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giorgione: family feud
This is a letter from Michael White on Giorgione. Its a very impressive interpretation on an artist who has confounded the experts; the secrecy and enigma surrounding the works such as Tempesta which revolves around an eternal triangle of love, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged george martin richter, giorgio gasparini, Giorgione Artist, giorgione tempest, giovanni gasparini, Jonathan Jones Guardian, renata segre, renata segre giorgioni, richter giorgione, Salvatore Settis, sergio zorzon, Sigmund Freud, theodore k. rabb, thomas kabdebo, Walter Pater
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uffizi: arcadia cash n’ carry
Zoffany, in the 1760’s was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to created a canvas that would immortalize the Uffizi, Florence’s major museum, and in particular the Renaissance treasures of the Medici collection. The visit to the Uffizi was a major goal … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Frank Zappa, Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Laura Mulvey, Michael Cooper, Robert Fraser, sir peter blake, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: PSYCHIC INTENSITY OF THE COSMIC OPERA
The earliest reference to Giorgione indicates that he was commissioned to paint frescoes in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (“Guildhouse of the German Merchants”) in Venice in 1508 and that he was aided in this undertaking by the young Titian. Vasari, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Stokes, Alfred Glauser, Anne Christine Junkerman, David Alan Brown, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Elton John, Ernst Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, Harry Trosman, Holberton, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Hale, John Lennon, Joseph Phelan, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Glasmeier, Miles Mathis, Nicholas S. Lander, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, William Shuter, Wolfgang Eller
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SELF EXAMINATION of a LANGUAGE of SIGNS: The Divine Wavelength
The Tempest has been called the first landscape in the history of Western painting. The subject of this painting is unclear, but its artistic mastery is apparent. The Tempest portrays a soldier and a breast-feeding woman on either side of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alexander Roob, Carl Jung, Da Vinci, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Alan Brown, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, John Read, Joseph Phelan, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Mark E. Koltko-Rivera, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Salvatore Settis, Sir Martin Conway, Titian, Vendramin, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater
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PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS
Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Aristotle, Bernard Berenson, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Dr. John Dee, Edgar Wind, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Dee, Kenneth Clark, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Vidal, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Titian, Uffizi, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, Wolfgang Eller
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RHETORIC OF ENIGMA:The Hidden Subject
Giorgione is counted among the world’s great painters, even though only a handful of paintings are certified as certain to be uniquely attributed to him. The “Tempesta” is his most famous work, but its meaning is still unclear. The enigmatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Bengt Gustafsson, Bernard Berenson, Contarini, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Edouard Manet, Ernst Gombrich, Fred Kleiner, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Jacopo Sannazzaro, James Elkins, John Ruskin, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Peter Meller, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Sigmund Freud, Susan Benford, Titian, Walter Pater
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IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE
Jean Antoine Watteau( 1684-1721) was thirty-three when he painted “Embarkation” . Two years later in 1719 he went to London to sonsult Dr. Richard mead, the queen’s physician, and was there subjected to such treatment as the best medical knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Crozat, Auguste Renoir, Calvin Seerveld, Camille Mauclair, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Frederic Chopin, Georgia Cowart, Helene Adhemar, Jakob Rosenberg, James Panero, Jean Baptiste Francois Pater, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Kit Andrews, Lancret, Lisa MacDonald, Martha Rosler, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolas Lancret, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, R.H. Wilenski, René Huyghe, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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