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palladio no palladian
Was Palladio a Palladian? The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… It is an odd thesis to assert that Andrea Palladio is unknown. If any architect has achieved … Continue reading
thoreau: passing time at the pond
…One of his most frequent visitors was Alek Therien, the French-Canadian wood chopper later immortalized in Walden. Therien, almost exactly Thoreau’s age, had come down from Canada when he was in his teens. Although their backgrounds were very different, they … Continue reading
canaletto: one sunny afternoon
Twas’ a sunny day. Canaletto in London. He painted, in 1746, his A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palce; the city of London as it looked on that sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. We … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Dickens, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morton's Tower London, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, the Adams brothers design, Westminster Bridge, William Hogarth
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Canaletto: not quite picture perfect
Canaletto in London in 1746. He painted A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace; the best of cities on a sparkling summer day. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles de Brosses, David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs, Mrs. Cibber, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Peg Woffington, Ranelagh gardens London, Robert Griffier painter, the Adam brothers design, Tobias George Smollet, Wedgewood pottery
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canaletto in London: one picture tells many stories
Canaletto’s picture perfect painting for postcard tourist reproduction was just a bit too idyllic and ideal. He painted a View From the Thames from Lambeth Palace on a sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. But what … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Beddington curator, Charles de Brosses, Charles James Fox, Edward Dayes water colorist, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of Austrian Succession
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canaletto: capturing the body english
Canaletto and his postcard from London. A little too picure perfect. What was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon… On the whole, London was lucky in that the town’s best source of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, Chelsea Ware, Henry Fielding, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier painter, Steele and Addison, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Wedgewood pottery
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canaletto: from venice to the thames
Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Hyde Park floggings, Judith Dufour, London eighteenth-century, London the Spectator, London the Tatler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier, Samuel Scott painter, Smith's Square London, Tyburn public hangings
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nature abhors a straight line
England’s original contribution to garden art is the landscape park. William Kent was among the first to see that “all nature is a garden.” and his famous dictum that ” nature abhors a straight line.” Interesting in light of linear … Continue reading
vice is the spice of life
Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, charles churchill, Charles Dickens, england 1784 election, George Cruickshank, George Romney, henry william bunbury, Honore Daumier, hoppner, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Reynolds, pierce egan, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Victorian England, william dent, William Hogarth, william wells
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