Tag Archives: Gentile Bellini

the fab four

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dave

Is Occupy Wall Street an authentic movement or just a fad? Or, is the “real” just a metaphor for mass-produced and generic with an expiry date? Can an authentic movement lose its eternal qualities and become a fad? It is … Continue reading →

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poussin: showing your peasant

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dave

As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading →

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THE SINKING OF NARCISSISTIC DELIGHT

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

For a thousand years Venice held “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. The Napoleon saw a bluff- and called it. … Napoleon himself commanded the French armies in Italy. But for five centuries … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alan Miller Venice, Allan Miller Berkshire Review, Elaine Pilkington, Gentile Bellini, Goldoni, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Lord Byron, Mayor Orsoni Venice, Philippe Monnier, Rick Steves, Vittoro Carpaccio, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

MANTEGNA & CULTURAL REVOLUTION: Psychology of Perspective

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dave

After all not to create only, or found only, But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free, To fill the: gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire, Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Sparti, Carola Naumer, Charles Hope, Dan Starling, David Byron, David G. Wilkins, David Landau, David Rosand, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Edward Lucie-Smith, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Gentile Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Bellini, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Jay A. Levinson, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Mantegna, Michael Kimmelman, Michael Vickers, Miriana Ilieva, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, Phyllis Williams Lehman, Rosalind Krauss, Sanford Schwartz, Simon Abrahams, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

PERSPECTIVE ON A VANISHING POINT: THE MATHEMATICS OF OBSESSION

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dave

“It was said of Uccello that the discovery of perspective had so impressed him that he spent nights and days drawing objects in foreshortening, and setting himself ever new problems. His fellow artists used to tell that he was so … Continue reading →

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THE HAREM, THE SULTAN, THE PAINTER, THE EUNICH & HIS LOVER

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

”The pressures of being prince aren’t easy in any royal family, and history is full of eccentric rulers, warped by a childhood spent under a golden thumb. But the stakes in the house of Osman were higher then in any … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged 3 Mustaphas 3, Alev Lytle Croutier, Charles Kimball, curious expeditions.com, Dimitri Cantemi, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jason Goodwin, Kosem sultan, Maypeyker Kosem, Murad III, Ottoman art, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire Art, Queen Elizabeth I, Sultan Ibrahim I, Sultan Selim the Grim, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Turkish History | 1 Comment

AXIS: BOLD AS MARKETING WITH SULTANS, SAINTS, & SINNERS

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Dave

”Which multinational brand has the biggest image problem these days? BP? Toyota? Goldman Sachs? How about Islam? Say what you will about those other entities: They don’t have to deal with the public’s fear of terrorism. Last month, an opinion poll conducted … Continue reading →