Duomo di Firenze. From my series of miniature landscape panels, including Konomie Dulce et Decorum, inspired by the history of European Plein-air painting. Particularly the late eighteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century, when, as part of their education, many budding artists travelled to Rome to paint studies of the ancient city and the surrounding countryside. The vocabulary of photorealism here is not coincidental but a deliberate reference to this era of innovation when the conventions of painting influenced the development of modern photography. And visa versa. In his book, Before Photography, author Peter Galassi explores this brackish interface in depth and informed my approach to this body of work. Completed in 1993.
