We are fans of Xavier's Frick videos. We wish they would go on for an hour, rather than 15-20 minutes, but we know that that is unreasonable. In any case, thank you, Xavier, for your wise, erudite, and compassionate sharing with us on Wednesdays and Fridays. The videos are absolute markers in our quarantined weeks... in addition of course to the KZfaq Masses from our Brooklyn parish. We hope that, through your passionate sharing of your interests, you are adding to those who support your wonderful institution.

I found this curator series as a result of browsing KZfaq during the lockdown and have enjoyed them all very much. I especially appreciate the length of the videos and having a narrow focus on a travel or a piece of art.

Completely transporting! Thank you Xavier F. Salomon!💙

You have grown in confidence and are more relaxed. Your humour and warmth shines through. Thank you so much. Please, please continue...these talks are wonderful.

Xavier is so intelligent and able to explain these paintings so well. If it weren't for this self-isolation I probably would never have seen these fascinating videos. Thank you.

I love your red painting on your wall. Thank you for the terrific videos. Interesting about derivation of quarantine.

Absolutely the very best !! Thank you !!

Thanks so much for this interesting virtual trip. I hope to get to see the places in person some day. Thanks also to The Wall Street Journal for highlighting this series. That’s how I found it.

Superb. Fascinating. I learned so much. I had no idea of the origin of the word quarantine. Thank you.

Thank you for the amazing videos!

Really have no desire to visit New York, but the museums and art galleries there reside. Your wonderful overviews of the collection, may just be a turning point. Bucket list addition...

Stunning! Very pleasant voice ❤️

Thank you, Xavier! My family and I have been enjoying both your Travels with a Curator and Cocktails with a Curator. We look forward to your talks every week! When we are able to come back to the Frick Collection, I'm sure we will have a new appreciation of the works that you have discussed.

Thanks for the conference it was very informative.

I was supposed to be in New York this July but will hopefully be there next July. If it hadn’t been for lock down I probably wouldn’t have heard about the Frick. I am so looking forward to visiting next year. Many thanks for your lovely talks😺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Definitely on the travel list

Thanks again, for a fascinating journey! Once again, I learned a couple of things and I got to travel to places I will never see!

Another wonderful presentation-thank you!!

These short lectures are such a treat! Thank you! There are so many gorgeous things at the Frick, but I’d love to see one of these videos on the Piero St. John or the Titian portrait of the guy with the red cap. And, as for the Ducio, Jesus may have been the one in quarantine, but Satan is definitely the one who needs a trip to the hairdresser.

Very interesting. Thank you very much. Looking forward the next one.

DEAR MR SALAMON IT WAS AGAIN A VERY IMPORTANT TRIP FOR MEE AS I HAVE UNDERSTOD WHAT MOUNT QUARANTAL WHERE THE THEMPTATION HAPPENED . JERICO THE JUDEAN DESERT AND THE CONVERTED ZACCHEUS ON THE TREE WAS FOR MEE NEW FROM THE BIBLE.DucoBumcina tree in the hidden cave must bee beautiful....

Crafted commentary, just love these! I so appreciate that you are adding depth and flavor and layers to paintings and places

You are a great teacher! Cannot thank you enough and especially for showing such respect to the religious images! Thank you again!

Feel fortunate to listen and get an appreciation and feel awe with the art or destination. Thank you.

As intresting as usual! Hope you Will go on with your marvellous conferentes. Thank you, and thanks to the Frick Collection to make this possible.

very good, never stop

Beautiful and inspiring your lecture! I am enjoying every one of your series and I’m looking forward to the next! Thanks so much to you and the Frick collection!

Hello thanks for your biblical travel whete l have never been but the stories are known and make everybody to think quaranties and trying to do sum fusten time for preapering for easter.Bu looking back to Tuscanies beautiful chatedral and the temptations fresco where not only the deavil is dipected by Ducco but thanks god 2 anggels on the side Jezus rescuing him.Jerico and the Dead See is a great distance from Italy and New York your travel must had been a real pilrimmige which also shows you belive not only art and desire to know the world bot sharing experience about also culture and therefore thanks again. IT can bee hard for you 40? Days without coctails.ciao Have a nice easter wihout Covid with God blessing.

