30 Dec 2024

A Surprising Revelation of Divinity in Art

There are certain findings that should make all art lovers, including art scholars, think twice about whether we understand art. I have just published an in-depth article on how at least 49 Renaissance artists from all over Europe depicted themsel

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07 Nov 2024

Artists paint themselves as God. Why has no-one noticed?

For nearly twenty years EPPH has revealed that major art is categorically different from lesser art. They should not both be called “art”. Major art always looks inwards at the individual artist, an interior vision of their mind which accounts

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08 Nov 2010

The Reincarnation of Great Masters

Two recent entries, Manet's Croquet at Boulogne on the website and his Copy of Tintoretto's Self-Portrait posted on this blog, have both discussed the feeling, quite common among great artists, that they are reincarna

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05 Nov 2010

Manet as Tintoretto

A large number of Manet's early copies after other masters are either self-portraits or depictions of other artists. Art is often the apparent subject. One of his copies is Tintoretto's Self-Portrait (above), of which Carol Armstrong, a Manet sp

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