Comments on: Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella

By: arttrav

arttrav — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:00 +0000

You are right, John, I had corrected one reference and missed another. Nonetheless, if you find a person’s blog, written in their spare time, to be useful enough to return to it six months later, a nicer tone of voice would be appreciated, for a typo is not a blunder.
I am a professional writer and art historian, but I do this for my own pleasure and to help other people. I field comments and questions from mobile devices and don’t always have time or access to the internet in order to fix mistakes on the fly.

By: Squeak

Squeak — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:49:00 +0000

. . . and six months later the St Augustine blunder is still there!

By: arttrav

arttrav — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:57:00 +0000

Dear Dr. Walford
You are absolutely right, that is a really bad typo/slip – of course it’s Aquinas and not Augustine. I shall fix the text.
It’s great to know that after all these years people are still finding and using this article (wouldn’t want there to also be a grave error in there, who knows what students have written based on that…)
Alexandra

By: E. John Walford

E. John Walford — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:14:00 +0000

I enjoyed the materials assembled here, and commend you for them. As a Professor of Art History, also knowledgeable in Church History, I should point out though that it is the Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, not St. Augustine, as you state, that is the subject of one of the main frescoes in the “Spanish Chapel.” (Augustine lived long before the Dominican order came into being, whereas Aquinas was a Dominican priest).

By: arttrav

arttrav — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:44:23 +0000

Thanks Robert. It'd be great to get this comment on one of my articles about Slow Art, like this one: http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/allthingstuscan...
Are you participating in Slow Art day today (April 17 2010)? There are cities around the world involved!

By: robertseviour

robertseviour — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:27:08 +0000

I agree entirely with the page heading – Slow Art, and in fact I have been advocating this principle to any one who will listen for some time. I came to this idea as a result of the fatigue I always felt when going around a large exhibition. Now one room is plenty and I much prefer to analyse what I'm seeing in one picture rather than make a tally of the numbers of them that I have done little more than walk past.

By: brenda

brenda — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:14:31 +0000

Thanks for uploading these wonderful photos. They really helped me understand the spatial qualities of the chapel. (i’m writing a essay for my architecture course on Santa Maria Novella)

By: religious statues

religious statues — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:42:44 +0000

religious statues…

Great info. Thank you…