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berenson: such a deal
The whole thing was a scandal. Authenticating Old Master art, inflating the price, actig for the buyer and making commission as a seller. But there behavior probably reflected the same values and mannerisms of the wealthy industrial class they were … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Erwin Panofsky, Fosco Maraini, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, joseph duveen, Leo Nardus, Lord Allendale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meryle secrest, Morellian, P.A.B. Widener, Raphael, Richard Offner, Robert Langton Douglas, Roger Fry, Sir Charles Holmes, Wilhelm von Bode
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tendencies that ought to be conflicting
In Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the snobbish Mme de Cambremer at one point exclaims, ” In heaven’s name, after a painter like Monet, who is an absolute genius, don’t go an mention an old hack without a vestige … Continue reading
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Tagged Corot, Eugene Delacroix, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Georges Rouault, Jacques Lemercier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Constable, Marcel Proust, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Scarron, Peter Paul Rubens, Piet Mondrian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Simon Vouet
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luther: black market of indulgences
Last summer 800 three foot high statuettes of sixteenth-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther popped up in the town square of Wittenberg in Eastern Germany. The red, green, blue and black figurines are the work of artist Ottmar Hoerl and were … Continue reading
fiddler on a hot church roof
Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James
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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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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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Tempesta: enigma of of visual poetry
It is a rhetoric of enigma and the art of indeterminacy. Behind this curtain is a paradox of narrative mystification. Giorgione is the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists- but only a handful of paintings … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Baldassare Castiglione, Christopher S. Wood, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Ernst Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, James Elkins, John Keats, Julia Luisa Abramson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maurizio Calvesi, Michelangelo, Raphael, Taddeo Contarini, Vasari Lives
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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
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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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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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