Arthur Blumenthal, Ph.D., an international museum consultant and Renaissance scholar, and his wife, artist/writer Kären Love Blumenthal, have a passion for art. Through workshops and trips, they teach students the joys of "slow looking," a technique they developed for art viewing. Their firm, Loving Art Partnerships, offers a range of art consulting services and they lead art workshops in Rome, Naples, Florence, Paris, Spain, and the Netherlands. Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Florida Art Museum Directors Association and named "Orlando's Best Museum Director" on three occasions, Arthur is the director emeritus of the Rollins Museum of Art at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and served as Guest Curator for "In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura" an historic exhibition organized by RMA that traveled in the U.S. Kären Blumenthal is a visual artist and writer influenced by the Italian Baroque painters. She is represented by Fine Arts 807 Gallery and works in imported inks on paper. She is also working on a television series about famous art masterpieces now in development.
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