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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth
It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Allan Chong Gardner, Anthony Van Dyck, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, Bindo Altoviti, boticelli, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Edgar Degas, Fra Angelico, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, Morris Carter, Simone Martini, Villa Livia Rome
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THE DODGY MASTER: PSST… ITS EROTIC ABSOLUTISM
“Besides foreshadowing Warhol, Rubens amounted to the Walt Disney of his day—a hardworking industrialist of standardized pleasures. He not only ran his studio as a virtual assembly line; he oversaw the mass production of prints, based on his paintings, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambroglio di Spinola, Andy Warhol, Archduchess Isabella, Benvenuto Cellini, Bologna, Caravaggio, Counter Reformation, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Flemish painting, Giovanni da Bologna, Helena Fourment Rubens, Inigo Jones, Justus Lipsius, Macchiavelli, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude, Olivares, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Seneca, Simon Schama, Walt Disney
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BRONZE SCULPTURE: ALCHEMIST CONSOLATION PRIZE
The Gates of Hell on which Auguste Rodin worked for two decades,is presently among twenty bronzes outside in the Sculpture Garden of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Designed by Robert Mittelstadt, the concept seeks to evoke the spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernini, Bronze horse overture, bronze sculpture, Cantor Arts Center, Daumier, Degas, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Duke of Wellington, Edgar Degas, Gericault, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Leonardo Da Vinci, maillol, Marino Marini, Matthew Cotes Wyatt, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pablo Picasso, Renoir, Robert Mittelstadt, Sir John Madejski, Violet Shinbach
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Bach, Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, Byron Childe Harolde, Camille Moke, Courbet, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, J.H. Eliot, John William Waterhouse, Lord Byron, Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Pleyel Pianos, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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ECSTASY OF ROMANTIC APOCALYPSE
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench … Continue reading
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Tagged Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz March to the Scaffold, Berlioz Rakoczy March, Camille Moke, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, Lord Byron, Marie Recio, Mayerbeer, Mendelssohn, Niccolo Paganini, Pinchas Steinberg, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Turner, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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MAESTRO OF LOVE & BETRAYAL
”Nothing in my artistic career hurt me more deeply than this unexpected indifference. It was a painful discovery, but it was at least salutary, in that I learnt from it, and from then on I have not gambled even twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Benvenuto Cellini, Dante Alighieri, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, George Bernard Shaw, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Wernicke, Julio de Diego, Martin Cooper, Paul Gottfried, Richard Wagner, Shostrakovich, Sylvain Cambreling, The Aenid, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, www.brusselsjournal.com, www.salomon.org.uk
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CASTING LOVE & MYTH
”See what you think when you come down the Strada dei Fiorentini of Florence and spot the Perseus in the corner of the Loggia. If you’ve read Benvenuto Cellini’s book, you must admit you didn´t expect THAT—you didn´t know it … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Rodin, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernini, Bronze Age, Bronze casting, bronze sculpture, doors of San Zeno Verona, Francois Girardon, Marino Marini, Sculpture, Verrochio
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MOLLUSKS & MIGHTY APHRODITE
To the deceptively simple lessons of nature, humankind has turned repeatedly for renewal, self discovery, and a glimpse of their place in the great nature of things. Few creations of the natural world have served so well and widely in … Continue reading
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