We all know the term “Renaissance” is a problematic slippery slope, but the National’s Renaissance Faces exhibition ends on January 18th and it’s worth a trip down town. Don’t expect this exhibition to take you very far temporally (it ends somewhere in the early seventeenth century) but it’s certainly breathtaking to see the sublimity of these legacies up close. My favorite is Lomardo’s “A Young Couple” (Bacchus and Ariadne) crafted between 1505 and 1510. Those curls are so beautiful in the flesh. Hold tight Greena for coming with me.
