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uffizi: arcadia cash n’ carry
Zoffany, in the 1760′s was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to created a canvas that would immortalize the Uffizi, Florence’s major museum, and in particular the Renaissance treasures of the Medici collection. The visit to the Uffizi was a major goal … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Frank Zappa, Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Laura Mulvey, Michael Cooper, Robert Fraser, sir peter blake, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andrew Graham Dixon, Edouard Manet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, John Wolfe, Manet Olympia, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Titian Venus of Urbino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone
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BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE
Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent
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OLYMPIA GAZE: DIRECT AND DEFIANTLY UNACCOMODATING
“On first inspection, one might wonder what all the fuss was about. Manet considered himself a painter of still life, and perhaps that’s why Olympia has such a quiet mystery about her. She lounges serenely, starkly unclad but strategically adorned … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Proust, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Julie Lorenzen, Linda MacDonald, Manet Olympia, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Paul Verlaine, Salon des Réfuses, Salon des Réfuses 1863, Stephane Mallarme, T.J. Clark, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurant
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