Painting Pleasure Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le Déjeuner des Canotiers) affords one the rare pleasure of looking in on the cheerful charm of…
I’m a Californian living in Italy where I became a sommelier with AIS (Associazione Sommelier Italiana). Passionate about perception, I explore wine through art, philosophy and culture, in addition to organizing private tasting events and writing about wine on my blog, Vinthropology, and Instagram @vinthropology
Caravaggio’s Young Sick Bacchus, known also as Bacchino Malato, is an alluring portrayal of illness and vice. Darkened by suffering, it seems nonetheless also illuminated…
Roman god of wine and harvest inspired by the Greek Dionisius, symbol of controversial rituals celebrating pleasure and inebriation, naked yet crowned, not boy nor…