In early September I had the pleasure of attending Professor Rebekah Compton’s lecture entitled “The Glory of Color: Pigments in Early Florentine Altarpieces” in the College of Charleston’s Simons Center for the Arts. By using Giovanni Dal Ponte’s Madonna and Child Enthroned as a means to introduce the subject and as a central point of […]
The Cultural Significance of Color: Absorbing Professor Compton’s Lecture on Early Florentine Altarpieces