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Tag Archives: John Ruskin
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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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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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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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH
Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Charles Nodier, Donald Kuspit, Donizetti, E.H. Gombrich, Erich Fromm, Ernst Gombrich, Etienne-Jean Georget, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Holderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jacques-Louis David, John Milton, John Ruskin, Louis Sass, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Nikolaus Lenau, Rembrandt, Robert Schumann, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Simon Schama, Soren Kierkegaard, Suzi Gablik, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Victor Hugo, William Blake
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INFIDELS: MADNESS,MYTH & MISTAKEN IDENTITY
There is in the “mythology of madness” the oft repeated story of radical therapy effect by Phillipe Pinel when he released the madmen and madwomen from their chains in Bicetre and Salpetriere hospitals in Paris in 1794. Pinel’s freeing of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Sandler, Carol Armstrong, David Baddiel, Geraldine Harris, Hilton Als, Howard Jacobson, Issandr El Amrani, James Walton, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Josh Appignnanesi, Lorna Simpson, Michelle Leight, Omid Djalili, Philipe Pinel, Richard Schiff, Rick Groen, Sarah Peters, The Infidel David Baddiel, The Infidel Movie, William G. Roy
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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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SELF DOUBTS OF A RELENTLESS PERFECTIONIST
The similarity in the approaches to landscape taken by the geographer and the landscape painter have been acknowledged since the first half of the nineteenth century. Both are committed to developing coherent descriptions of he surface of the earth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lyles, David Watts, J.T. Smith, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, K. Paul Johnson, London Royal Academy of Arts, Marion Maneker, Martin Gayford, Michael Kitson, Monty English, Paul Johnson, Peter Paul Rubens, Roger Fry, Ronald Rees, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Wordsworth
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