Word: manneredness
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The Square also has its share of specialty bookstores. Wedged next to Harvard Book-store is Grolier Books, which specializes in poetry. A tiny store crammed to the top of its high walls with poetry books, Grolier is also well-known for its mascot of sorts, a sad-looking, mild...
By contrast, Canova's drawings were usually mannered, and his paintings of dancers and mythological scenes are so overstyled that they look absurdly effete. Canova's imagination needed the resistance of solid material and got it, especially, from marble.
Not everything Canova did was on this level; how could it have been? He was an extremely fashionable artist, and he paid the price of fashion: his superrefined style slid into mannered performance and self-repetition, abundantly represented in the Museo Correr by a gallery of ideal heads. No matter...
In the bucolic Sussex countryside south of London, there's a farm where pheasants and peacocks roam wild. The yard is dotted with cows and chickens, horses and sheep, even reindeer. The owner designed the circular house himself. He built the chicken coops too. His wife is noted for her...
WHAT A CAREER. TENOR PLACIDO DOMINGO has made 79 opera recordings, and his repertory encompasses Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Puccini, as well as French and Spanish opera. Pavarotti may rival him in vocal beauty, but no singer today is as versatile. So when Deutsche Grammophon set out to recap his...