The scholarship involved in this lecture is absolutely amazing. What an incredible story about the most interesting of friends.

It is wonderful how Xavier Salomon explains explains the background history of all these wonderful paintings at the Frick

I didnt know this artist Aretino but having visited Venice saw so many beatiful churches and palaces painted by different artist like Tintoretto anf Tician have painted also in Hungarys greatest Catedral Maria Assumpstion in bishopresident Esztergom .I remain very found of early italian art.Thanks for your explanation.I had opportunity also read about art in Italian art in Institute in Budapest.You are wellcome also in our Museums .

Brilliant. I look forward to these talks so much, I hope they never stop!

Salute! I especially enjoy the Frick connections to Venetian art and cocktails.

In Antwerp Belgium, watch Xavier and Aimee every saterday morning, beautiful start of the weekend. The cocktail is for the evening. Hope to come back to the Frick as soon as possible 😊

Hello 👋 from Mantova, Italy!!! How nice to have my city, the Gonzaga family, Pietro Aretino and our beloved Giulio Romano mentioned in a frick collection video! Thank so much, and cheers 🥂!

Thank you Xavier for making every Friday a memorable one for me !

I am so enjoying these lectures and learning about art, cultural history and politics, while getting to admire beautiful works. This was a wonderful peek into another world and time. I love how we got the entire mini biography of that writer. Such a joy.

Wonderful lecture! The stories behind the paintings are so rich and rewarding. The human connection is everything.

Yet another masterpiece ,Thank you Xavier ,you make life worth living.

Thank you for another great talk. I am one of a group of guides (docents) from the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia for whom Dr Xavier Salomon's Cocktails with a Curator is a highlight of the week. We watch it every Saturday being 14 hours ahead of New York

Cheers! And thank you for yet another entertaining and informative story of art. I always look forward to our Fridays.

Thanks again, Xavier. TGIF has taken on a whole new meaning!

Excellent, good and important art stories. Thank you!

Wonderful, as ever. I shall seek out Sheila Hale’s biography of Titian and ....white peaches.

Another great episode! I can’t wait til the next one by Xavier.

Thank you so much. I love this series. Olin Williams, Portland, Or

As always, fascinating stories and histories. Thank you! Kleinberg-Levin, NYC

So great! Just love these talks. I'll become a member when the museum opens

Thanks Mr. SALAMON your possision seariously to decide about arts and dicide about hungarians.I wa see>ng the Olimpics and l like the players anatomy and game. I THINK l have heared this lecture.

Thank you Mr. Salomon for your wonderful explanation.

Fascinating! So many facts and it presented a great insight into the time of Titian and Aretino. Makes me want to learn more!

Wonderful, as usual love these talks! Thank you 😊

Brilliant and so interesting! Thank you.

Grazie Xavier per avermi fatto tornare ancora nel mio bel paese ad onorare un'istituzione come Tiziano Molto bella la tua selezione che va dai grandi capolavori agli oggetti più curiosi come il vaso Japon che confesso non aver mai notato alla Frick

I'm sure many will disagree with me, but I would much prefer more discussion on the artistic significance, style, techniques, etc, than the historical significance of the subject. This is especially true for me with regard to Titian for whom I cannot pin down a recognizable style given the varied and large number of works. Thanks for listening...

Fantastic.Period. E sempre grazie

So August, white peaches and Prosecco. And Titian undaunted by plague, I am inspired Xavier, so inspired, and undaunted in this profile!

Excellent! Thank you! I'm glad that you reccommended Sheila Hale's biography: it is a masterpiece.

So good, thank you so much what a wonderful way to take my mind off of the events of the world (and the raging grass fires). Thank you Xavier again for sharing your knowledge and your Bellini ! I know where to find white peaches and the biography that you spoke of!

Lovely!Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

A fascinting presentation- showing us the context and blending of politics, art, religion, poetry and sexuality in Italy. Recalls the novel, somewhat, The Sixteen Pleasures, by Robert Helenga. Thanks!

Delicious! So thoroughly engaging. Thank you from Australia SB

Thank you Xavier, excellent lecture. I will research Aretino.

A Cocktail with a Curator presentation on El Greco's painting of St Jerome would be fantastic!

Bravo!! come sempre

Concise and informative, many thanks!

Thank you. Well done.

Grazie e buona serata!

Fabulous. Im off too see the reunited Titian "Poesies" at the National in London on Friday (its going on tour I believe to all the present holders including the Prado and the Isabella Stewart Gardner). Imagine the conversations within this group about Ovid. Theres also quite an interesting new Biography of Aretino.

I am enjoying a Propel, but your drink would be lovely. It looks like your portrait, the elegant man dressed in black.

Thank you for the Hale book recommendation.

What happened to the other curator I loved her clear voice and sunny disposition Please can we see her again ?

