This is made from marble. I was fascinated by it the first time I saw a photograph of it. I think it is perfect. I absolutely ran to it in the Museum. I think there is hardly a day goes by that I don’t look at it. I took around 125 photos of it because I wanted you to see it as I did

Sir Roger Scruton is probably the most important philosopher for me personally.

I think he has a great deal of intuition and it comes from his common sense, common man approach. In his documentary..

“The great artists of the past were aware that human life was full of chaos and suffering, but they had a remedy out of this situation and it was called beauty. “ Lampposts tell you how people feel about the architecture. This is a line by Roger Scruton in his...

Often I am told that beauty is subjective. I always reply that, no, beauty is Objective. The most often cited rebuttal is the quote, "Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder." This is true, and not depending on the context. If you are looking at two beautiful objects,...

I was driving through North Carolina last year and saw a church with a large graveyard. It is a brick building, and set under a canopy of giant trees. I stopped and took a photo of the sign, and then went on my way thinking to do a little research later. What I...

Among the treasures within the walls of the Borghese Gallery is a masterpiece by Antonio Canova called Venus Victrix. The statue is made of white marble, and is surrounded by remarkable treasures of the Borghese. The statue itself is certainly a masterpiece and Canova…