Venus and Adonis, the painting of two mythological lovers by the great Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, answers two questions about central opposites that have caused much pain in love: How can we need a person and feel proud? How can the sensual be made one with thought?   >> more

 

Ms Rackow has spoken as well on:

• Edouard Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergeres: OR, SURFACE AND DEPTH IN WOMAN
• Henri Matisse's great "Icarus"
• And other works.

More to come.