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manon lescaut: “a veritable leech”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …In any case, the Abbe removed hurriedly from England to Holland … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Prevost, Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut, Claire-Eliane Engel, De Thou Latin history France, Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Frederic Deloffre Sorbonne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manon Lescaut
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tencin: high wire act between rationalism and passion
“My menagerie,” Alexandrine Tencin called her salon; her guests were “mes betes.” Her Tuesdays she filled with good talk, high spirits, and low comedy involving chamber pots and such. Her leisure she filled with literature, the recourse of the bored. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Charlotte Lennox, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Jean-Honore Fragonard, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, Lord Chesterfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Albrecht, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Peter Gay, Regent Fontenelle, Rene Vaillot, Renee Vaillot, Renee Winegarten, Voltaire
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stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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bank heist: meltdown on the Mississippi
It is really a case of the greater fool hypothesis. That is, no matter how high the price of something gets whipped up in speculative frenzy, there are always others who are willing to pay for it. The Mississippi Bubble … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Greater fool hypothesis, James Turk, John Kenneth Gailbraith, John Law banking and finance, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, John Law The System, Joseph Schumpeter, Lady Catherine Senor, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, max keiser, Philippe d'Orleans
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high hopes
Nice to Delta paint paint back on track. At one time it really was “America’s Favorite Craft Paint,” as they slogan on every bottle. It was such a hot commodity at one point and then it just died; sent out … Continue reading
a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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matters of taste and waste
Artistic dependency on money? Art as a cash crop, growing money and not the fertility of artistic endeavor. The effects of urban , cosmopolitan culture on the arts probably stretched back to the Renaissance, but it may have been Watteau … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith
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gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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odd couples
A secret drive to crave disgrace or an insane desire to please? … Louise Mignot, the daughter of Voltaire’s sister, had in 1738 married Monsieur Denis of the Commisariat Department, who died in 1744. Her uncle on the occasion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, bruno h. schubert, Francois Boucher, Frederick the Great, Marquis de Sade, Marquise de Pompadour, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Max Horkheimer, meharit kifle, nell gwynn, sir peter leley, The Duchess of Alba, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hardy, Voltaire
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