Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term Romanesque lacks neatness and precision: it has been applied to almost everything that happened in art between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Gothic cathedral. Scholars disagree about the exact origins of the style: its roots go variously to ancient Rome, to the art of the barbarians, to Byzantium, and to the palaces of the Moors. But for all its diversity, it had one central inspiration. Over 900 years ago, commenting on the surge of building that had swept over Europe, a monk named Glabro said: "It is as if the world, shaking itself...
Died. Lionello Venturi, 76, Italy's goateed, golf-fancying master art critic, who wrote with equal enthusiasm of Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca, believed in endless creative evolution ("To paint Gothic in 1400 in Florence was wonderful, but those still painting Gothic in 1450 were poor painters"); of a heart attack; in Rome...
...Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice in an exhibition designed to remove the stigma from Crivelli. The works, many of them panels from polyptychs...
...Benjamin Britten was over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
...sets, by Jac Venza, tried to be terribly Gothic, but only managed to look faintly dismal...