Tag Archives: Lionello Venturi

Gardner: build and they will come

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dave

A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gentile Bellini, Isabela Stewart gardner, jack gardner, Lionello Venturi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter, Palma Vecchio, Philip Hendy, Sando Botticelli | Leave a comment

AS SURREAL AS YOU CAN FEEL:Wrong Moon Fever

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Dave

Barking up the wrong moon? It would be more exact to say that through surrealism, Joan Miro discovered himself. It was as if he suddenly had heard spoken aloud the thoughts he had not even dared to formulate in silence. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Andre masson, Donald Kuspit, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Lionello Venturi, Louis Aragon, Marc Chagall, Nick Drake, Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, Rosalind Krauss, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism | Leave a comment

UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading →