Cocktails with a Curator: Tiepolo's "Perseus and Andromeda"

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FEATURED COCKTAIL: Milanese Gin and Tonic(dry gin, red Campari, tonic water); the mocktail is blood orange juice and tonic water. For the complete recipes, visit www.frick.org/cocktails-curator.

[@paradoxicalcanons]

How handy that I just happen to have all three ingredients on hand. Serendipity.

[@GLBinNP]

I love art history, and I love the generosity shown in posting these videos. At the same time, something that frustrates me is when art historians describe images inaccurately. In this image I see that only one of Andromeda's ankles is shackled, and yet in this video we are told that she has "shackles and chains still attached to her wrists and ankles" - ankles, plural, which is wrong. Plus we can only see one of her wrists. This bewilders me. It seems like the opposite of an invitation to look closely at a work of art. I remember seeing the same thing when I read Irwin Panofsky inaccurately describing an image of St Jerome. He said Saint Jerome had his hand on the lion's head, when St Jerome's hand was actually next to the lion's head in the image being described. It seems to me that this often happens with art historians. I really find it bewildering.

[@garystanley2530]

Thanks to you, Xavier, and your colleagues at The Frick for this wonderful series! So informative and uplifting in these difficult times.

[@dawnjackson1802]

Dr. Solomon! The Burlington Magazine offered your excellent article on Goya published in 2015 today. You are the brightest light in my pandemic experience, thank you! Elizabeth in Victoria, Canada 🇨🇦

[@davidc5191]

The most amazing Tiepolo I've seen is the huge ceiling frescoe at the Wurzburg Residenz, which survived WWII bombings unlike the Milan palace. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area and want to see a full-scale Tiepolo frescoe, painted about a decade after the one destroyed in Milan. Plus you get to see the baroque architect Balthasar Neumann's famous staircase at the Residenz.

[@ritabiro5105]

Mrr.Salamon tThiepolo and Archintos art is nowdays hopfully enjouyable and the spirit of the artits are shining from the sky god showing again something beautiful of worrks and eternity.

[@bhavanichandramouli2197]

A highlight of my week! Many thanks!

[@mscp320]

I look forward to your presentation each week. You are the best!

[@jennyknepper]

Before COVID, I had no idea this collection existed, but I’m now a devoted fan, with thanks to this series. I’m not sure if I’ll ever see it in real life, but I know that I’ll certainly try!

[@ГалинаЛатыповнаДоскожина]

The Frick collection - wisteria-sense of hope!!!

[@RafaelERuiz-cz2xi]

How wonderful that we can get an idea of ​​the lost frescoes work, through the preserved sketches .. A virtuoso of foreshortenings!

[@melitathorpe8982]

Hello from San Jose, CA. Anxiously waiting for the day to visit The Frick again.

[@warrenkundis3289]

Thank you again Xavier, the Tiepolo reminds me that I still have a Tiepolo etching stored in Honolulu. Hope to see the Frick again one day.

[@lyudmilagrigoryeva4682]

Thanks a lot , Mr Salomon! You urge to learn mush about history and art. All your stories are so captivated and motivated. I wish all curators from all musieums had such understandable speech as yours to give us opportunity to listen to art stories. It is so important in this time of quarantine.

[@palmamingozzi5736]

What a lovely little masterpiece.

[@carlaroberts4969]

Thank you.

[@bobnewmanknott3433]

As always entertaining and informative thank you so much , but where is the charming Ms. Ng we don't see enough of her .

[@highseasailing8624]

Can’t wait!

[@luciemedici]

Xavier is fantastic 😊

[@gudrunneumann2934]

Hello from Kansas City!

[@deanedge5988]

Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso is a wonderful book.

[@lucanardecchia2859]

👍

[@MrZohreh100]

Hi from Newport

[@robertalevenson7311]

Greetings and thanks from Lockdown London

[@perseus8890]

There’s Rumors that Perseus is already here🤫

[@megenberg8]

the wisteria survived the bombing? really?!!

[@EricaNernie]

What awful devastation from the Allied bombings. Yet the Germans didn't bomb St Paul's Cathedral in London or Buckingham Palace...

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

Dr. Solomon At Home contemplating the spiritual and actual home of the rise of Facism

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

And perhaps if the Italians had not supported Hitler and handed over their Jews some of whose families went back a,thousand years, the Allies might not have had to do as much bombing.

[@JTonson]

@@LindaLinda80Linda I am British and I love Tiepolo more than any almost other artist, but let's not forget that the reason the Royal Air Force was bombing Italy was because Mussolini supported Hitler's aim to turn Europe into a Fascist superstate. I value freedom.

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

@@JTonson Agreed. I believe that is what I said.

[@juegangermanface7498]

haphazard and boring...

[@janbrictson7670]

Hello from Denver!