Tag: Armin Kunz

Museum Exhibitions

Armin Kunz: Presentism and art history

Contributed by Armin Kunz / �Can we ever look at Titian�s paintings the same way again?� asked Holland Cotter when he reviewed the reunion of the master�s Poesie paintings at Boston�s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the New York Times back in August 2021. The show, which was on view […]

Prints

Piranesi and the anxiety of modernity

Contributed by Armin Kunz / Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720�1778) created innumerable views of ancient and modern (that is, Baroque) Rome that together formed his monumental print cycles �Antichit� Romane� and �Vedute di Roma.� They established his fame and lured generations of travelers to the Eternal City. Today, however, he is […]