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Tag Archives: Marie-Louise O’Murphy
stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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FROM POMPEII to Madame de Pompadour:Games People Play
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Archibald Alison, badarthistory.blogspot, Calouste Gulbenkian, Casanova, Chia Sihan, Claude Lorrain, Cochin, Comte de Caylus, David Watkin, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Gail Leggio, Giacomo Casanova, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Gordon Brown, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Judith Harris, Laurence Sterne, madame de Pompadour, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Nicolas Poussin, O'Murphy, Pliny the Younger, Pompeii Art, Pompeii erotic art, Pompeii statues, Robert Fulford, Sevres Porcelain, Sir William Hamilton, Teresa Cutler, Vincennes porcelain, Wendy Thompson
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