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Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color...
Christina befriended the Italian sculptor Bernini, set up her own art center in 1674 called the Accademia degli Arcadi in imitation of classical antiquity, and stocked it with a museum of oils, many of which she had brought as baggage. Her Palazzo Riario near the Vatican became a "stopping place for every prominent and noble art lover of the age. While they proclaimed the era "il seicento de Cristina" she peeked and listened through a window concealed in the ceiling of her painting gallery. And when she died at the age of 61, Pope Innocent XI broke precedent by having...
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