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prodigies: pilgrimage to simplicity
The prodigies. Children who know too much. The old sixteenth-century proverb says “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” What makes a prodigy? It seems pretty evident that there is a genetic component to the form … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged akiane kramarik, Albert Einstein, Caravaggio, f.w. westaway, Ginevra de Benci, Giorgio Vasari, kieron williamson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Buber, mi dori, National Gallery of Art Washington, Nicolas Poussin, rudiger gamm, tara lipinski
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PORTRAIT OF A TUG OF WAR
Not every great age produced portraits. The Greeks made almost none, except on their coins, until the time of Alexander the Great, whose legions ranged over the world from India to Egypt. Alexander had his own private portrait artist, the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexander the Great, Augustus John, Cezanne, Claude Manet, Claude Monet, Daguerre, Frederigo da Montefeltro, Graham Sutherland, Ivan Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Joseph E. Widener, Karsh photographs, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lysippus Sculptor, Mrs. Leigh Block, National Gallery of Art Washington, Picasso, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Van Gogh, Velasquez, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Yousef Karsh
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''THIS PASSION WHICH IS LIKE A DISEASE''
About collecting he once told a Soviet negotiator, ”You… are a fortunate man not to have this passion which is like a disease.” He was one of the most mysterious men of his era. He was obsessed with privacy and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Calouste Gulbenkian, Dirck Bouts, Dirck Bouts Dutch-Flemish master, Girolama Genga, Gulbenkian Foundation, Hagop Pasha, Hermitage Museum Leningrad, Holbein Dance of Death, Jean Antoine Houdon, National Gallery of Art Washington, Raphael, Rembrandt
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