:
A Bibliographic Checklist of Facsimile Editions
Compiled in collaboration with Elena Lombardi, 2008
“Christ Reasoning with the Pharaises” after da Vinci (Luini), 2010
Engraving by Shenton 1840. Published by George Vertue
[FLG Collection]
Leonardo’s Platonic Polyhedrons
in LOOKING AT LEONARDO, 2011
(@WAP: Lecture/RENAISSANCE)
LOOKING AT LEONARDO: a Museum Studies Exhibition
with Books, Scale Models, Facsimile Drawings, and Websites
World Art Press for the Library of CSUEB, 2011
(@WAP: Lecture/RENAISSANCE)
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GIORGIONE STUDIES:
The Paintings of Giorgione: a Catalogue (1st draft), 1964
The Paintings of Giorgione: a Catalogue (2nd draft), 1969
The Paintings of Giorgione: a Catalogue (3rd draft), 2011
Portrait of a Man attributed to Giorgione: a Study of the Attribution, 1970
Report for the Kress Foundation
The Biography of Giorgione: a Bibliography, 1973
The Bibliography of Giorgione: a Historical Survey, 1973
The Hands of Giorgione: a Note on Consistent Features, 1987
Portrait of a Woman attributed to Giorgione: a Study of the Attribution,
1988. Report for the Norton Simon Foundation
Portrait of a Man attributed to Giorgione and/or Titian: a Study of the Attribution, 1988. Report for the Norton Simon Foundation
“Three Ages of Man” attributed to Giorgione: a Study of the Attribution, 1993
Report for Oglethorpe University
Girogione Paintings collected by Nicholas Lanier, 2011
The Signature of Giorgione: a Review of the Theories in
GIORGIONE & THE EXPERTS: A Documentary Exhibition of
THE THREE AGES OF MAN (MARCUS AURELIUS BETWEEN PHILOSOPHERS)
and The Process of Authentication
edited by FLG
World Art Press for the Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta,
1st ed. 1993; 2nd ed. 1994
Introduction to
GIORGIONE’S “THREE AGES OF MAN:” A CRITICAL STUDY
edited by FLG
World Art Press report for Oglethorpe University
Catalog Notes in
THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE:
A RECREATION OF THE URBINO STUDIOLO AROUND 1500, 2007
Exhibition catalog & study guide for FLG’s class RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART at CSUEB.
FLG also wrote all the catalog notes. World Art Press for the University Art Gallery, CSUEB
1 Duccio MADONNA & CHILD c1310 MMA edition, NYC
Photo: Giotto’s Madonna & Child
2 Angelico ANGEL, colored plaster c1450 Museum Store edition
Photos: Annunciation & Transfiguration
3 Piero DUKE & DUCHESS OF URBINO c1472 digital photos
Photo: Brera Altar & Ideal City
4 Giorgio URBINO STUDIOLO PANELS c1476-83 MMA edition, NYC
Photo: Duke in his Studiolo by Berruguete
5 Mantegna THE RISEN CHRIST engraving c1490 Ex Coll.: J. Stowe
Photo: Camera degli Sposi
6 Botticelli DIVINA COMMEDIA (c1480-95 / 1928) First Edition BOOK
Photo: Birth of Venus
[FLG COLLECTION]
7 Donatello DAVID c1435-40 1/4 size Bronze Edition
Photo: Mary Magdalene
[FLG COLLECTION]
8 Barbari PACIOLI PORTRAIT 1495 digital canvas
Photos: Golden Ratios in Art & Nature
9 Leonardo VITRUVIAN MAN c1490-95 digital photo
Photos: Diagram, Last Supper & Mona Lisa
10 Leonardo 5 PLATONIC POLYHEDRA 1490s
in Pacioli’s DIVINA PROPORTIONE, 1509 photos of illustrations
11 Unknown 5 PLATONIC POLYHEDRA modern 5 brass objects
12 Raphael SCHOOL OF ATHENS c1510-11
Photo & Atalay diagram
13 Bellini NUDE WOMAN WITH A MIRROR 1515 digital canvas
Photos:
Giorgione’s Venus &
Titian’s Venus of Urbino
14 Barbari APOLLO & DIANA engraving digital photo
Photos:
Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist;
Francis I as Mercury
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RENAISSANCE LECTURES at CSUEB, 2007
Of the 10 weekly lectures in his usual courses, most were spontaneous. Sometimes he wrote short essays to read in class in order to make concentrated points in a short time, and then distributed copies to those of his students who wanted them (which usually was a majority). What follows are those he composed for his Renaissance & Baroque course in 2007:
Pagan Metaphysics lecture #1: The Geneology of Botticelli’s “Venus” 2007
Pagan Metaphysics lecture #2: The Philosophical Venus 2007
Pagan Metaphysics lecture #3: Venus, Mars, & Wisdom 2007
Pagan Metaphysics lecture #4: The Mystic Union of Mars & Venus 2007
Christian Metaphysics lecture #1: The Crucifixion of Christ 2007
Christian Metaphysics lecture #2: Sophia – Holy Spirit 2007
Christian Metaphysics lecture #3: The Kingdom of God 2007
Christian Metaphysics lecture #4: Divine Light 2007
(All eight lectures available @WAP: Lectures/RENAISSANCE/cultural)
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RENAISSANCE STUDIES 2nd Series, 2007
THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE
A.1 The Spirit of the Renaissance: A Recreation of the Urbino Studiolo
around 1500 [catalog & study guide,15,000 words]
A.2 The Spirit of the Renaissance: Student Evaluations
THE STUDIOLO IN THE EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
B.1 The Studiolo in Early Renaissance Italy: a Study Guide
B.2 The Studioli & Library of the first Duke of Urbino
B.3 The first Duke of Urbino’s Taste in Painters
B.4 The Studiolo of Isabella d’Este in Mantua
B.5 The Studiolo of Alfonso d’Este in Ferrara
B.6 Furniture & Interior Design in Renaissance Italy
THE NEW PERSPECTIVE
C. The New Perspective: Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, & Piero
BOTTICELLI
D.1 Botticelli’s Pagan Iconography: a Bibliography
D.2 Botticelli’s “Venus:” Who? What? When? Where? Why? [lecture notes]
D.3 Botticelli’s “Mars & Venus:” an Alchemical Union? [lecture notes]
D.4 Botticelli’s “Divine Comedy:” an Annotated Bibliography
D.5 Botticelli & the Studiolo of Urbino: an Annotated Bibliography
D.6 Botticelli? “Portrait of a Goldsmith”- Reflections on Attribution (2nd ed.)
LEONARDO
E.1 Leonardo & his Paintings: Reflections on Attributions
E.2 Leonardo & Pacioli: A Partnership of Divine Proportions
E.3 Pacioli’s Divina Proportione: A Bibliography of Editions
E.4 Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man:” Reflections on Symbolism
E.5 Leonardo & Bramante: An Architectural Friendship?
E.6 Leonardo’s Architectural Plans & the Golden Ratio
E.7 Leonardo’s Allegory of the Wolf & the Eagle
E.8 Leonardo & The Da Vinci Code: Facts & Fictions
E.9 Leonardo & Alchemy: an Annotated Bibliography
E.10 Leonardo & Androgyny:
Sexuality and Enlightenment
in the Italian Renaissance
[book manuscript – DRAFT, 30,000 words]
THE GOLDEN RATIO
F.1 The Golden Ratio: A Concise Study Guide [A.2 Appendix]
F.2 The Golden Ratio in the Renaissance: a Visual Survey
F.3 The Golden Ratio: A Bibliography
RETURN OF EROS: BELLINI, GIORGIONE, TITIAN, & ARETINO
G.1 Investigating Bellini’s “Feast of the Gods”
G.2 Bellini’s “Nude Woman with a Mirror” & the Return of Eros
G.3 The Nudes of Giorgione and Titian & the Growth of Eros
G.4 Aretino, Guilio Romano, & the Eruption of Lust
BOUTS & THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
H.1 Northern Renaissance Madonnas:
