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First, Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Ernest Hemingway too his lusty appetites. James described his countrymen as noxious exports, vocal and clannish. Experimentation and the permissive culture of France had replaced Italy as the point … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Gould, Bernard Berenson, Ellen Day Hale, erica e. hirshler, Henry James, Santayana
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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
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Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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ambassadors for the innocents
Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities and Hemingway took his lusty appetites in the tradition of Mark twain and his Innocents abroad, an enduring myth from the perch of American cultural and moral superiority, a sort of purity … Continue reading
out of the nest: innocence abroad
Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities, and later Hemingway took his lusty appetites; today the idea of innocence abroad lingers but tenuously, as the rejection of home… The American emigre movement to Europe had its beginnings in the … Continue reading
evil:designed to last
The existence of villainy in a world under divine supervision is an issue which has long troubled humanity. In terms of literature and the arts, the presence of the serpent in the Garden of Eden was an unqualified and unmixed … Continue reading
can’t find the switch of the light of good
What is evil? A question that has been a source of much reflection over time. Certainly, the connection between the law and morality is always tenuous and much villainy is perfectly legal. In fact, the existence of evil in a … Continue reading
platonic painter and patron
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings
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Money is the sixth sense
Isabella Stewart Gardner was certainly no prude. She liked to tell risque jokes in public, and she did her best to shake up, startle, and rattle staid old Boston society. Her pleasure dome in the Back Bay filled with masterpieces … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anders Zorn, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Edith Wharton, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gentile Bellini, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John L. Sullivan, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morris Carter
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mrs. jack: Old Masters and young men
She was a dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” as she was called, startled Boston high society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. Venetian lions guard the entrance, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anders Zorn, Edgar Degas, Fenway Court, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Harvard Fogg Museum of Art, Hendy rankings museums, Henry James, isabelle stewart gardner museum, John L. Gardner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rembrandt the galley, Stephen Kurkjian, The Gardner Heist, Toscanini, Ulrich Boser, Vermeer The Concert
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mid life crisis: faulty time machine
Shapes of things. Fabian socialism. Martians sucking blood from humans for nourishment. H.G. Wells emergence as a novelist proper belongs to the period between the turn of the century and the end of its first decade, when he was able … Continue reading