Canine on the Half-Shell

Flaubert and Botticelli

One of the great things about being an art history professor is being able to show people the fantastic paintings that artists like Botticelli created before names like Botticelli were demoted to tomato sauce brands. Modern painter names that begin with B’s are names like Basquiat and I mean, what kind of name is that? It makes you think of squatting, a…