Tag Archives: Palma Vecchio

Gardner: build and they will come

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dave

A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading →

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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading →