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a country doctor: chasing the maid through the gallery
It is another odd Kafka story: A Country Doctor. And the story of another peculiar fellow: Bernard Berenson. The aesthete and art dealer/pundit of late nineteenth-early twentieth century who promoted and profited from selling Italian Renaissance art to the deep … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Mellon, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Ernest Samuels, Franz Kafka, Giovanni Morelli, isabella stewart gardner, joseph duveen, Kenneth Clark, Kurt Lewin, meryle secrest, Nicky Mariano, Pascal Bruckner, sandor gilman, Sylvia Sprigge
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duchess of alba: seven year fling
At about the time that Goya began work on the “Caprichos” , he also began his famous but always somewhat ambiguous affair with the Duchess of Alba, probably the most vivid figure that her society produced. In 1795 she visited … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, George Romney, John Flaxman, Joshua Reynolds, Kenneth Clark, Liz Hager, Robert Hughes, Rose-Marie Hagen, Sarah Symmons, The Duchess of Alba, Thomas Gainsborough
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the deaf man’s house: paint it black
Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading
3 rd of may: shoot in may and go away
Like all great historical and philosophical themes, analyzing the Third of May is somewhat vulnerable to some superficial and not necessarily valid interpretations. The originality of Goya’s treatment in his depiction of the executioners. Where they might expectedly have be … Continue reading
grim tidings: disasters and masters of war
A preoccupation with mystery, violence and the irrational was always present in Goya’s art. As the years passed, casual observations of the foibles and horrors of the world were transfigured into a vision of life that came to dominate his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, Graeme Mitchell, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Matthew Brady, Meissonier, Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, Trevor Malkinson
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Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason
But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading
viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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an enemy of irrational tendencies
Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Bayeu, Francisco Goya, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Milos Forman, Muriel Julius, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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SEURAT:ANY GIVEN SUNNY AFTERNOON
Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte…. sunlight sailboats, parasols and pets: It is easy to take this cheery summer scene for granted… You may never do so again. In his “Confessions of a Young Man” George Moore … Continue reading
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