Your Best Hour

Lessons learned from the Horatii brothers and sisters.

This painting was like a lit dynamite stick to the French Revolution.

There's no place like home.

During the Dutch Golden Age, 5-10 million artworks were produced for an audience who cared about home

We are drawn into a space of one shows us the beauty of quiet focus.

History teaches us that rigid rule and control of a ruler, while tidy, does not acknowledge the human right to choose.

All roads lead to the Versailles and the rule of Louis XIV. 

A luxe oil painting worthy of the king.

The Lamassu are our guides through the transition spaces of this thresholds--what other types of thresholds do we pass through that hold meaning for us?

These animals flanked doorways of special spaces in the Assyrian Empire.

This groovy combo creature gives us so much to look at.

This scribe asks us: would we want our role in life continue on for the eternities?

This sculpture teaches us about the role of preservation in Egyptian culture.

We see the phenomenal preservation of this Ancient Egyptian scribe--don't forget to look at his eyes!

This sculpture brings up the bigger question: When is a sculpture nude and when is it just naked?

Through the centuries, the Greeks iterated on how to create the most idealized figure.

We are looking at the Greek's mastery of the human form.

Nike invites us to receive our deepest desire, to experience freedom.

Nike, a protector of dreams and hopes of ancient sailors.

The Nike of Samothrace dazzles us with her groundedness and lift.

Beyond the gobsmacking experience of witnessing this painting with people from every corner of the globe, might we take Leonardo's lifelong quest for truth to heart, and use both laws of the universe and observations from feathers and flowers to teach us about our world.

Leonardo was the quintessential Renaissance man, through his quest for truth by combining his quest to understand large, metaphysical truths with his keen observation of the natural world. 

Step 3 is WONDER, tapping our curiosity and imagination to let this thing teach us how to be human and connect us to the people of the past.

THINK is Step 2 of our art meaning making practice--what is the story the object is telling.

LOOK: This is the first step in the "Look-Think-Wonder" practice for art meaning-making.