Monuments

art + history = biography + identity.

This blog focuses on portraiture

How we see ourselves and how we look at others.

Collective Mourning, Powerfully Shown

I've written before about secular pilgrimage and in particular the idea of "communitas," whereby people gather together to remember past...

Is this the Ugliest Sculpture in London?

How a sculpture from 18th-century Britain led to a history of American Political Satire The story of the infant Hercules derived from...