Below: Trajan's Column,
Rome, 2009; Right: Piazza
Venezia, Rome, 2004
New Yorker under the pseudonym Top Hat, covering
Gotham's giddy Jazz-Age nightclub scene.
Dominating one end of the studio is another Baskerville
creation, a huge trompe l'oeil fireplace over which
hangs a large glowing painting by Van Doren. It is of
one of his fondest subjects, in one of his favorite places,
the Basilica San Marco in Venice. A tour de force, it depicts
the monumental Byzantine cathedral under sparkling
sapphire-blue sky in a panoply of striking colors that
drool rivulets of green, gold and umber to the bottom
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