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women and what men really want
One argument that will never be satisfactorily resolved concerns the rival claims of nature and nurture as cause for villainy. Are villains, like poets, born and not made? Nature and nurture must both have a part to play, and there … Continue reading
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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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LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Holden, Carlos Saura, Charles McGrath, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Jason Anderson, Joan Acocella, Jonathon Keats, Joseph Losey, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Megan Marshall, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Paj Sandhu, Peter Shaffer, Rodney Bolt, Samuel Morse, Sheila Hodges, Susan W. Bowen, Vittorio Storaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yves Klein
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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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TOTAL RECALL:HAUNTED BY REJECTION
”First, the bedpost notches: let’s get them out of the way. In his History of My Life. Casanova records sexual experiences with well over a hundred women – 122 to 136, depending on how one computes certain group and semi-consummated … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Karloff, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Giacomo Casanova, Guy Dammann, Henry Fielding, Ian Kelly, Ian kelly Guardian, James Boswell, James Gillray, John Wilkes, Judith Summers, Kitty Fisher, Lydia Flem, Marquis de Sade, Moll Flanders, Sally Salisbury, Samuel Johnson, Susan Swan, Tennyson, Val Lewton, William Hickey, William Hogarth
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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A WASP
”Destined for a high-flown career in the church, he was inducted as a novice priest and introduced to the most influential people in the city, but the pleasures of Venice assailed him at every turn, and, as he later admitted, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ange Goudar, Arthur Symons, Bernard de Fontenelle, Carlo Goldoni, Casanova, Fanny Hill, Giacomo Casanova, Hester Booth, Judith Summers, Lydia Flem, Marianne Charpillon, Susan Swan, Voltaire, William Hogarth, Zanetta Casanova
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CUNNING CUPID: 116 to 134 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
“…when he had conquered well, the women were the true winners, for he devoted himself to our pleasure with the intensity of a vocation. Indeed he believed fervently in female pleasure, thinking it greater than his own.” ( M.R. Lovric … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Volkoff, Andrei Codrescu, Andrew Miller, Arthur Symons, Bernardino Zapponi, Carlo Goldoni, Casanova David Tennant, Casanova Syndrome, Frederico Fellini, Giacomo Casanova, Heath Ledger, Hieronymous Bosch, Judith Summers, Lydia Flem, M.R. Lovric, Marianne Charpillon, Paul Simon, Robert Dessaix, Susan Swan
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