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FRANCISCO BENITEZ
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The Art of Empire In Rome and America Brown
Symposium xxxii, Feb. 11-12, 2010 Dr.
Thomas Howe, Hermann Brown Professor, Southwestern University Exhibition
curated by Dr. Thomas Howe and Edward Lucie-Smith Exhibition through March 7, 2010 Alma Thomas Theater, and Art Gallery, Sarofim School of Fine Arts Southwestern University Speakers: Edward Lucie-Smith, art critic, London Alexander Stille, Columbia University, New Yorker Magazine,
New York Times Karl Galinsky, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Margaret Malamud, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces Edward Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown, University Thomas Noble Howe, Herman Brown Professor, Southwestern University Exhibiting Artists: Mersad Berber, Bosnia/Zagreb Francisco Benitez, Santa Fe Edward Lucie-Smith, London Francisco Benitez (Santa Fe) has been working extensively in the
Pompei area for years and has studied and reinterpreted many aspects of ancient Greek and Roman painting, including encaustic
and fresco technique. Benítez has worked as a kind of art historical archaeologist, drawing connections between the remote
past and the existential angst of modern culture and civilization. He has studied the “virtual reconstructions”
of famous paintings which Romans commissioned for the frescoes of their own houses, and attempts to reproduce the ancient
view of painting, by starting with visible and moving to a moral expression of the soul. He will be creating works especially
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