M. Curtis
A sculptor, painter, historian, architectural designer, and poet, Michael Curtis has taught and lectured at universities, colleges, and museums, including The Institute of Classical Architecture, The Center for Creative Studies, and The National Gallery of Art; his pictures and statues are housed in over 400 private and public collections, including The Library of Congress, The National Portrait Gallery, and The Supreme Court; he has made statues of presidents, generals, Supreme Court Justices, captains of industry and national heroes, including Davey Crockett, General Eisenhower, and Justice Thurgood Marshall; his relief and medals are especially fine, they include, among others, presidents Truman and Reagan, Justice John Marshall, George Washington, and, his History of Texas, containing over one-hundred figures, is the largest American relief sculpture of the 20th Century; his monuments and memorials, buildings and houses, including The New American Home, 2011, are found coast-to-coast; his plays, essays, verse and translations have been published in over 30 journals (Trinacria, Society of Classical Poets, Expansive Poetry, et cetera), and his most recent nonfiction books are, Occasional Poetry: How to Write Poems for Any Occasion (The Studio Press), and The Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C. (The History Press); his most recent book of verse is, Modern Art: An Exhibition of Criticism (National Civic Art Society); Mr. Curtis is the Common Sense Society's Artist-in-Residence. Other sites where Mr. Curtis can be found: The Classical Artist (art, architecture, and design), The Studio Press (essays and books – fiction and exposition, verse and prose).
Art Deco Style

Art Deco Style

  Art Deco, the old 20th Century art of industrial decoration, was inspired by archaic Greek and other antique styles, by ancient patterns of representation and worship.  You will notice in the Art Deco style, Egyptian and Babylonian motifs, statuary cousined...

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American Renaissance

American Renaissance

... Our Renaissance Revival, the American Renaissance : Athens, Florence, and all civil flowerings are born of virtue, tradition, and liberty.  These united states, in liberty by the virtues of tried-and-true traditions, experienced a civil flowering almost...

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Renaissance Revival House Plan

Renaissance Revival House Plan

... The Italian Renaissance and the Renaissance Revival House Plan   Renaissance Architecture   Italian Renaissance architecture is the architecture of Rome reborn with a Christian soul, personally heroic.  Rome’s Pantheon and Florence’s Pazzi Chapel have...

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Renaissance Revival

Renaissance Revival

... I wonder, can a rebirth be reborn.  If so, how many times?  The American Renaissance Revival began circa 1880 and continued through 1930, or so, one of many revival styles, Colonial, Mission, Tudor, et cetera, each a style practiced by architects skilled in...

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Renaissance Man

Renaissance Man

... Why mention Pico when I might have begun this consideration of Renaissance Man with the better-known Michelangelo or Alberti, the preeminent Leonardo, or the beautiful Raphael?  Well, where better than Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man to become acquainted with...

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The Christmas Creche

The Christmas Creche

... The Storybook Manger of the Christmas Crèche : Above a snow-blanketed valley upon an Italian mountainside is the quaint village of Greccio, and here the gentle Saint Francis prepared a manger peopled with a donkey, an ox, and townspeople, one of whom assumed the...

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The Gingerbread Cottage

The Gingerbread Cottage

... The Gingerbread Cottage : Famine in the land.  A hard-hacked cottage.  A simple woodcutter attends to the wife’s wishes: “Husband, there is food for only we two, so your children should be lent to the woods where they will be found and fed.”  Overhearing, young...

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Victor Nizovtsev Storybook Houses

Victor Nizovtsev Storybook Houses

... The Storybook Houses of Victor Nizovtsev : Look around.  All that you see was first seen in the artist’s mind, of the great Artist of Creation and of all the artists He created.  Notice the sun and moon, your table and chair, the silver or stainless, the glass or...

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The Storybook House

The Storybook House

  Once upon a time … do you hear the first line?   Do you remember?  Can you imagine the pictured scene with its Storybook House, homey, quaint, snuggled into a fairytale, fiction or dream.  This month, the house of storybook, of Hollywood, a house partly Tudor,...

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