Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Italian (1485/90?-1576)
Venus and Adonis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
As an auto-didact in art history for over a decade, I have obsessively photographed tens of thousands of the finest artworks housed in world-class museums. In my countless forays, I've seen reappearances or flashbacks of dozens, perhaps hundreds of masterpieces in one museum's permanent collection that I had previously seen in the troves of other museums. Duplicates, or sometimes half a dozen or more similar if not identical paintings and sculptures. These eerie experiences had initially perplexed me and even triggered spells of self-doubt, wavering if I truly saw what I believed I did.
The explanation behind this is as simple as the climactic insight of the little princess in that children's story Many Moons: the masters, or artists in general for that matter, have often created several studies and versions of their famous oeuvres, that possess the mystique of being one of a kind.
So, as a testament to the proverbial "practice makes perfect", I share my discoveries in this new series I call Deja Vu.
Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Italian (1485/90?-1576)
Venus and Adonis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
As an auto-didact in art history for over a decade, I have obsessively photographed tens of thousands of the finest artworks housed in world-class museums. In my countless forays, I've seen reappearances or flashbacks of dozens, perhaps hundreds of masterpieces in one museum's permanent collection that I had previously seen in the troves of other museums. Duplicates, or sometimes half a dozen or more similar if not identical paintings and sculptures. These eerie experiences had initially perplexed me and even triggered spells of self-doubt, wavering if I truly saw what I believed I did.
The explanation behind this is as simple as the climactic insight of the little princess in that children's story Many Moons: the masters, or artists in general for that matter, have often created several studies and versions of their famous oeuvres, that possess the mystique of being one of a kind.
So, as a testament to the proverbial "practice makes perfect", I share my discoveries in this new series I call Deja Vu.