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eccentric tastes and watchful wife…
The hidden. The unknowable. The unthinkable. Sir Richard Francis Burton. The first great anti-hero…. As a lieutenant in the British army in India, he had nothing but contempt for his fellow officers who remained aloof and indifferent to the exotic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Captain Sir Richard Burton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman M. Penzer, Rupert Everett, Rupert Everett Captain Sir Richard Burton, Sir Charles Napier, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Richard Burton in India, Thomas Wright biographer, ThomasWright Richard Burton, Walter Phelps Dodge, William Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt Jerusalem
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the coxcombs move on
The late Victorian period for the Royal Academy was really the end , succumbing after a long and chronic respiratory illness. Frith’s The Private View from 1881, showed that the Summer Exhibition could still take a hold on the public, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged benjamin disraeli, Grosvenor Gallery, James McNeil Whistler On the Piano, James McNeill Whistler, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the royal academy, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith, William Powell Frith The Private Room
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conspicuous posturing
The lessons we learn today from Victorian painting are primarily of a documentary order; and the works in question should perhaps not be considered under the heading of painting at all, but rather as adjuncts and auxiliaries of the Victorian … Continue reading
US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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