Barbara Chase-Riboud. Rome on certain nights

on certain nights

published in 2018

going from the top of the mountain to the open sea

then time and self-control escape the obsessed lover

Käthe Kollwitz commented in her Journal on the lives of those around her

Barbara Chase-Riboud. Rome on certain nightsInterview with Guillaume Dsanges. A particularly precocious American visual artist, Barbara Chase Riboud won a scholarship at the age of 18 to study at the American Academy in Rome. She took the opportunity to travel to Egypt, where the art of the pharaohs deeply impressed her, as evidenced by The Last Supper (1958). Returning to the United States in 1958, she enrolled at Yale. The only African American student in her department, she studied painting