September 11, 2009 by Amy Elliott Bragg
Secret Velazquez
In yesterday’s New York Times: a painting long relegated to the “school of Velazquez,” with a deep-cleaning, turns out to be the work of the master himself.
Art conservation belongs, to me, in the same poetic category as wreck diving, digging up cities in the desert, recovering heisted jewels and putting together skeletons. In another life, I think I would be very happy as a conservator, but I fear it is a little too late in life to learn the trade, and also I have somewhat poor fine motor skills.
Fitch - November 26, 2019 @ 10:51 pm
As a practicing author, I have always adopted an instinctive logic it felt normal to
concentrate on the subject -> come up with ideas/answers -put it
. Yet, nothing could save me was writing about thermodynamics, by way of example,
which, as you can imagine, isn’t my principal field of experience.
Anyway, I took some Excellent tips from your writing style, thanks to this:slightly_smiling_face: