Article: 21ST-CENTURY QUEST FOR A 600-YEAR-OLD STYLE IS PROVOCATIVE.(Whats_Happening)

Byline: JUDY WAGONFELDSpecial to the P-I

If naming people could seal their fates, the parents of Gabrielle Bakker and Gloria DeArcangelis hit it dead on.

Unlike contemporary monikers, these sound religious and epic. As if prophetic, they bind these Seattle women to relentless pursuits of art as arcane as their names. Like Sisyphus, whom Zeus punished with the eternal task of pushing a boulder uphill, they toil against obscurity, sentenced in the court of art.

Their crime? Looking back, way back to the 15th century's Renaissance masters such as Leonardo, Raphael, Van Eyck and Botticelli. Why labor so hard on ancient methods, setting ...

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