Word: gothically
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...middle of the 15th century, few cities in Christendom bustled with such prosperity as Mantua, and few princelings patronized the arts so diligently as the Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga. His court painter was Andrea Mantegna. and the walls and ceilings of his grim Gothic castle boasted some of the master's finest work. This week, in that same castle, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi opens an exhibition that should restore...
...ludicrous lapses with brilliant intuitions of the spectral. Taken from a tale (Fry) by Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday tells the story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly...
...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...