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Bernini : once more with oomph and feeling
Bernini. Counter Reformation overstatement…A pitiless unromantic view of death was another Counter Reformation theme. Bernini went to the macabre iconography of the Middle Ages and borrowed the death’s head for his tombs. The skeletons holding an hourglass in the tomb … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini Counter Reformation, Bernini sculpture Rome, Charles de Brosses, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Michelangelo, Pope Alexander VII
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Bernini and transverberation: a striking through
Bernini kept undisputed control over artistic life in Rome for more than half a century. Behold the roots of heaven. They may be made of stone… …He even managed to put sensuousness at the service of the church. Discerning tourists … Continue reading
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Tagged Altieri Chapel, Bernini, Bernini Counter Reformation, Bernini Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Catholic Counter Reformation, Chales De Brosses, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Saint Theresa Cornaro Chapel, Sigmund Freud
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war against the arts
Frank Lloyd Wright grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. A lifetime of this mindset gave rise to a predictable and inevitable final result: The Guggenheim museum, a museum that defeats the … Continue reading