Cocktails with a Curator: Veronese's "Wisdom and Strength"

[@lordtherapeutics]

A fabulous series and a wondrous episode, thank you.

[@ingridllinas5612]

Thanks to your courtesy. I did not have the opportunity to watch, neither tried my drink. So this is the day to listen to your description.

[@michaelcolborne2856]

I have visited the Frick a number of times and this is a painting that I would have passed by. Thank you, Xavier, for bringing it to life for me. On my next visit I will give it the attention it deserves. I look forward to these talks every week.

[@soniarupcic6719]

Hello Curators, I just wanted to say how grateful we are for these videos. My husband and I have an infant and have been quarantining pretty seriously since this all began -- your videos have been a lifeline. I don't usually write reviews but was moved to after reading some of yours. First, please don't change a thing! We love hearing about the cocktails, the art and the history. The balance is right. Second, thank you for reminding us that some of the most beautiful works of human ingenuity have their history in great inequality and oppression. This is always a necessary reminder. Many thanks for making our Fridays brighter!

[@faithfj]

Incredible work of art and incredible discussion. Thank you

[@jimfleckenstein4763]

Fascinating stuff! Could be that Xavier's "cocktails" and "travels" are the most rewarding and intriguing revelations of this COVID-19 nightmare. I do know that I can't wait to re-visit the masterpieces of the Frick Collection in light of this superb series!

[@ElizabethSwift]

Exactly. The Frick's KZbin has kept me entertained and enlightened.

[@randolphlearning5255]

Thank you curator. Great cocktail, painting, analysis, voice and enthusiasm. There is nothing like our amazing Western culture. Wisdom trumps all. Thanks for sharing Mr. Curator.

[@gustavderkits8433]

Thank you again. At the end of a “cocktails with a curator” I always feel a little bit more civilized that I was at the beginning, not merely because I have acquired some piece of knowledge but because I feel more connected to the broad history of humanity and happy to be so.

[@barbarajohnson1442]

Well said, thank you!

[@TheGaucha7]

Another wonderful time and great opportunity to expand our knowledge ! Grazie Mille!

[@Leebearify]

How wonderful, it was over so quickly. Thank you Dr. Salomon, as always it was educational, interesting and beautiful.

[@highseasailing8624]

Thank you , thank you! Just love this series! Perhaps one day... sigh... I can travel to the Frick from Sydney...

[@joycevisceglia6404]

Xavier, your presentations on various pieces in the Frick collection continue to transport me to a beautiful ethereal place. Much needed during these challenging times. Thank you Joyce Visceglia

[@Stephencorneli01]

Like all the ‘commentators,’ I’ve quickly come to look forward to ‘Friday at the Frick’ from here in England - visually gorgeous, insightful, technically seamless and a Negroni! No surprise that the collective consciousness around great art that we all recognise here has found a way out through the pandemic…..but how best can this wonderful moment be continued? Talking fun with friends over a relaxing drink, nothing better. Don’t stop!

[@ogieogie]

I love Mr Solomon's insights.

[@welshblush]

I deeply enjoy these! Thank you so much for these thoughtful and fascinating offerings. Stay well.

[@artist2739]

Love these talks!

[@richardschilling2414]

Fascinating! Another memorable episode that makes me just wish I could take the subway there again to see them in person.

[@kathrynmiele]

Love your Cocktails With A Curator series. Looking forward to visiting the Frick once the pandemic is over and I feel it is safe to get on an airplane again.

[@kurtk6592]

No better way to start the weekend!

[@Missymate]

Superb as always I really look forward to these.🥰🥰

[@juliettepasser2020]

Best time of Fridays! :>)

[@MrNikonova]

...Vanity of vanities, all is vanity and grasping for the wind... Thank you for the most beautiful allegory of divine wisdom accompanied with an equally beautiful story and a delicious coctail.

[@אסתיחן-צ9ו]

Thank you again Mr.Salomon, weekends are becoming great pleasure with you.

[@ariadne3838]

Thank you. I have a great memory of Venice. My mother and I celebrated the Feast of the Madonna della Salute. We walked across the Grand Canal on the pontoon bridge with all the Venetians. We had our candles and we were blessed.

