Sanjo Palace Revisited

As noted four years ago
"The Attack on the Sanjo Palace"
in the Boston Museum
is one of my favorite paintings
of all time.


And when I read
Norris Kelly Smith
deplore the
"taste for episodic history"
evident in so many non-Michelangelo paintings
in the Sistine chapel,
I tried to think
of which such paintings
I may have enjoyed.

That's when the Sanjo Palace
came to mind.















And now,
happily,
I have discovered
that Bowdoin College
has finally done it justice
on the internet








Wow.

Even if I lived
in the Boston Museum
I wouldn't be able
to see such details
so conveniently

And what incredible details it has-
so full of variety

and composed with such
strength and vigor

It's like a an entire art museum
all by itself.

This kind of treatment
should be given
to every great painting and sculpture