Lost in Translation

During a visit to the Freer Gallery of Art last year, I came across this 13th-century scroll painting that depicts the art of Chinese silkwe...

"Children at Play" Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, April 2010. Last year I saw this exhibition and I thought these paintings 齊白...

A holy child writes in a book in this detail from Bernhard Strigel's Saint Mary Salome and Her Family in the National Gallery of Art (c...

Painting of Pocahontas, after a Dutch engraving, National Portrait Gallery. Known by many names, this Native American woman supposedly saved...

Various items from churches and museums in London. This sign for the Chinese Church in London features a nicely stylized form of the Chin...

More linguistically-interesting things I saw in Paris. A monument to peace within view of the Eiffel Tower. I can't tell how well the ...

It's been months since I posted anything new here - much of the summer was spent away from DC. Just for fun, I'll be blogging about ...

It's the season of Advent for many folks I suppose a 15th-century Annunciation image is appropriate. Jan van Eyck adapts Luke 1:26-38 ...

Today I saw this sign outside the Rothko Room in the Phillips Collection . The sign says PLEASE LIMIT VISITORS TO THE ROTHKO ROOM TO EIGHT...

What does the voice of God look like? "The Baptism of Christ" (late 15th century, by the Master of the St. Bartholomew Altar) de...