{"id":1481,"date":"2009-10-21T07:13:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2009-10-21T07:13:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T12:13:44","slug":"master-of-shadows-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Master of Shadows: Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/9vandergeesthouse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/9vandergeesthouse.jpg\" alt=\"9vandergeesthouse\" title=\"9vandergeesthouse\" width=\"450\" <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a great honor last night to celebrate publication of Master of Shadows with a small gathering at the residence of the Belgian Consul General in New York, Ambassador Herman Portocarero. The ambassador is a distinguished author in his own right, so it was especially appropriate to be there speaking about another artist-diplomat. I cannot thank him and his lovely wife Myriam enough for their generosity, nor can words adequately describe my debt to Dan Benjoseph and especially Lilliane Opsomer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flandershouse.org\/\">FlandersHouse<\/a>, for so much support. As I noted, it was just the kind of event Rubens enjoyed in his own day, as you can see in the image above, a painting by William van Haecht of an Antwerp party with Rubens in attendance (at bottom left.)<\/p>\n<p>A few pictures after the jump:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1481 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1483'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-1536x1526.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-1-2048x2034.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1484'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1485'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1486'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1488'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mos-reading-091020-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?attachment_id=1494'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/9vandergeesthouse-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>[clockwise from top left]<br \/>\n-Ambassador Herman Portocarero<br \/>\n-Mark Lamster<br \/>\n-Nan Talese, Mark Lamster, Ambassador Portocarero<br \/>\n-A party at the home of Cornelis van der Geest, by William van Haecht<br \/>\n-Nan Talese with Ambassador Portocarero and a looming Rubens<br \/>\n-Lilliane Opsomer, Nan Talese, Mark Lamster, Ambassador Portocarero, Dan Benjoseph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}