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Gardner: drawn as if by lightning
A dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” Gardner startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In buying old masters, Mrs. Gardner was a generation ahead of tycoons … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Carlo Crivelli, Fenway Court Boston, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum heist, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Henry Clay Frick art collection, isabella stewart gardner, Isabelle Stewart Gardner, isabelle stewart gardner museum, James McNeill Whistler, James Whitey Bulger, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Perseus-Andromeda legend, Saint George Medieval Knight
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the committments
Modernism in art had the tendency to idealize form at the expense of the human and communal. What of those who resisted? Do what extent can a respect for the human experience give an aesthetic strength to resist submerging itself … Continue reading
PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS
Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Aristotle, Bernard Berenson, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Dr. John Dee, Edgar Wind, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Dee, Kenneth Clark, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Vidal, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Titian, Uffizi, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, Wolfgang Eller
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RHETORIC OF ENIGMA:The Hidden Subject
Giorgione is counted among the world’s great painters, even though only a handful of paintings are certified as certain to be uniquely attributed to him. The “Tempesta” is his most famous work, but its meaning is still unclear. The enigmatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Bengt Gustafsson, Bernard Berenson, Contarini, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Edouard Manet, Ernst Gombrich, Fred Kleiner, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Jacopo Sannazzaro, James Elkins, John Ruskin, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Peter Meller, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Sigmund Freud, Susan Benford, Titian, Walter Pater
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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …
… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, David Landau, E.H. Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, John Michael Greer, John Ruskin, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Dummet, Michael Kimmelman, Peter Burke, Rafael T. Prinke, Robert Hughes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Suzanne Boorsch, Thomas Aquinas, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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