Rome feels like the center of the world, like a gravity spot pulling the world into it. Surrounded by ochre, peppered grays, soft brownish stone, alabasters, deep dusty rose colors. Stunning! Alitalia left our bags in Paris, the cell phone won't work, and the computer is fritzed and we can't send e-mails. The apartment is wonderful, much more spacious than I thought, internet cafe within steps away. Our grocery market is in the square with the Pantheon! We're blocks from the Tiber River, about a half hour by foot to the Vatican and the Spanish Steps. We live on the second floor of a Ghetto building, off a narrow cobblestone alleyway. Wonderful, tall windows, tiled floors, sort of 50s deco wooden design details. Very high ceilings with wooden rafters. (The camera is in a missing bag so I can't show you.) The Ghetto is sort of the "Village" of Rome, teeming with artists and young professionals and loud scooters buzzing about. It's just a dream location. I'm on rented minutes here, so I'm dashing this off quickly. Note to family & friends: the cell phone is coming as soon as we figure out how to make e-mails fly again! Love to all.
About Loving Art Partnerships
PROJECT PARTNERS
LOVING ART AFFILIATIONS
Art Lovers in Paris
GREAT MUSEUMS
- Guggenheim Museum
- Harn Museum of Art
- Hofstra University Museum
- Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
- Los Angeles County Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Musee de Louvre
- Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art
- National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Ringling Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Art
- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum
- The Frick Collection
- The Getty
- The Leepa-Rattner Museum
- The Uffizi Galleries
- Vero Beach Museum of Art
Loving art is loving Rome
AAM
Comments from Arthur Blumenthal's Student:
- "Just a note to express to you my sheer pleasure for your inspiring class ... I have been awed and changed by it! Not only do I "see" art in a richer, fuller way, but the class allowed me to validate my own impressions. Having to verbally express my reaction to a work of art engaged all my sensibilities. Thank you for transporting me from a viewer to one who "owns" Massimo Stanzione's painting of "Rest on the Flight into Egypt." You taught me to go beyond seeing to "entering" (internalizing) a masterpiece and experiencing its energy and deeper dimensions."
Arthur in the Louvre
A PURYEAR SCULPTURE DAZZLES KÄREN
ART BOOK KEEPERS
Harold Koda: Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Thomas F. Mathews: Holy Image, Hallowed Ground (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Michael Kimmelman: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
ARTHUR CELEBRATES THE MoMA'S PURYEAR SHOW
FRANCESCO DE MURA
Photo Albums
March 2023
ART AND BEAUTY
- "For they (art and beauty) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited." C. S. Lewis
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The colors of Rome are what struck me most on my first trip. You capture the palette beautifully with what you write. I'm sure it hasn't changed from when I first saw it and won't for a long time...
Posted by: Shawn McNalis | April 02, 2007 at 03:55 PM
Re: missing luggage. If you two need anything FedEx'd over, let me know.
Love-kimberly
Posted by: kimberly Sheppard | March 24, 2007 at 02:31 PM