The Iconography of Mother-Child Interactions
H.2 The San Francisco “Madonna” of Dirk Bouts: Attribution History
DURER
I.1 Durer’s “Epiphany” in The Nuremberg Chronicle: an Attribution
I.2 Durer’s “Soluna” in The Nuremberg Chronicle: an Attribution
I.3 Renaissance North & South: Pacioli, Barbari, Durer, & Raphael
I.4 Durer’s Visits to Italy
ALBERTI & BRAMANTE
J.1 Alberti & the Ancients: The Rebirth of Musical Proportions
J.3 Bramante in Urbino, Milan, & Rome
VERTU
K. “Virtu” – the Life of an Idea, during & after the Renaissance
POETRY & PROSE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
L.1 Poetry of the Italian Renaissance
L.2 Prose of the Italian Renaissance
COLLECTING ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
M.1 Nicholas Lanier & Early Stuart England
M.2 Artemesia Gentileschi
M.3 American Museum Collections
WUNDERKAMMERS
N. Wunderkammers/Cabinets of Wonders
BIBLIOGRAPHY
O. The Italian Renaissance: a General Bibliography
1. Introductory Surveys
2. Thematic Surveys
3. Urbino Surveys
4. The Renaissance of Mythological Painting
5. Archeology & Collecting Antiquities
6. Luca Pacioli:
A. General Bibliography.
B. The Barbari Portrait of Pacioli
7. Humanism
8. Neo-Platonism: Picino, Pico, & Perennial Philosophy
9. Biographical Sketches of Eminent Individuals
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“Christ Reasoning with the Pharaises” after da Vinci (Luini), 2010
(@WAP)
Engraving by Shenton 1840. Published by George Vertue
[FLG Collection]
Leonardo’s Platonic Polyhedrons
in LOOKING AT LEONARDO, 2011
(@WAP: Lecture/RENAISSANCE)
LOOKING AT LEONARDO:
a Museum Studies Exhibition
with Books, Scale Models, Facsimile Drawings, and Websites
World Art Press for the Library of CSUEB, 2011
(@ WAP: Lecture/RENAISSANCE)
Botticelli? “Portrait of a Goldsmith” – Reflections on Attribution, 2012, 3rd ed.
(@WAP: Lecture/RENAISSANCE)
Prints of the Southern Renaissance, 2012
(@WAP) [FLG COLLECTION]
Prints of the Baroque Era, 2012
(@WAP) [FLG COLLECTION]
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CULTURAL STUDIES
When most art historians use the word “modern” their reference is to a period between the middle of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th century. However, when social historians and cultural historians use the word “modern” they have a much larger frame of reference. They usually mean from the Renaissance to the 20th century, in other words, from the time when the ideals of the Middle Ages were replaced by those that most of modern people still live by artistically, socially, economically, and spiritually. When did the Renaissance begin? Literary historians usually say in the 14th century. Art historians usually say in the 15th century.
Italy is the 15th century was a patchwork of independent city-states. Among the most highly developed cultural centers in northern Italy were Florence, Sienna, Venice, Milan, Mantua, and Urbino. Urbino is the city that remains most like it was five centuries ago. The rulers of these centers had to deal with many problems: economic. military, etc. But most of them also were humanists. Inspired by the Greeks and Romans, they wanted the artists they patronized to harmonize Christian ideals with the ideals of the ancients. When the Dukes & Duchesses of these little nations wanted to get away from it all and read quietly or meditate on Platonic harmonies, they often did so in a small chamber called a studiolo. Here were housed their libraries and the finest of their paintings, sculptures, and other objects of vertu – objects of exceptional character, which stimulated them to be persons of exceptional character.
Frederico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1422-82), was an exceptional character. In between fighting the wars that kept his people safe, his legendary patronage extended to some of the greatest painters, architects, and philosophers of the age, figures such as Piero, Alberti, and Pacioli. Thanks to a book by Castiglione about life there, the court of Urbino was known throughout Europe as a place that understood the true meaning of artistic, social, and spiritual vertu. From this world came the profoundly beautiful art and architecture of Raphael and Bramante. We know more about the Urbino studiolo than we do about any other. That special space is our point-of-departure for this exhibition in which we suspend disbelief and pretend we are visiting the Duke’s little treasure chest of art, ideas, and values. This gallery is about the same size as the Urbino studiolo.
This exhibition is the first in a new series of small teaching exhibitions designed as interactive adjuncts to courses. The Satellite Gallery this time is a “display case” inside of which our students can see not slides but original objects and facsimiles of objects created in Italy and northern Europe between the 14th & early 16th centuries. Most of these works were owned or could have been owned by the Duke and his son.
Future exhibitions will be devoted to such themes as Shamanic Objects, Asian Sculpture, the Civil Rights Movement, and Postmodernism.
We are grateful to the Institute for Aesthetic Development in Brentwood, California, for the loan of these objects from its Teaching Collection of World Art, and for providing to our students with this illustrated study guide which reproduces the entire exhibition.
