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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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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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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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A GOOD SIN TO SOFTEN YOU
In the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare,the Christians of the play universally assume that they’re a nobler species than Jews, but Shylock insists that they’re no more pure than Jews and Jews no less human than Christians.Purity and humanity being … Continue reading
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