Word: botticelli
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...museum is a place to discover things in," Robbins said yesterday. "The Fogg's responsibility is to make everybody realize that David, Delacroix, Botticelli, and such artists in the museum are fabulous...
...minute ballet is based on several wetly romantic pieces by English Composer Frederick Delius. Where Prokofiev pants, Delius sighs; where the Russian stomps, the Briton floats. Tudor, a pioneer in bringing psychological realism to ballet, matches the soft, antique mood of the score. The gemlike production looks like a Botticelli painting in motion...
Most important, Mann's treatment of the unconsummated affair of man and boy was a metaphor for Europe's decaying society. But Visconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage; with stupid distortion, he makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren...
...single figure of God, seated in a mandorla of angels' wings, the authority of divine gesture was almost lost in the flow of gold drapery. But this incessant undulation of line gives the forms of Mary and Elizabeth a rhythm that rarely appears in such epigrammatic form until Botticelli. Michelino's figures, whether of Christ rising from the tomb or his Disciples laying him in it, are refined to a trance-like stillness; their flesh and robes seem translucent, as if emitting light in a space without shadows...
Other spoils of Berenson's Italian conquests include Raphael's Pieta and a portrait of a Roman Count, a Guardi scene of Venice, Botticelli's Madonna and Child, Giotto's Jesus, Fra Angelico's Assumption, etc. Few museums equal the Gardner's extensive collection of Italian masters. But Berenson was not to stop at conquering Italian walls; sensing Mrs. Jack's interest in a bargain, he induced her to buy Durer, Holbein, Rubens, and Rembrandt...