The Nativity of Jesus is drawn from accounts of Christ’s birth in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. Following the Annunciation, Mary tells Joseph that she is with child and goes to visit her relative, Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John…
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art Noah Charney and Ingrid Rowland
W. W. Norton & Company (2017)
Wise Words
"In every group of travelers, every bunch of tourists in a bus, there is at least one man who insists on pointing out to the others the beauty or interest of things they encounter, even though the others can see the things, too: we are that man, I am afraid, au fond." — Michael Baxandall