Posts Tagged ‘El Greco’
Soundtrack to my life
By Wendy I saw the same North Carolina Symphony performance twice last week. Not something I normally do. Both times, I had the weird sensation that composer Stephen Jaffe wrote his commissioned piece “Cithera mea (Evocations)” just for me. His music was inspired by “El Greco to Velázquez,” a project that has [...]
Spanish Art and Wine Authorities
By Jonathan Blackwell I arrived with Michael Klinger of Chapel Hill Wine Co. and the lovely Jamie Peele on Friday September 5th to a packed store at Wine Authorities. We were there for the Spanish wine tasting in conjunction with the Spanish art of El Greco to Velazquez at the [...]
Spanish Wine Goes Well with Spanish Art
By Wendy As Hurricane Hanna loomed on Friday night, I ignored the weather warnings along with about 40 other people to check out my first wine tasting class at Wine Authorities. Wine Authorities has been open for a year in Durham and is now famous for the “Enomatic” wine dispenser and [...]
The Mystery of the Leopard
By Wendy Hower Livingston What is the meaning of the leopard in Francisco Ribalta’s painting, “Saint Francis Embracing the Crucified Christ”? The huge animal, wearing a golden crown, lies completely subdued, its cheek pressed under the bare foot of Saint Francis, who embraces a suffering Christ on the cross. You [...]
Not Klinger’s Toledo
By Wendy Hower Livingston Maybe because I am a big fan of Klinger on the old TV show M*A*S*H (whose home town is Toledo, Ohio), I expected the medieval town of Toledo, Spain, to be similarly urban and gritty. Not so. This is the town where El Greco lived, high [...]
A Journey to Spain Begins
On Sunday, May 25, a crew from UNC-TV will arrive in Spain to begin filming a 30-minute documentary about the upcoming exhibition, “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” The idea is to follow the footsteps of Sarah Schroth, the Nancy Hanks Senior Curator at the [...]
El Greco to Velázquez site goes live.
We’re pleased to share with you a new site we’ve developed for our upcoming exhibition “El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III.” The show opens August 21, 2008 and will run to November 9, 2008. Tickets will go on sale on June 1. check it out