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butch cassidy goes to piedmont
A rarity. At least at the time, one of the first media celebrities, a kind of royalty of image and talent. They all get discarded eventually as each new generation creates their gods. But Garibaldi is enduring; his manner of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Arthur Rimbaud, Atheism, garibaldi, giuseppe garibaldi, giuseppi mazzini, james bond archetype, Lord Nelson, lucy riall, Pope Pius IX, Romantic Age, rory carroll, Saint Simon, sylvestro lega
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A salty dog: avoiding the press gang
In the end, although Napoleon’s ambitions were terminated on the field of Waterloo, the struggle at sea decided the issue and determined the course of the century that was to follow. As with Carthage and Rome, it was a struggle … Continue reading
PASSION FOR POMPEII: “RANDY FOR ANTIQUE”
It was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Pompeii. When the ruins came to light, beginning in 1747, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure , and leaving a deposit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Benjamin West, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Greville, Christopher C. Parslow, Claude Lorrain, Dr. Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eleanor Coade, Emma Hamilton, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Goethe, Goethe Italy, Horace Walpole, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, John Flaxman, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgewood, Josiah Wedgwood, Judith Harris, Karl Weber Pompeii, Lord Nelson, Matthew Boulton, Nicolas Poussin, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Richard West, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Fulford, Sir William Hamilton, The Grand Tour, Thomas Gray, William S. Anderson
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Antique Eurythmics: “TABLEAU VIVANTS” at POMPEII
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi; although what sometimes passed for “classical” would … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Charles Greville, Claude Lorrain, Cochin, Comte de Caylus, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Goethe, Horace Walpole, Horatio Nelson, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Addison, Joshua Reynolds, Lord Nelson, Lord Pembroke, Pompeii, Pompeii Art, Pompeii frescoes, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Revett, Richard West, Thomas Gray, Vivien Leigh
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