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

Can't wait to visit the Frick...🍸's ..hopefully ...will be available in the new space...

[@myriamlambert801]

Thank your for this great episode. I do hope you will go on with your "Cocktails". Fantastic moments !!!

[@lucanardecchia2859]

Thank you Xavier for the best 20 minutes of Friday evenings. Saluti dall' Italia.

[@clivefelgate9802]

Thank you for another excellent "Cocktails" Your choice of subject could not be more timely. Wisdom conquering all. If only our Politicians could spend a few minutes considering that!! I look forward to a time when I can return to New York and wander through the Frick and be among old friends again. May you all keep safe and well.

[@donaldmangel4732]

Such an in-depth discussion on this Veronese’s Wisdom and Strength painting in 16 minutes! I can hardly wait for next week’s episode! Kudos to you Xavier!

[@susanprice7202]

Dallas, Texas here. Love these and look forward to them! Stay well everyone.

[@maomaoj]

Thank you very much, Mr Curator! Such a interesting and informative presentation. Hardly can wait for next week’s! I enjoy it very much

[@elizabethmilligan7173]

Hello from Virginia! my favorite Friday event!

[@catherinetriplett5584]

Thank you so interesting, delightful 20 minutes on a Friday! 😁

[@DavidSmith-ew2sn]

I never comment, but this episode was deeply inspiring. Xavier's image of Frick smoking a cigar while contemplating the resonance of Veronese's "Wisdom of Strength" is both personal and poignant.

[@dicty2]

Art, deep learning and a cocktail. Bravo...and Cin cin!

[@fabianfarbeyond558]

I hope to continue having a weekly cocktail with you. So informative and Interesting.

[@erickwilberding5786]

Erudite & thoughtful as always. What extraordinary paths the paintings took on their way to New York. Thank you.

[@dawnjackson1802]

Thank you for Veronese and explanation of wisdom. Elizabeth 🇨🇦

[@dr.nicholaswood4916]

Always interesting,entertaining and informative.The entire series has been spectacular.Very surprising More People have not engaged,although the Frick has always flown under the radar a little bit with the general Art viewing Public.Thank you Xavier!

[@rcatta]

Excellent. Thank you for making these available.

[@sandraeugeni7606]

Wonderful episode! Looking forward to enjoying the next one. Salute!

[@jeffhreid]

Splendid video! Beautiful paintings , fascinating stories, interesting cocktail. Very enjoyable

[@ancahammer3354]

Wonderful,as usual

[@jasaravi1]

thank you, xavier, from montevideo, uruguay.

[@ritabiro5105]

These are very beautiful paintings as well.you mentioned Odelscacy family es I know she was originally hungarian aristocracy I saw in a journal very fine lady and shows the wisdom in here feauture and elegancy and god taste.My first flight was to Prage but as I rememder l just visited the town a big chatedral a library and took part on concert and from there drowe me home a spanish lady.

[@lynnblack6493]

My favourite cocktail! And I had just opened and poured my NZ Oyster Bay rose. But all is well and I loved the lesson in allegory. I will be so ready for my first visit to NY, the Met and the Frick!

[@anjelash499]

Your lectures are always extremely interesting and your English and French (and of course Italian) are great!

[@laurensouthgate2458]

I always learn something interesting .I am enjoying cocktails with a curator i hope the drinks are good.

[@myrnaskertchly5483]

Amazing, a usual! Thank you for these wonderful talks, I look forward to the next episode

[@Rafabubor]

Greatest piece !!

[@mcoll6694]

Thank you, Xavier. This particular Veronese is a favorite painting of mine. I was unaware of Rudolph II's connection. Frick must have loved this connection I am sure.

[@MrCarolperroni]

Que maravilha! está aula fez meu dia muito melhor!

[@catherinetriplett5584]

Hey there! Charleston SC checking in!

[@roniquebreauxjordan1302]

Between this and the Botticelli exhibit a few years ago (livestreamed, too)..💛🌿❤ 🎨🎉

[@danielbuttafuoco7928]

Xavier, I am loving these presentations. Thank you so much for this informative and interesting exposition. I never had heard of the Iconologia by Cesare Ripa. I always wondered where the various artists had obtained such consistent allegorical figures. I would add that Ripa borrowed from the Scripture (Tanakh) in using a woman as the allegory of Wisdom (see Proverbs 1:20 et seq.) where "Wisdom" is personified as a woman crying out in the public square for people to heed her advice. Too bad Rudolf II didn't heed her!

