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fire sale
Yes, the complete Roman empire was once set on the auction block. Including Rome itself, the eternal city at the height of its glory. Yes, everything from Araby to Aragon. A very impressive piece of real estate indeed. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Nero, Laetus Praetorian Guards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcia execution by Julianus, Pertinax, Praetorian Guards, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus Roman Historian, Thomas Couture
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Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS
In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Beth Archer Brombert, Camille Mauclair, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, George Heard Hamilton, George T. Noszlopy, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, Julie Lorenzen, Kate Flint, Manet Olympia, Marcelin Desboutin, Monty English, Pater the Dutchman, Philbert Louis Debucourt, Stephane Mallarme, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Victorine Meurent
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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?
He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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