Tag Archives: Madame du Barry

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 →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Barbara Cartland, Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edgar Degas, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacopo da Pontormo, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lisa MacDonald, Louis XIV, madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry, Marquise de Pompadour, Mary Vidal, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, Rigaud Louis XIV, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

STAG PARTY: DEPRAVITY, DEBAUCHERY & DEER

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Dave

“The late autumn sun laid a radiant haze over the new sodded winter grass of the lawn, and even in the woods the sun shone through places where the leaves were not so dense, to make fiery golden patterns on … Continue reading →