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Tag Archives: Giorgio Vasari
the “salai” copy: hold your hand original
Its the Mona Lisa industry. Eventually it will get traced all the way to Neil Armstrong on the moon and the 9-11 attacks. Maybe its the collective occult obsession and the “inside job” is to be found within the sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Salai, Bruno Mottin, Dan Brown, Francesco del Giocondo, Francesco Melzi, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, Giorgio Vasari, Isaac Newton, Jose Ruiz Manero, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Gherardini, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Kemp, Milka Levy-Rubin, Silvano Vincetti
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slow worker
from Giorgio Vasari’s account of Leonardo and his work on the Last Supper, his unconventional disposition, his salesmanship and the perplexing bent of secular humanism which was disconcerting to the defenders of the faith…. He also painted in Milan, for … Continue reading
paranoid spittled walls
This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading
man of the stars and moon: different strokes
What makes Leonardo da Vinci so special? He had all the characteristics that could not match a prospective employment or job description. Vasari called him “variable and unstable”; a man who took interest in learning many things, and then after … Continue reading
closet painter
A “flamboyant homosexual” as Dan Brown labeled Leonardo is misleading and irrelevant unless the author was searching for a DNA code for gay tendencies and not the other trail of splatter leading to the holy grail. Although a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged cynthia fuchs epstein, Da Vinci Burlington House Cartoon, da Vinci London Cartoon, dan brown da vinci code, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio Vasari, Jonathan Jones Guardian, klaus herding, Leo Bersani, Peter Paul Rubens, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud leonardo
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looking for clues: a smile for arcadia
In Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud found similarities between jokes and work of art. Though not known as much of a comic or given to the guffaw, Freud found the humor in the sketch of the … Continue reading
book of hours of the times
He can be seen both as climactic figure of the Middle Ages and as a herald of the Renaissance. The first great realist in French art, he painted with magical perfection in a time of change and disarray. In his … Continue reading
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Tagged Claus Sluter, erik inglis, etienne chevalier, filippo lippi, Giorgio Vasari, Jan van Eyck, jean fouquet, Joan of Arc, Rogier van der Weyden, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sir arthur conan doyle sir nigel, The Book of Hours
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hail mary: the secret language of words
Very contrary about this Mary story. Religion, refugees claimants and hipsters. the congregation is convened. Was there a second sitting for the Last Supper? Can Albrecht Durer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne be termed “religious trivia” within the context … Continue reading
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Tagged adrian humphrey, Albrecht Durer, anna pape IRB, Christopher Hitchens, Dante Alighieri, Ghent Altarpiece, Giorgio Vasari, james frazer the golden bough, Jan van Eyck, Jonathan Jones Guardian, roy buchanan, shelley levine lawyer, Sir james Robert Fraser
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prodigies: pilgrimage to simplicity
The prodigies. Children who know too much. The old sixteenth-century proverb says “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” What makes a prodigy? It seems pretty evident that there is a genetic component to the form … Continue reading
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Tagged akiane kramarik, Albert Einstein, Caravaggio, f.w. westaway, Ginevra de Benci, Giorgio Vasari, kieron williamson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Buber, mi dori, National Gallery of Art Washington, Nicolas Poussin, rudiger gamm, tara lipinski
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