Zuloaga & Falcone

Here are two anchorites – hermits, that is, of painters in Spain and Italy. “The Anchorite” of Zuloaga (left) seems entirely 17th century El G...

Emerson’s good-bye

Society seems to pursue a biological imperative. People follow a track of survival and socialization that mimics basic animal instincts to reproduce themselves,...

Holy hermits

With Jan Van Eyck, we are on more conventional territory than the mad Heironymous Bosch in the portrait of hermits (see previous post). Bosch was engulfed in a ...