Essay PDFs (Full-length Articles)
Most of the explanations and discussion on this site are brief in keeping with the way in which the web is used. Many of our users are short of time. However, for those wanting a more in-depth examination of the issues or of individual works of art, full-length articles on particular topics are available for download below. They are all free.
Find out how even Michelangelo's earliest religious sculpture represents the workings of his own mind
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Michelangelo’s Madonna of the Stairs (c.1491)
See how esotericsm in art could have flourished within the Medieval Church
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The Two Medieval Churches and Their Impact on Art
Even in America, far from the great examples of Western art in Europe's cities, artists knew and understood art's purpose
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Portraits of the Artist as America’s Founding Fathers
See how an expert's new observations about a Michelangelo drawing still leads to a similar conclusion
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Mystery of Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina
Find out how finding the source of a form can help explain its meaning
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How Forms in Art Work
How to recognize that a figure involved in another activity is, in theory, painting
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Sight Unseen 2 : Painting in Art
How battles by both Picasso and Michelangelo have similar meaning
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Sight Unseen 3 : Battles from Michelangelo to Picasso
Learn how the sources of Manet's forms change their meaning
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Sight Unseen 4 : Forms and Transformation
See how early Netherlandish painters painted themselves.
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Who’s Who in Portraits 1: Early Netherlandish
Discover that Napoleon's face is the artist's
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Who’s Who in Portraits 2: Napoleon and French Rulers
See how the iconic faces of Britain's kings and queens are not what their subjects thought
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Who’s Who in Portraits 3: British Monarchs
See how many portraits in an important exhibition called Renaissance Faces in 2008 can be shown to be, contrary to the catalogue, fusions of the artist's own face.
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Who’s Who in Portraits 4: Renaissance Faces
An early discovery (2003) crucial to the EPPH paradigm
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Manet’s Le Déjeuner and Mlle. V. Simply Explained
This brief essay reveals for the first time how Michelangelo, in one of the world's great visual illusions, morphed his self-portrait into the torso and leg of St. Peter in The Last Judgment.
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Michelangelo’s Only Known Self-portrait
This paper hopes to jump-start the process of revealing what has long been hidden: metamorphic faces in the work of varying artists across five centuries.
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Hidden Faces: Art in the Artist’s Mind
Astonishing evidence that Rembrandt belonged to an esoteric society that affected both his life and art. Even his signature chiaroscuro must be seen in a new light.
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“Rembrandt: The Turn of the Key” by Zhenya Gershman (publ. 2014)
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