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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Venice Connection

“-last words about painting, age 78… I think I’m beginning to learn something about it.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir Today is Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s birthday, which makes it the 178th year since his birth on February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. We know Renoir for being a foremost painter in the development of the Impressionist style, butContinue reading “Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Venice Connection”

A Building Transformed

A building is defined as a structure with a roof and walls. This simple description holds the complexities of our world. We live, learn, play and work in buildings They are a construct of humanity’s need to seek shelter and safety, a place to call home, raise children, create memories, build community. Schools, stores,Continue reading “A Building Transformed”

We Shape Our Cities

Winston Churchill once said “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” Every city has a story that encompasses all the memories of the people who lived in their “hometown.” Even in our world where people move from city to city, there is an emotional attachment to a location where we have resided, evenContinue reading “We Shape Our Cities”

Happy New Year

My dear friends, All the very best of a fresh New Year to you, your family and friends. May you find many adventures in the books you read, the music you play, the poetry you recite and the miles you travel. I am glad that we are sharing the path together. Happy New YearContinue reading “Happy New Year”

Happy Birthday, Leonardo da Vinci

April 15th marks the birth of Leonardo da Vinci. Historians and scholars have given him the title, Renaissance Man, because of his breadth and depth of knowledge from architecture to paleontology, botany to engineering, geology to astronomy, and much more. Many have written about his brilliance, but what I find most remarkable is his humanity. Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Leonardo da Vinci”

Paris 1907

“Paris is always a good idea.” Audrey Hepburn In my early 20’s, I imagined traveling to Paris to enroll in an art history course. Audrey Hepburn’s portrayal in the 1954 film, Sabrina may have had a strong influence given her astonishing transformation when she studied at a prestigious culinary school in Paris. From heartbreak to eleganceContinue reading “Paris 1907”