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Caravaggio and a bridge too far
Know your Caravaggio. Scholars have been contesting two exhibit works authenticity that will be appearing at the National Gallery in Ottawa. Two of the eleven canvases pre-certified as original Caravaggios in the planned summer exhibition on the Italian baroque are … Continue reading
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: PSYCHIC INTENSITY OF THE COSMIC OPERA
The earliest reference to Giorgione indicates that he was commissioned to paint frescoes in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (“Guildhouse of the German Merchants”) in Venice in 1508 and that he was aided in this undertaking by the young Titian. Vasari, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Stokes, Alfred Glauser, Anne Christine Junkerman, David Alan Brown, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Elton John, Ernst Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, Harry Trosman, Holberton, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Hale, John Lennon, Joseph Phelan, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Glasmeier, Miles Mathis, Nicholas S. Lander, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, William Shuter, Wolfgang Eller
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SELF EXAMINATION of a LANGUAGE of SIGNS: The Divine Wavelength
The Tempest has been called the first landscape in the history of Western painting. The subject of this painting is unclear, but its artistic mastery is apparent. The Tempest portrays a soldier and a breast-feeding woman on either side of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alexander Roob, Carl Jung, Da Vinci, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Alan Brown, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, John Read, Joseph Phelan, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Mark E. Koltko-Rivera, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Salvatore Settis, Sir Martin Conway, Titian, Vendramin, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater
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PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS
Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Aristotle, Bernard Berenson, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Dr. John Dee, Edgar Wind, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Dee, Kenneth Clark, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Vidal, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Titian, Uffizi, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, Wolfgang Eller
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RHETORIC OF ENIGMA:The Hidden Subject
Giorgione is counted among the world’s great painters, even though only a handful of paintings are certified as certain to be uniquely attributed to him. The “Tempesta” is his most famous work, but its meaning is still unclear. The enigmatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Bengt Gustafsson, Bernard Berenson, Contarini, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Edouard Manet, Ernst Gombrich, Fred Kleiner, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Jacopo Sannazzaro, James Elkins, John Ruskin, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Peter Meller, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Sigmund Freud, Susan Benford, Titian, Walter Pater
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Tempesta: enigma of of visual poetry
It is a rhetoric of enigma and the art of indeterminacy. Behind this curtain is a paradox of narrative mystification. Giorgione is the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists- but only a handful of paintings … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Baldassare Castiglione, Christopher S. Wood, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Ernst Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, James Elkins, John Keats, Julia Luisa Abramson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maurizio Calvesi, Michelangelo, Raphael, Taddeo Contarini, Vasari Lives
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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …
… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, David Landau, E.H. Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, John Michael Greer, John Ruskin, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Dummet, Michael Kimmelman, Peter Burke, Rafael T. Prinke, Robert Hughes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Suzanne Boorsch, Thomas Aquinas, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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MANTEGNA’S PERSPECTIVE of DISTORTION: Between the Sinister and Mysterious
The most devoted lovers of Florentine art complain that as a stylist Mantegna lacks the breath and freedom and, as an expressive artist, the human warmth that the Tuscans offer. They cannot see that Mantegna’s rejection of movement and fluidity … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, Carola Naumer, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Flavius Josephus, Giorgio Vasari, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, John Michael Greer, Joseph Flavius, Keith Christiansen, Keith Christianson, Mantega Tarot, Mantegna, Michael Dummet, Paul Kristeller, Rafael T. Prinke, Robert Hughes, Vasari
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