Lance Esplund, Art Critic, Wall Street Journal

 Artists are poets. Working metaphorically, artists transform their experience. Through close looking and comparisons among ancient, modern, and contemporary artworks, we will explore how art is in dialogue with art. We will begin to think like artists.

The Crucifixion, With the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning (c. 1460-64). Rogier van der Weyden, Philadelphia Museum of Art.