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free people in paris
First, Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Ernest Hemingway too his lusty appetites. James described his countrymen as noxious exports, vocal and clannish. Experimentation and the permissive culture of France had replaced Italy as the point … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Gould, Bernard Berenson, Ellen Day Hale, erica e. hirshler, Henry James, Santayana
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a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery
It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Mellon, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Ernest Samuels, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, isabella stewart gardner, joseph duveen, Kenneth Clark, Kurt Lewin, meryle secrest, Nicky Mariano, Pascal Bruckner, sandor gilman, Sylvia Sprigge
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platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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sweep out the ashes
Eccentric she was.A black sheep never quite accepted by Boston’s first families. Quirky. An only in America original. She had edge, she had flash; a dashing individualist Isabella Stewart Gardner “Mrs. Jack” startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, Cleveland Amory, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter biographer, Nellie Melba
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Money is the sixth sense
Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Edith Wharton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gentile Bellini, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John L. Sullivan, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter
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canvas and the pound of flesh
The rape of Europa by Titian is probably the most celebrated painting in the collection of Old Masters assembled by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the turn of the last century. It hangs, all 70×80 inches of it, in a heavy … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Berenson, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Otto Gutekunst, Robert Hughes, Sir Joseph Duveen, Titian The Rape of Europa
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lost highway: back to the city of the patriarchs
The self-hater. it has nothing to do with Gunter Grass’s stupid poem. His meta argument that its not the state its the government, is hoary socialist cant from the left; a socialist attacking Zionism is a family squabble at best. … Continue reading
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Tagged anna freud, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Burros, Frank Collin, Franz Kafka, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Hebron, Gilbert Frankeau, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hebron expulsion, Hebron Passover 2012, Lucian Freud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Noam Arnon, Slavoj Zizek, T.S. Eliot, The Groggers, William Loeb, Zionism Origins
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Gardner: build and they will come
A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gentile Bellini, Isabela Stewart gardner, jack gardner, Lionello Venturi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter, Palma Vecchio, Philip Hendy, Sando Botticelli
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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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