Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Four Cats Visit the Sites of Duccio's Maesta Altarpiece


This is a set of small canvases that started a series in which the settings of old paintings or prints, mostly Italian Renaissance, were stripped of their figures, and other people, or in this case cats, enter the spaces to look around like tourists visiting an alternate universe.  In this case, the four cats visit the place of the washing of the feet (upper left), the site of the denial of Peter (upper right), the appearance before Pilate (lower left), and in the lower right, Four Cats Eat up the Leftovers at the Last Supper.  They were painted many years ago and several years have passed since the last of the cats died in extreme old age. Tempus fugit and I am not getting things done.  I work constantly, but the fall semester is always a challenge.  This is a brief break and a bit of whimsy to keep the blog alive.  

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