This 70 page essay puts Luminism in perceptive. Discovered almost a hundred years after its inception, this movement singles out four mature painters of the Hudson River School with a uniquely distinctive luminosity in their work. The Author follows the migration of the Renaissance and its direct influences on this movement, making a connection through technique and stylistic innovations to the last vestiges of this purely refined Renaissance ideal.

What irony that one of the greatest single handed artistic achievements had to be stripped clean by restorers using an oven cleaner for reasons of a miss guided analysis. This fracas is beyond imagination, what arrogance, single mindedness and carelessness. This ultimately is a desensitizing of the human condition faced with industrialism and technology. An accident waiting to happen...

The invention of tube paint, this single event, would redefine the direction of art; not only by changing not how artist’s worked, the quality of painting, but ultimately what was art.

The extraordinary documentation of a Renaissance painting contest taking place in one day.