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2025-09-20T20:15:30-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part Seven

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 8:15 pm By Ben Witherington

More grave monuments and inscriptions from the Roman world in this post. There is notably little art from ancient Greece in this museum but here is one piece… Read more

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2025-09-20T19:57:51-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part Six

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 7:57 pm By Ben Witherington

One of the surprising features of this small museum that is packed with all sorts of things is the very diversity of those things, for instance quite a lot of Greco-Roman and Egyptian objects, and we will look at them in this and the next post. There are for instance a lot of Roman grave steles, and some urns and sarcophagi as well, for instance the one immediately below. Many of these are inscribed with D.M. short for Dis Manibus–... Read more

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The dead are yet alive

2025-09-20T19:30:21-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part Five

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 7:30 pm By Ben Witherington

Classical education involved not only required study of Christian sources, but also classical literature as well. It is only in the 20th century that the requirement to study the Greek and Latin classics became optional in America, less so in Europe. The artists simply followed the lead of the educational programs in major university, since most art was for museums, the socially elite and well educated, and occasionally for universities that had major museums. Read more

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How many Marys who were really Miriams or Marias?

2025-09-20T15:10:17-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part Four

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 3:10 pm By Ben Witherington

There is quite a lot of religious art and artifacts in the Speed Museum. Here are two paintings of familiar Biblical scenes for instance Here’s the wedding feast at Cana, in a totally unlikely setting… There are also paintings of scenes from Greek tragedy…. Read more

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2025-09-20T09:14:20-04:00

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The Art of Speed–Part Three

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 9:14 am By Ben Witherington

In our last post we showed some of the Lincoln memorabilia but I left off his life mask by accident, and here it is… Notice the ancient wallpaper, very appropriate in Kentucky since limestone is everywhere… This beautiful marble statue is supposed to represent one of the three Christian virtues… Read more

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Henry Clay or Henry Clay Morrison?

2025-09-30T17:03:20-04:00

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A Squirrely Situation

Last updated on: September 30, 2025 at 5:03 pm By Ben Witherington

Ah…Fall. It’s pumpkin and cider season in Kentucky. However, it’s also school time, and so I’m teaching my doctoral students minding my own business on the third floor of the Admin building, when all of a sudden a squirrel shows up clinging to the screen in the window next to my lecture podium. He was upside down coming down from the roof I guess, and trying to figure out where to go. Alert student Sophia Huang, my T.A., quickly took... Read more

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2025-09-20T09:08:01-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part Two

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 9:08 am By Ben Witherington

There are an enormous number of portraits from various periods in the Speed museums. Artists then, as now had to work on commissions, and one they avoided poverty was doing portraits of rich women and men. Even painters as famous as Gainsborough had to do this. Some very famous portraits have been done in Kentucky, for instance of the great statesman– Henry Clay. But an even more famous native son of Kentucky was Abraham Lincoln born and raised here, and... Read more

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Honest Abe

2025-09-29T16:49:49-04:00

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Big News! The England Tour Now includes Downton Abbey

Last updated on: September 29, 2025 at 4:49 pm By Ben Witherington

O.K. all you Downton Abbey fans, how about a visit on the first day of our England tour next September 2026, to Highclere Castle aka Downton Abbey, and then spectacular Salisbury Cathedral? And that’s just Day One of a great tour. The brochure is below, and I recommend signing up. pronto, as we are only taking one bus load on this tour=42 persons. Here’s the brochure telling you how to sign up for this two week tour in late... Read more

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A deluxe tour of England

2025-09-19T09:15:32-04:00

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The Art of Speed– Part One

Last updated on: September 19, 2025 at 9:15 am By Ben Witherington

The Speed Art Museum, on the campus of the University of Louisville, turns out to be perhaps the best art museum in all of Kentucky, in terms of the scope and diversity of its holdings. For example, it has a whole 17th century wood-paneled room transported from England to Louisville— which is no small feat. And here it is… Read more

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They don't make doors and paneled rooms like they used to.

2025-09-16T17:11:55-04:00

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The Long Shadows of Fall in the Bluegrass

Last updated on: September 16, 2025 at 5:11 pm By Ben Witherington

The scientists were right of course. Not only does light bend, so do shadows, and in the Fall the shadows get long. One of my favorite things to do is drive the backroads in the Bluegrass, especially the ones between south Lexington on Military Pike, and then on towards Midway. There are endless horse farms which themselves are beautiful, including the giant one, Windstar, closer to Versailles, but just riding early in the morning with the morning shadows produces remarkable... Read more

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