I love this small gem of a predella panel by Duccio. Such a fine piece, and this history of the mountain and the monastery is fascinating. I hope we are all able to travel again some day, but I fear it will be a long time before we can do so comfortably.

What an extraordinary opportunity it is to have Xavier as a guide and teacher.

Another informative mini lecture to brighten our lockdown days. Thank you. Really enjoyed it.

Echoing the other positive comments-how delightful to learn more about one of the most interesting paintings at the Frick and travel to places I never heard of, much less thought I'd get to see. Thank you for your research and vision.

Thanks a million for this wonderful episode. We can't wait to visit Sienna with you.

Thank you!

Fresh, engaging and captivating, Xavier’s discussions of art masterpieces and history lift the participants onto another level.

thank you, special.

This is my first comment on KZfaq. We enjoy both Travels with a Curator and Cooktails with a Curator very much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion on art and history with us, Xavier.

Love this videos, Thanks Xavier

This man is the Pied Piper.

Fascinating! Had no idea we are all being given the equivalent of forty days in the wilderness . . .

The temple in Jesus time was Herods temple,King Solomom lived 1000 years earlier.In the post card on top of the mountain you can see the walls of an hospital for infectious diseases which need quarantine.

It must have been a very difficult trip to reach the place where the temptation Jezus happened.I am not quite clear with the orthodox doctrines although I had spent nearly one year in Greece 1989 among orthodoxes and visited Mount Athos and several beutiful chathedrals and many beatiful but dangerus places see etc.As eastern is comming in a few monthes you choose the 40 days fasten so I ungetstand in a way to choose not Sienna which I also visited for a long time ago and remmember the facade with gold and blue mosaiks and other colours impressed me much.Inside you have of cours the spirit of trinity.So I wish you all the best.I oppened my italian bibbio and found a few parts feg.samuel gudisi samuel rei giovannis letter not quite understand because your nice language but I learn in this way also something more.arridevetci

I thought that the word "quarantine" originated in Persia. Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina (980-1037), suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganism's. To prevent human to human contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He called this "al-arba'iniya", the forty. Traders from Venice heard of his success and took this knowledge back to Italy. They called it "quarantine", the forty in Italian. Is there a connection here between these two explanations? Thanks for another great talk!

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I love your episodes and I find the information and history you impart to be very exacting and of course it is shared in a very engaging manner. I must therefore say, there is no "Palestine in the West Bank", rather the correct term for the area - not a different country - is the Palestinian Authority. I hope you will take note, as in passing on incorrect information would affect the integrity of your other explications of war and historical backgrounds to art pieces.

The next time you go to Jordan, you can visit the Black Desert. The most interesting part is located in the Governorate of Mafraq. There are very interesting ruins and geoglyphs there, dated 8,500 years old. They can only be seen from satellites from the outer space and high altitudes (planes, drones and helicopters) and they are as awesome as the lines of Nazca in Peru. Archaeologists don't exactly know nowadays what they represent. These ruins really represent embryos of several species in different stages of development and will be able to shed light on the origin of the human being and our planet. When it will be officially confirmed by biologists, this discovery will change the way we see ourselves and the world, they will constitute a destination number one and be a delight for the eyes. 10 minutes video with translation: pontes-canosa-research.blogspot.com/2018/04/revelations-with-virtu-pontes-jordan.html and a summary with nice pictures: pontes-canosa-research.blogspot.com/2018/01/great-discoveries-in-jordan.html

Terrific video and I’m cross that during my brief visit to Jericho I saw none of this (knew nothing about it). I hope Xavier visited Palestine via Amman and not settler colonialist entitles airport.

I really wish Xavier had more control over his voice level. It oscillates from strong and clear to low and muffled as a function of the emphasis applied.

Se non erro , ora la parte centrale sta agli uffizi

the jordan river west bank is very much a part of the state of israel. the palestin west bank is difrent teritory.

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There is no ‘Palestine.’ There are Arab people who call themselves Palestinians. The name Palestine was what Pompey decided to call Israel as an insult to Israel after he conquered it because the Philistines were Israel’s enemies. There COULD be a Palestinian state if only the Palestinians would agree to a peace treaty with Israel which has been offered and offered and offered but never accepted.