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monumental stairs
The monumental. Rome, the grandest of Italian hill towns, has an abundance of stairs unequaled anywhere in the world. A complicated topography, and a populace with an insatiable appetite for pomp, spurred architects to devise panoramic staircases for social and … Continue reading
audubon: illusions of spontaneity
Returning to the original paintings of John James Audubon and not the proliferation of cheap prints, brings us directly back to his highly personal method and approach- and to the most intimate aspects of his artistic labors. On several occasions … Continue reading
audubon:endless proliferation
John James Audubon did not know that no Occidental artist before him had painted bird life on such an heroic scale, or had recorded such animated, informed likenesses of birds in their different habitats. And he felt with growing conviction … Continue reading
upstairs downstairs
To speak of the ups and downs of stairs would sound like punning, had history not left a graphic record of their shifting importance. In the past, stairs always ranked with the noblest elements of architecture. Ascending or descending a … Continue reading
shapes of things to come: right angles
The shape of the Menorah that is used as the symbol of the nation of Israel? It is commonly thought to be curved, and a representative copy of what was to be found in the Second Temple before its destruction. … Continue reading
bruges: frozen when things went fatally wrong
If Bruges had not existed it might have been invented by the Neo-Gothics of the nineteenth century. Its significant paintings are genuinely Pre-Raphaelite, its urban prospects picturesque, and its appeal to the literary mind certain. Nearly all of its architecture … Continue reading
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