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country living: size and surprise

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Dave

The noble houses of eighteenth century England… …To most visitors it is a strange unreal world that opens before their eyes, and questions crowd in. Are the 365 rooms at Knole in Kent really necessary even for a duke? Two … Continue reading →

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EYE CANDY FOR THE RULING CLASS: “Les Caresses Dangereuses”

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Dave

“Later, during the Renaissance, the mad were displayed in cages set up in the streets, or were visible through the bars on the windows of their cells in the as yet unreformed asylums. In fact, up until the early nineteenth century, Foucault tells us, … Continue reading →

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UNWRITTEN CONFESSIONS: THEATRE and PLAY of EXPECTATIONS

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

Rococo was the elegant and cynical expression of the ideas of the eighteenth-century.In the twentieth century, art historians use Rococo to designate the art of the eighteenth century, mainly in France, and characterized what could be termed ”fun of out-of-place … Continue reading →

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FROM POMPEII to Madame de Pompadour:Games People Play

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Dave

When the volcano Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, it destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as a host of luxury villas overlooking the Bay of Naples. That ancient tragedy was a gift to the modern world: the … Continue reading →

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FORBIDDEN WORLD:IN THE SHADOW OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dave

The forbidden world of Watteau. The witness of a life he could not share; one of France’s greatest painters transformed reality into the most poetic and lyrical visions in the history of art…. “This artist who said hardly anything about … Continue reading →

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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Dave

Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading →