Michael Harwig. (Boston - Massachusetts). Hartwig is an emerging oil painter who has earned quick acclaim for his ethereal and meditative representational works. His work as an artist was first inspired when doing graduate studies in Rome. Each day walking to the university, he stopped in churches filled with masterpieces by Caravaggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, explored the great archaeological parks where soaring Roman monuments evoked the genius of unnamed architects, and wandered through the narrow streets and alleys where yellow ochre and sienna hued palaces created an ever surprising urban canvas.