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Tag Archives: Fellini La Dolce Vita
petronius redux
Petronius’s Satyricon and Fellini’s film version. Two versions of a pagan world as it was in Nero’s time and may be in ours… For Fellini, Satyricon is not crude melodrama or pure fantasy, but a view of paganism as it … Continue reading
spouts and surges
Dripping gods and goddesses and fountains as royal status symbols… The principles of Andre Le Notre and Francois and Pierre de Francine were carried to England in 1712 in a curious and amusing book, The Theory and Practice of Gardening, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andre Le Notre, Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday, Caserta Naples, Charles III of Naples, Dezallier d'Argenville, Fellini La Dolce Vita, Fountain of Trevi Rome, Francois de Francine, Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, John James gardening, Luigi and Carlo Vanvitelli, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicola Salvi, peter the great, Peter the Great Peterhof summer palace, Peterhof summer palace, Pierre de Francine
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