Tag Archives: Jean Baptiste Colbert

more unjust desserts: chef with a sword

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Dave

Food need not be a mere necessity of life… …The chef’s lot has often been a hard one. These days, should rice burn or the souffle collapse, there is always something in the freezer. Not so in times past. Jean … Continue reading →

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bernini: esoteric rome

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Dave

After a lumpy and bumpy sojourn in Paris for six months, Bernini had realized that the locus of power had shifted to France; Louis XIV had assumed the mantle of chief patron of the arts as an expression and extension … Continue reading →

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bernini: double down failure

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

Bernini’s trip to France was a double failure. Not only was the sculptor unable to impose his artistic views upon the Frenchand at the same time letting his frustration morph into a contempt and endless cycle of provocation and manifestations … Continue reading →

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bernini: don’t let the sun king go down on him

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

Bernini’s six months at the French court. A total failure. The artist who believed his gifts came from god would inevitably clash with a king who considered himself crowned by god. A collision of two forms of divine right as … Continue reading →

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Bernini:smoothing the bump on the bourbon shnoz

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

With Bernini perhaps the roots of heaven were made of stone. But Bernini and his short sejour in France at the behest of Louis XIV, was something short of heavenly and the divine…. …Nor could Bernini adjust to the customs … Continue reading →

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bernini and the brief french kiss

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

Bernini spent nearly six months at the French court, but except for a marble bust of the king, which had been commissioned as an afterthought, the trip was a failure. It was a foregone conclusion that an artist who believed … Continue reading →

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