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man in the middle
If the Middle Ages was the age of faith, it gave way to what can be described as an age of curiosity. The Renaissance. Facts that things existed no longer was an assurance that it had a place in an … Continue reading
peacocks and goat: hair story
The smart money is always going to be on skimpy clothing and long hair, each generation seeking to reinvent itself; to excite and infuriate for the same reason. And each generation of mothers and fathers, if they reviewed their history, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea del Verrocchio, Atalanta Baglioni, Bernardino di Betto, Book of Tobit, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oddi and Baglioni, Pinturicchio, Pinturicchio paintings, Pope Paul V, raphael paintings, Raphael The Deposition, Rennaisance Perugia, Tiberio Alfani, Treaty of Tolentino
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platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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dragon: fly the friendly skies
Up in smoke. It’s the jeer of the dragon. That charming scaly fellow. In Western iconography, the dragon, generally speaking, is a writhing symbol of evil, even of the Devil himself. But to the Chinese it is a benevolent heavenly … Continue reading
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Tagged chen jung, chen rong, chinese new year, chinese new year 4709, daoist philosophy, don ed hardy, ed hardy, Peter Paul Rubens, raphael paintings, raphello sanzio, Renaissance Art, year of the dragon
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