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Tag Archives: Dominique-Vivant Denon
cairo: flights into egypt
Sensationalism.The aesthetic of violence in the Society of the Spectacle. The birth of the agitated space and a relishing of absurd charismatic appeal. Art, like the society around it, became caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, darcy grimaldo grigsby, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Edward Said, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Baptiste Regnault, joachim beuckelaer, john frederick lewis, Louis Sass, martin kramer, Robert Rosenblum, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Suzi Gablik, sylvain bellenger
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FROM POMPEII to Madame de Pompadour:Games People Play
When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as a host of luxury villas overlooking the Bay of Naples. That ancient tragedy was a gift to the modern world: the … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, badarthistory.blogspot, Calouste Gulbenkian, Casanova, Chia Sihan, Claude Lorrain, Cochin, Comte de Caylus, David Watkin, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Gail Leggio, Giacomo Casanova, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Gordon Brown, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Judith Harris, Laurence Sterne, madame de Pompadour, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Nicolas Poussin, O'Murphy, Pliny the Younger, Pompeii Art, Pompeii erotic art, Pompeii statues, Robert Fulford, Sevres Porcelain, Sir William Hamilton, Teresa Cutler, Vincennes porcelain, Wendy Thompson
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