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This GRIPE is for those readers that are comparing Leonardo’s apostles with that of Eakins’ apostles.

These two paintings are proportionally identical. However, when I photographed each painting I must have inadvertently nudged the camera slightly. I did[...]

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jumped ahead with this post number. The reason being, I thought it to be a good post number for GRIPE items for which I can now see one and I am sure, there will be more in the future. GRIPING is for a subject that does not require a post heading in and for itself.[...]

At this point in time I had been somewhat unsuccessful in my visit to Earles Galleries. However, my search continued.[...]

THOMAS, that is St. Thomas the APOSTLE.  What do we know of  historical  THOMAS?  Well we really don’t know much more about him than we did about Judas.  He was probably[...]

Earles’ Galleries was the gallery that  framed The Last Supper for Thomas Eakins.

James S. Earle & Sons traded under the name of Earles’ Galleries.  Their gallery was located at 816 Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia, PA. Thomas Eakins[...]

Thaddeus, Jude Thaddeus, why did Thomas Eakins decide on profiling Walt Whitman. In the creation of his version of The Last Supper Thomas Eakins accepted Leonardo’s groupings[...]

We can just review the facts.  Thaddeus was the same age as Jesus, they played together as children.  They were related.  They sat at the same table at the last supper.  At this point in time Jesus would have been in His very early 30′s.  Thaddeus would have been[...]

Thaddeus, Jude Thaddeus, what biblical information do we know about him.  He is believed to be a cousin of Jesus.  His mother Mary was related to the Blessed Virgin.  Jude Thaddeus is believed to have played with Jesus as a child.  When[...]

I was disappointed there was no color print.  How could Thomas Eakins know the correct colors of the tunics and robes that the apostles wore.  H e could easily have traced a picture of the painting and then painted it in  shades of black, gray  and white. But color NO. [...]

Yes, it did provide a clue. But I  was hoping to see a color print of  The Last Supper.  The author Eugene Muntz must have traveled to Milan an visited the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie.  He described in detail the construction of the refectory, inside and outside. [...]

Jesus’ was the last profile that Leonardo painted in his world famous painting, The Last Supper. This can be attested to by an eye witness whose  name was  Matteo[...]

What can be said about Jesus that has not already been said.  What can be said about Jesus that has not been rehashed.  I have read and I write not for that purpose but to just try to glimpse what Leonardo might have seen or heard when he[...]

2007:     About this point in time newspaper articles started to appear stating that Thomas Jefferson University was interested in selling their most famous painting The Gross Clinic. The articles perked my interest and I started reading some of them. [...]

1967: I had just leased a new apartment and was decorating same.  One of my brothers mentioned that there was a painting in a used furniture store in a historical section of Philadelphia, known as Germantown, that might interest me.  Always[...]

1898: Thomas Eakins had a religious experience.  It was now the 400th anniversity of Leonadro’s da Vinci’s most famous painting, The Last Supper. Eakins   was now experiencing   Leonardo’s honors, 400 years after the fact.  Eakins believed[...]

Addendum: This post is a little off the targeted subject but it is somewhat related.  Again I am a little behind on my postings, I just wasn’t feeling OK.  My wife Kathleen insisted that I get a weeks’ rest.  We went away for 10 days.  We drove[...]

Well readers, today is Good Friday, April 22, 2011, our launch day for Thomas Eakins’  The Last Supper. However, I am not as far along  on the launch as I had anticipated.  A recent holiday, March 17, 2011 was St. Patrick’s Day.  It was a big day for me, I[...]

This is the first posting and I would like to give you, our readers, an overview of the direction and purpose of this website. The main character is Thomas Eakins, followed by his circle of friends.

I have been researching a painting for four years. However, it was[...]