“Anyone, however, who considered only his lengthy contemplation of things might easily have judged him to be slow and lacking a natural gift, but when he was resolved in his mind and his art, then, with the muses leading him by the hand, he ascended to the sublime heights of laurels and of Parnassus.” GiovanContinue reading ““The Sublime Heights of Laurels and of Parnassus”: Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (1581–1641)”