[@celiabeadle2847]

Please do give us a talk on the Thomas Cromwell portrait to complement your excellent one on Thomas More. After their conflict in life, it is ironic that they are still facing each other but across a fireplace, centuries later.

[@Weesperbuurt]

Thank you so much for another fascinating talk. Thomas Hope was born in the Netherlands like his father and fled to London when Napoleon invaded the Netherlands. His English home Deepdene was in SURREY not Sussex and was demolished in 1969.

[@brianrichards7006]

Another great video on the Frick collection. These are really valuable, because, when I had art history, it was superficial, and heavily weighted towards post 1900 art. Here we receive the latest expertise into Veronese's works. I was intrigued by the four square Veronese paintings, and I am wondering, because they have these dull grey backgrounds (where in my opinion they would be greatly improved with blue sky and clouds) makes me wonder if they were commissioned to adhere to an interior color scheme.

[@robertforman4489]

Excellent, as always! Many thanks, Dr. Salomon. I wonder whether Vermeer was influenced by Veronese's Wisdom when painting his "Allegory of the Catholic Faith" as Veronese was by the Farnese Hercules. The posture of Faith is identical to that of Wisdom, eyes raised to heaven and foot on a globe. Has European allegorical painting become this canonical by the seventeenth century?

[@beverlyfletcher4458]

We are slowly losing all the knowledge which enables us to identify these references as children aren't being taught them. Yet another reason that these lectures are invaluable! thank you.

[@SexyBakanishi]

Wonderful! I look forward to next week. Maybe the idea of how the word vanity has changed over the years to give a clearer context - not merely an obsession with ones looks but the idea that the pursuit of all but wisdom would be in vain

[@davidc5191]

My favorite allegory of love is the painting by Bronzino.

[@janepanahy9370]

Agree 100 per cent with foregoing comment!

[@teeniebeenie8774]

fun!!!

[@Acquavallo]

What is the treatis of allegorical forms mentioned near the end?

[@judykendall3929]

What was the name of the treatise Xavier referenced in the presentation?

[@maryparker4099]

"Iconologia" by Cesare Ripa

[@BCBNYC]

Cesare Ripa's Iconologia.

[@judykendall3929]

Thank you!

[@judykendall3929]

@@maryparker4099 Thank you!

[@docmccoy95]

I wonder where their next stop will be?

[@pabloperezdors2878]

❤️👏🏼

[@ironhillroad]

I am increasingly curious about Frick the man. How did you become such a great art connoisseur? And how did you acquire the huge sums of money necessary to create his wonderful home? Would it be possible to do a “cocktails with a curator“ featuring his favorite cocktail and the story of his life? All the best, Richard Fried

[@lynnblack6493]

If you google Mr. Frick - what a story! Not just Frick but the whole sordid American steel industry 1900s. He was right in there...

[@ironhillroad]

Lynn Black Thank you

[@sethfleishman5346]

Ecclesiastes 9: 16 And I said, "Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded."

[@bahhumbug9824]

THAT'S probably what the cigar chomping Frick, the Emperor and all the other aristocrats were thinking when they saw the painting; ie. don't be poor. Get ALL the riches.

[@sethfleishman5346]

@@bahhumbug9824 You wear your name well.

[@Delk39507]

Mississippi getting a little culture!

[@williamwilliams5278]

Devine wisdom is also given a feminine persona in The Bible.

[@mcoll6694]

Sophia was very much part of Hellenistic and Jewish theology as well and early Christian orators like Paul adopted it. Cool stuff!

[@lucianavidal7144]

Is he in PJs?

[@bahhumbug9824]

So all you had to do was recognize "All is Vanity" and you understand the painting. So the man is Hercules, the child is Cupid. Can't the woman be Athena, goddess of, among other things, wisdom?

[@marianneclaude9157]

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[@mrHighLifex]

Oh no... Im at the strange part of youtube again..

[@tallskinnywhitelady]

paintings are better w/o cocktails. especially during a public health crisis.