Tag Archives: Orsini Gardens Bornazo

GARDEN OF EARTHLY FRIGHTS: Mannerist Playground

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Dave

Despite a lack of evidence, one local tale was that Vicino Orsini was a hunchback who created a garden of monsters in order to persuade his wife, Julia Farnese, that deformity held its own mysterious principles of delight. …Over four … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Bomarzo Garden, Christopher McIntosh, Colin Wilson, Horst Bredekamp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Droucet, Jessie Sheeler, Mannerist Art, Mark Edward Smith, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Salvador dali, Vicino Orsini | Leave a comment

STRANGE MANNERISMS

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Dave

The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading →