Category Archives: Sandro Botticelli

MARTIAN WAKEUP CALL

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Veronica Knox

The sleeping Mars from ‘VENUS & MARS’ – SANDRO BOTTICELLI What do we actually know about Sandro Botticelli? What can we possibly know?  These are two different questions, and we can only answer the latter – the educated guess being … Continue reading →

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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Veronica Knox

Be it an iconic image, a true representation, or a ‘tronie’, a face belies a thousand secrets A TRONIE: a face created from memory or a consummate sketch of several people and costumes that ‘stand in’ for no ‘one’ in … Continue reading →

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PITCHING ON A STORMY SEA

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Veronica Knox

The concept you pitch could turn out to be the story that cannot be named! I’m an indie author. And one thing I’ve learned, after pitching directly to agents at a writers conference, is that beauty is in the eye … Continue reading →

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WONDROUS & DISASTROUS

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Veronica Knox

APRIL 15 – A DAY TO REMEMBER Leonardo da Vinci was born – April 15, 1452         HMS Titanic sank – April 15, 1912 It’s uncanny that these are both subjects about which I’m most passionate. I … Continue reading →

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WHERE WERE YOU?

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Veronica Knox

If meditation is time travel, then I have been there with Leonardo and Sandro and Lisa. I brushed against their cloaks of country-rough sackcloth or city-thick velvet trimmed in fur, and run my fingers over the heavy embroidered stuff of … Continue reading →

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The first cellular phone?

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Veronica Knox

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN I see an angel reading a text message. This painting, Tobias and the Angel (c. 1467) from the studio of Andrea Verrocchio, is considered to contain three of the earliest instances of painting by Leonardo … Continue reading →

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THE TALE OF A DEADLY GRAPE-HEAD CLUSTER

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Veronica Knox

 When art shouldn’t imitate art – a brief history of the ‘art’ of story… or lack thereof In art history 101, I learned the terms ‘grape-head cluster’ and the ‘archaic smile’. Art history 201 introduced me to ‘warts and all’ realism… … Continue reading →

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LOVE POETRY BEYOND THE GRAVE

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Veronica Knox

Fiction glorifies the art of paranormal romance,  reincarnation, and eternal bliss   Two Dantes say so: “I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing … Continue reading →

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The Art of Time Travel

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Veronica Knox

                  Traveling back in time to rescue lost art, interact with artists, and be a fly on the wall in the fifteenth-century has been the premise of most of my books starring … Continue reading →

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He’s no oil painting!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Veronica Knox

If burning books is bad consider this control freak… Florence, Feb 7-1497 Girolamo Savonarola was the mastermind (I use the term loosely) behind the burning of several of Sandro Botticelli’s paintings, and other works of a pagan theme. Only religious … Continue reading →

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