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bruegel: too busy for the cosmic rhythm
…The only concept of the nature of things that seems never to have occurred to Bruegel is our objective scientific one by which the cosmos becomes something physically explicable, and hence godless. As for Bruegel’s god, his religious affiliation can … Continue reading
bruegel: cripple creek
At the popular level, Bruegel’s fantastic drolleries are taken at face value. A curious and delightful painter. At his true level, when these obvious charms are recognized as nothing but a pictorial skin, Bruegel is discoverable as an extraordinarily complex … Continue reading
bruegel: human foibles
…A sober philosophy of man’s place in nature… Bruegel’s recognition of human foibles never reduced him to bitterness, or at least never to any discernible in his group. From the mass of it we can deduce that he regarded misanthropy … Continue reading
bernini: double down failure
Bernini’s trip to France was a double failure. Not only was the sculptor unable to impose his artistic views upon the Frenchand at the same time letting his frustration morph into a contempt and endless cycle of provocation and manifestations … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini and Louis XIV, Bernini Sculptures, Claude Perrault architect, Francois Girardon, Janson, Janson History of Art, Jean Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Robert Hughs, Simon Schama
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bernini from sun king to rome
In his fountain design Bernini returned to the Counter Reformation theme of the church triumphant, spreading through four continents , which were represented by personifications of four rivers- the Danube, supporting the papal coat of arms and accompanied by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini and Louis XIV, Bernini fountains, Bernini Piazza Navona, Bernini Sculptures, Bernini St. Peter's, Duc de Crequi ambassasor to papal court, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Paolo Conte, Pope Innocent X, Robert Hughes, Simon Schama, St, St. Peter's Colonnade
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bernini: rockin’ on with the counter reformation
Pope Urban VIII took a fatherly interest in his gifted protege. When Bernini fell ill, the pope visited him twice a day in his palazzo near the Piazza di Spagna and once came with sixteen cardinals, whose collective blessing was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernini, Bernini St. Peter's, Francesco Borromini, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Pope Innocent X, pope Urban VIII, Robert Hughes, Simon Schama
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