Category: art
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Once again I pretend to be an artist
Since there’s no church for me to visit for any of today’s saints, I decided I’d do the art thing and draw one of the saints. Looking through my Penguin Dictionary of the Saints, I found Saint Desiderius of Vienne who had a really rough time of things: he was rebuked by the pope for…
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I pretended to be an artist today
The Art Institute of Chicago had a workshop on monotype prints and feeling adventurous, I decided I would go to it since I had the afternoon free. The workshop began by a visit to a monotype by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione from somewhere in the neighborhood of 1640. Castiglione created the print by filling his copper…