Confronting Anachronism: A Report From The Met’s Chroma Show

Daniel A. Rabuzzi — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:00:00 +0000

All photos by Daniel A. Rabuzzi Last month, with two fellow artists, I visited The Metropolitan Museum’s widely discussed Chroma: Ancient Sculpture In Color exhibition in New York City. Other visitors have described the show (see, for instance, here, here, and here), which is a collaboration with German researchers Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann and Dr.…

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Delightful Deception

Daniel A. Rabuzzi — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Let’s consider Vase of Flowers in a Window by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, a classic Dutch still life, reproduced above. He has, in exquisite detail, rendered the likeness of some dozen flower species (he apparently knew several botanists where he worked in the Netherlands). At first glance, you might well think you are looking at…

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Confronting Anachronism: A Report From The Met’s Chroma Show

Delightful Deception