by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 28, 2015 | Art History
Another First Time with Walk the Arts A few weeks ago, we did a short clip on the hardly ever featured back of the famous sculpture Dying Niobid at the Palazzo Massimo, offering all art history students and everyone on the Internet the opportunity to see it for the...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jul 22, 2015 | Art | Religion | Theory
Returning from Studio Italia Just arriving from Rome and Florence with a group of young American students from California. After our visits to the Uffizi, Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella, did anyone faint? No! Did anyone have tachycardia? No! Any confusion? No! In...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 27, 2015 | Inspiration |Thoughts
Studio Italia as an elective university course During our recent workshop in Tuscany we were delighted to have among our participants, Elizabeth Chan, a medical student from the National University of Singapore, who obtained approval to register for Studio Italia as a...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | Jun 13, 2015 | Art History, General
A Première on the Internet Every year, during my Survey I Art history class I devote a week to Greek Art. One of the slide is of course The Dying Niobid a beautiful Greek classical sculpture done around 440 B.C.E. This is the usual slide that all the art history...
by Yves M. Larocque (Ph.D.) | May 31, 2015 | Art History, General, Inspiration |Thoughts
Art: “navel-gazerism” of the G20 countries The college Winter semester is over in North America. My corrections are done. I would like to share with you all one of the questions of my Canadian Art History exam. In a nutshell, the students had to compare Canada’s...
