User:Lackrey

INTRODUCING

MY PERSONAL  HISTORY

OF ROMAN ART

I am producing seven eBooks to create an understanding and purpose of the Decorative Arts, to pass on the knowledge, stories and Collotype Prints acquired studying art in the Italian Poligrafic, with over 50 years visiting museums, auctions, galleries, flea markets, antique shops, stalls while living in Rome, Italy and Canada, including collecting programs and noting prices where-ever possible, recording many thousands of items of all types and values, building an enormous collection of information on Decorative Arts, Antiques and Antiquities of all descriptions, especially that of the Art of Old Masters.

I have now retired and decided to write and present over a hundred Collotype pictures in the form of seven eBooks as follows: They will eventually arrive in Wikipedia

1.	Roman Art and the European Tradition 2.	Art of the Italian Renaissance 3.	The Development of Italian Ideas 4.	Art in the Netherlands 5.	The Light and Color of Venice 6.	Rome City, Center of European Art 7.	The Last Hundred Years

An art instructor of Rome, Italy, decided that I was to be taught about Rome history, antiquities, art and all things connected. This Instructor took me into the Roman Forum and said the most memorable words that I remember to this day in 2008, they were: “just do not listen to me, listen to them put your hand out, feel them. Your spirit will take you back in time”, it did and I have never forgotten them, they changed me and changed my life. Then Echo arrived, the Nymph on left and she will introduce to you “isitantique” she cannot speak only Echo the last words but her spirit is preparing the seven eBooks to show you the Pleasure of Art.

Think Differently !

My instructor said to me, don’t just feel, think, but try to think differently from the way you have always thought and by thinking differently you will have a life of some importance. This began a wonderful life for me that never ended, it was arranged for me to attend the Italian Polygrafic for a month while they reproduced Collotype Graphically in the old 18th century manner a series of work by Old Masters and receive instruction about these pictures, this was in 1964, I was delighted, very impressed and bought several hundred of these reproductions many of which I still have.

My user Name Lackrey - Call me Alex - come and communicate with me - All my own work