Always enjoyable

Tonight's featured cocktail is the Bellini (white peach puree with prosecco) and the mocktail is juice of uva fragola (strawberry grapes). For the recipe, please visit our website: frick.org/cocktails

Rome always had henchmen that attached themselves to the various families and factions. It's probable the sitter was one such from the Tuscan faction. He may have risen to real power in later life and much like a bank chair today his portrait kept as a matter of respect.

Xavier, this could easily be a portrait of you!

If all copies of The Ways were destroyed by the Inquisition including the plates used to produce them, how'd we get the image at 9:44? Btw, is there an English translation? Asking for a friend. Orson Welles would've made a great Aretino had he made a movie about him. Aretino definitely has a Falstaff-ian thing about him.

High from Shreveport

No mention of Aretino's scandalous sex life but I guess that's not so relevant to this painting (o; Another engaging episode.

Bellini recipe please!

444 is a very bad luck number in Chinese since the number 4 is a homonym with the Chinese word for "death".

🔴(دولة الطاغوت دولة الوهم ووهم الدولة) يحكى أن رجل ابتاع حصان فأراد أن ينام داخل بيته ويربط الحصان خارجه فبحث عن حبل يربط به الحصان فلم يجد فذهب لجاره وكان سائس خيل فقال له أريد أن تعيرني حبالاً لأربط به حصاني الذي اشتريته آنفاً فقال له السائس ولما أعيرك حبالاً بل ولما تربط الحصان بحبال فقال له الرجل وبماذا أربطه قال لاتحتاج لربطه بحبال قال فماذا أصنع قال أوهم الحصان أنك تربطه بحبال وبالفعل عاد الرجل لحصانه وأوهمه أنه يربطه ثم دخل بيته ونام وبعد أن استيقظ في الصباح وجد الحصان في مكانه ففرح الرجل أن تعلم كيف يربط الحصان بلاحبل فركب على ظهر الحصان ليذهب به إلى عمله ولكن الحصان رفض المشي أو التحرك من مكانه فنزل الرجل وذهب لسائس الخيل وقال له أدركني فالحصان لايمشي ولايتحرك ولايريد أن يتحرك من مكانه قال له السائس هل فككت وثاقه قال أنا لم أربطه بحبل قال له السائس اذهب وأوهمه أنك تحل وثاقه وبالفعل عاد الرجل وأوهم الحصان أنه يفك عنه وثاقه ثم امتطاه ومضى به الحصان فالدولة هي هذا الشعب فالوزير منهم والعالم منهم والتاجر منهم والإعلامي منهم والطبيب والمهندس والجندي منهم والمزارع والراعي منهم وماهذا الطاغوت إلا فرد يغرس في نفوسهم الوهم فيقود ويستعبد بعضهم بعضاً له وهو باقٍ ماكانوا متفرقين وما سياسات التخويف بالإعلام الحربي والناعم من خلال الأفلام والمسلسلات والمقالات ودعوى كورونا هذه إلا لغرس الخوف الذي يولد الوهم الذي تقوم عليه دولة الطاغوت فيفرقهم به حتى لايكونوا عصبة فيكتشفون ضعفه وجبنه وخوره لاسيما في الوقت الذي نفذت فيه الأموال التي يربط بها القلوب بالشهوات والفرق بين دولة الشيطان والكفر وحزبه ودولة الإيمان وحزبه أن الأولى تربط أعناق قلوب الناس بزبالات أذهان الطواغيت البشرية (القوانين الجاهلية) وتخلد بها إلى الأرض وتضع أقدامهم فوق رؤوسهم فلايرفعوها ودولة الإيمان تربط أعناق قلوب الناس بالتوحيد والبراءة من الشرك أهله ولاتفرق بين شريف وضعيف وتصعدبها إلى العلي العظيم فلاتقبل رؤوسهم أن تهبط للأرض إلاشهيدة أوميتة في سبيل الله فتصعد الروح من الجسد للعلي العظيم كما صعد الجسد والروح للعلي العظيم في حياته فحياة المؤمن وموته شموخ وصعود وتدرج وحياة الكافر والمنافق والمرتد والفاسق ذلة وهوان وهبوط وتدرك.

This is not a reproach, rather a suggestion. It would be nice to hear also about the artistic qualities of the paintings you select, not just the stories behind them. The piece on Bellini's majestic Meditazione di San Francesco went in that direction, this one, though equally riveting, stopped at philology. Maybe that's not the point of the series, and if this is the case I get it.Who doesn't love the work of Aby Warburg? But here is the thing, we are sadly losing the ability to tell beautiful apart from dull. As art history is not taught in schools (not in the US) and museums are few and far apart (also in most of the US), how is a young mind going to form its taste? Memory and philology are satisfying because they deal with facts, but how are young folks (and even old ones like me) going to form value judgements? Just an idea.

R

can't do it w/o the cocktail? is that what it takes to get people interested in the Frick?

I really love this episode