More About Larry

Larry received his bachelor's degree from St. John's College in May, 1991. His senior essay is entitled “Hegel’s Phenomenology and the Book of Job”.

Larry went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College, where he specialized in seventeenth-century Spanish painting. The title of Larry's dissertation is Velázquez: The Spanish Style and the Art of Devotion; his master's thesis is entitled “Bartolomé Esteban Murillo & the Immaculate Reconception of the Artist: Baroque Identity & Self-Portrayal in Seventeenth-Century Seville”.

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Below are links to some of Larry's favorite museums and galleries, research libraries, and to specific exhibitions and events he attended.


Museums & Galleries

Salas de Velázquez [©Museo Nacional del Prado]National Museum of Asian Art

The Frick Collection

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museo Nacional del Prado

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Gallery of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art


Research Libraries

The Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania

Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection

The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library

Rhys Carpenter Library, Bryn Mawr College


Specific Exhibitions & Events

El Greco to Velázquez

Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700

Sacred Spain: Art & Belief in the Spanish World (no longer available online)

Symposium Internacional Velázquez

Symposium: Sacred and Profane in the Early Modern Hispanic World (no longer available online)

Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820

Velázquez y Sevilla