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Tag Archives: Alessandro Botticelli
stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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Gardner: build and they will come
A bowl of fresh violets, Isabella Stewart Gardner’s favorite flower, in accordance with her custom, is kept besode her favorite painting- a somewhat effeminate Christ Carrying the Cross which she bought as a Giorgione despite Bernard Berenson’s advice: “unquestionably genuine… … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gentile Bellini, Isabela Stewart gardner, jack gardner, Lionello Venturi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter, Palma Vecchio, Philip Hendy, Sando Botticelli
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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth
It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Allan Chong Gardner, Anthony Van Dyck, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, Bindo Altoviti, boticelli, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Edgar Degas, Fra Angelico, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, Morris Carter, Simone Martini, Villa Livia Rome
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the living clocks: navigation by the sun
Does the season go off inside of us, like a ringing in the blood? People have always associated the burgeoning of spring with the coming of warmer weather; the spring warmth, we feel, has roused the earth from dormancy. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Diego Velazquez, Edmund Spenser, gustav kramer, harry allard, James Thurber, Jan Brueghel, jan brueghel the elder, philip Stubbs, Sandro Botticelli, wightman garner
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abberations from the ideal form
The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Phillips, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Durer, Alessandro Botticelli, Beckmann, Donald Kuspit, George Grosz, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Intimate Strangers 2004, Jean Paul Sartre, Leo Bersani, Lucas Cranach, Matthias Grunewald, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Patrice Leconte, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sigmund Freud
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IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alessandro Botticelli, Arthur Koestler, Avi Solomon, Beethoven, Brian Eno, Carl Jung, David Appelbaum, Erich Maria Rilke, Franz Liszt, Fritz Peters, G.I. Gurdjieff, Geoff Olson, George L. Beke, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Henry Miller, Ilya Kotz, Jean Toomer, John Allen Watts, Josef Danhauser, Katherine Mansfield, Kathryn Hulme, Keith Jarrett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Byron, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Orage, Otto Gonzalez, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Robert Fripp, Sandro Botticelli, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Victor Hugo, William Patrick Patterson
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WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO: FEEDING ON THE TRUTH?
Bergman’s “Persona” is a dark a beautiful film that deals ultimately with heroism; an uncommon theme in our time. “As Kelly Oliver writes, alluding to the enigmatic opening sequence with its images of sacrifice, vampirism, crucifixion and death, “in their … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, August Strindberg, Bach, Bibi Andersson, Caravaggio, Carl Jung, Daniel Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Jeff Pearlman, John William Waterhouse, Kelly Oliver, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Narcissism, Sheila O'Malley, Sigmund Freud, Strindberg, Swedish Cinema
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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