A few days ago, one of my students asked me if I had posted anything new to my blog lately. My answer was no, I hadn’t, because my 50th entry, written back in July, seemed like a good place to end. But these words were scarcely out of my...
For the couple of years before his death, Edouard Manet, contemporary of the French Impressionists & painter of the controversial Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), was forced by the exigencies of a worsening illness to leave his beloved...
