Bernie Gunther's First GimletI CAME TO Philip Kerr (1956-2018) —and to his greatest creation, detective Bernhard Günther— oddly. Deliciously. It was in Madrid. During the course of a conversation over fish and wine with my friend and fellow-historian of things early modern and Spanish James Amelang, we…
St. Anthony & the Fishes475 steps from the door of my apartment building, in the Detroit Institute of the Arts, is an unsigned canvas attributed to Alonso Cano (1601-1667). A painter, architect and sculptor from Granada —who studied under Diego Velázquez in Sevilla— Cano made this piece for the Convent…
