Fontana Mix for late February

Fontana Mix is a semi-regular column that is made up of tid bits and miscellaneous ephemera that by itself is more than a tweet, but less than a whole blog post. I’m sure you know where the title comes from, so I wont bother to explain.
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Fontana Mix for February 2012

Fontana Mix is a semi-regular column that is made up of tid bits and miscellaneous ephemera that by itself is more than a tweet, but less than a whole blog post. I’m sure you know where the title comes from so I wont bother to explain.
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Fontana Mix for Mid November

“Salvator Mundi” is the story that been on my mind the most this month – It’s about all I’m really interested in right now (I’m not even going to start on the “La Bella Princepessa” story nor the search for the “Battle of Anghiari”). It’s been an incredible year for Leonardo historians. Here’s a few links to share the wealth. Three Pipe Problem has a summary of iconographic and provenance details Here is a great video from CNN (I’m pretty

Fontana Mix for May 2011

Calvin and Hobbes” Creator Returns With Painting: Sixteen years after ending his comic strip, saying he had “done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels”. Bill Watterson has debuted his first artwork since that time, a painting of Richard Thompson‘s character Petey Otterloop. Being sold to benefit the Parkinsons charity Team Cul de Sac (Thompson suffers from Parkinsons). It’s pictured above. Massive Statue Found in Egypt: A nearly 43-foot likeness of Amenhotep II, grandfather