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Bernini : once more with oomph and feeling
Bernini. Counter Reformation overstatement…A pitiless unromantic view of death was another Counter Reformation theme. Bernini went to the macabre iconography of the Middle Ages and borrowed the death’s head for his tombs. The skeletons holding an hourglass in the tomb … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini Counter Reformation, Bernini sculpture Rome, Charles de Brosses, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Michelangelo, Pope Alexander VII
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A PARADOX OF CONTRADICTIONS: HERMAPHRODITE WITH A CROWN
She was a woman who wished she was a man; a queen who aspired to be a scholar; a Protestant who turned to Rome; a monarch who loved power but gave up her crown. Such were the paradoxes of Queen … Continue reading
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Tagged Greta Garbo, Jacob Elbfas, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, John Gilbert, Pope Alexander VII, Queen Christina film, Queen Christina Hermaphrodite, Queen Christina of Sweden, Raphael, Sebastien Boudron, Titian
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WHEN IN ROME
Rome, as the freshly abdicated ex-queen Christina saw it on her arrival, was a city in the process of being transformed by the genius of Bernini. Everywhere, churches and palaces were being rebuilt, and handsome piazzas laid out, in all … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Azzolino, Cardinal Mazarin, Charles X of Sweden, Correggio, Decio Azzolino, Duke of Parma, Francis Haskell, Galerie des Cerfs, Joanne mattern, Louis D'orleans, Marquis Monaldesco, Miguel de Molinos, Palazzio Riario, Palazzo Farnese, Paolo Veronese, Pope Alexander VII, Pope Clement IX, Queen Christina of Sweden, Raphael, Scarlatti, Suzanna Akerman, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, Veronese paintings, www.linesandcolors.com, www.windweaver.com
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