\nFirst, I’d like to call your attention to this month’s sidebar commentary.
\nI’m sponsoring a very special charity project. I’m sure you’ll
\nall agree that it’s a worthy cause. Check it out… and give, give, give!\n<\/p>\n
\nLast night Nancy, Randy, Shauna, and I went to a \nIncidentally, while I was looking for Lippi biographies to put on the site, one of the \nIn Other News: This morning I was listening to …one of the biographies I ran across had this amusing statement near the bottom: “His pupils were far inferior to him.” Ummm, really? Inferior like, say, Botticelli?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBill Fredlund<\/a> lecture on “Fra”
\nFilippo Lippi<\/a>, an influential
\npainter in early 15c Florence. (I use “Fra” in quotes because
\nas it turns out, Brother Lippi did not exactly turn out to be the best “Fra”,
\nas his wife the ex-nun might attest.) It was a good Bill-lecture, although
\nat just over an hour, it was a bit short. Also, while some of Lippi’s paintings were
\nbreathtaking, he had the same “misshapen baby” problem that all his contemporaries
\nstruggled with. Perhaps there was some tradition or taboo in Renaissance Italy
\nwhere adult males were not permitted to see infants? I can’t explain it otherwise.\n<\/p>\n
\nbiographies<\/a>
\nI ran across had this amusing statement near the bottom:
\n“His pupils were far inferior to him.” Ummm, really? Inferior like, say, Botticelli?
\nOh, well. I only mention this to remind you all that I scruplously<\/em> check
\nall links on this site for quality. Rest assured, a goer.org link is a
\nmark of taste, erudition, and 100% quality, guaranteed. You’re welcome.\n<\/p>\n
\nWait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!<\/a>
\non the radio today, and guess who they had as a guest? That’s right,
\nPetra Verkaik<\/a> (warning: link unsuitable
\nfor children)<\/span>, perhaps better known as the
\nPlayboy Playmate who took 17-year-old Toby Hocking to his Winter Formal dance
\n(as I mentioned earlier<\/a>).
\nCoincidentally, NPR is doing another Pledge Week right now. Can you think of
\na better reason to support National Public Radio? Neither can I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"