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RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE EXHIBITIONS curated by FLG:
BOTTICELLI’S ILLUSTRATIONS FOR DANTE 1963,
Phillips Collection Library, Washington, DC
THE FACE OF NICHOLAS LANIER: AN EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS 1964,
Columbia University, NYC
FLEMISH PAINTING, 15th through 17th CENTURIES, 1971,
de Young Museum, SF
THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE:
A New Gallery at the CPLH, 1974
THE FRENCH BAROQUE:
A New Gallery at the CPLH, 1974
FRENCH PAINTINGS, 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES FROM THE SIMON COLLECTION, 1973,
CPLH
“The Three Marys” by Rubens,
de Young, 1973
“Portrait of Titus” by Rembrandt,
de Young, 1973
“Still Life” by Zurburan,
de Young, 1973
FRENCH PAINTINGS, 19TH & 20TH CENTURIES FROM THE SIMON COLLECTION, 1975,
CPLH
GIORGIONE & THE EXPERTS,
Oglethorpe University Museum, 1993
LEONARDO’S LIGHT,
Museum of Fine Arts, Mobile, 1995
THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE, 2007
CSUEB Art Gallery, Hayward
LOOKING AT LEONARDO: a Museum Studies Exhibition, 2010
CSUEB Library, Hayward
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Volume 29 ROMANTICISM & SYMBOLISM STUDIES
2006
Volume 30 PRE-COLUMBIAN STUDIES
2007
Volume 31 GREEK & MINOAN STUDIES
2008
Volume 32 GLOBAL VISION: A SURVEY OF WORLD ART, Part 2
The Stone Age & the Pre-Columbian Americas
2008
Volume 33 SACRED WORLD ART
2008
Draft of Internet Course #5.
Volume 34 ART IN THE UNITED STATES
Paintings of the Hudson River School & American Transcendentalism
2009
A. ART IN THE UNITED STATES, COLONIAL TO MODERN (Transcript of the Internet Course) [90,000 words in 250 pages]
Click here to view this publication in PDF format
B. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING:
A Collection of Essays
1 Bibliography: The Hudson River School:A Short Chronology
2 The Landscape of God: Pictorial Transcendentalism in American Landscape Painting
3 Reflections on the Weight of Light: Luminism in 19th century American Painting
4 The American Sublime: Transcendental Landscape Painting from the Hudson River School to the New York School (Click here for complete text in PDF format)
5 The American Sublime: An Anthology of Readings
6 American Transcendentalism: A Bibliography
C. Dear Wanda: An Archive of Correspondence with Wanda Corn, Americanist (1963-2010)
Volume 35 GLOBAL VISION: A SURVEY OF WORLD ART, Part 3
The Bronze Age: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, & China
2010
Volume 36 Kent Cottage Exhibitions: An Illustrated Catalogue of Domestic Art from the collections of F. Lanier Graham on view in Kent Cottage
2010
1 The West Wing (Western Art, mainly Modern)
2 The East Wing (Eastern Art, mainly Buddhist)
3 Nike Sculpture: Catalogue of the F. Lanier Graham Collection
4 Visions of Victory: The Sculpted Nikes of Saint-Gaudens
5 Nike: Spirit of Victory An Exhibition of the Goddess, Ancient to Modern
6 “The Most Beautiful Books in the World” [* = facsimile editions]
Egyptian Book of the Dead*
IRISH MONKS, The Books of Kells*
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN, Scivias (1st edition)
JEAN PUCELLE, The Hours of Jean d’Evereux*
LIMBOURG BROTHERS, Les Tres Riches Heures*
BOTTICELLI, Dante’s Divine Comedy (1st edition)
BLAKE, Bryant’s Mythology (2nd edition)
BLAKE, Songs of Innocence*
BLAKE, Songs of Experience*
DORE, Milton’s Paradise Lost*
MANET, Poe’s Raven*
MATISSE, Mallarme*
ERNST, Une Semaine de Bonte (1st edition)
MIRO, A Toute Eprevue*
HAYTER, L’Apocalypse (1st edition)
CORNELL, Maria (1st edition)
ALECHINSKY, Communication (1st edition)
MoMA, In Memory of My Feelings (1st edition)
RAUSCHENBERG, Cardbirds (1st edition)
Volume 37a TRADITIONS & REVOLUTIONS, & AUTHENTICITY
2011
1 The WE of US: Reflections on the Mural Tradition from the Stone Age to Today [Remarks at the Dedication of a Mural in the Main Library of CSUEB]
2 EARLY MODERN SCULPTURE, from Rodin to Arp
3 EARLY MODERN SCULPTURE & The Authenticity Problem
a Degas & Fragile Waxes
b Rodin & Ugly Shoe Polish
c Brancusi & Posthumous Casts
d Arp & eBay Bargains
Volume 37b HOLOCAUST MUSEUMS: A Portfolio
2011