Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Wagnerians, the looming, medieval sets of Die Meistersinger have long seemed almost as sacrosanct as the music itself. Of all Wagner's operas, Die Meistersinger was the one deemed least adaptable to modern staging. But, for better or worse, Designer Wieland Wagner decided to refute the purists. Wieland...
By this reasoning, medieval torturers were wasting their time devising complicated machines to mangle their victims. They could have achieved the maximum of pain with the simplest means.
If it had not been for the 15-odd sons of his father, who lived a life of medieval irresponsibility in a crumbling palace just down the road from his own, life might have been close to perfect. But there the brothers were-"those royal drones," as Yadavindra sometimes called...
Because they made no distinction between art and craft, the early pioneer American painters did not lack craftsmanship; each of their canvases was at least as well painted as the wall on which it hung. But by European standards, early colonial art was medieval. Being mostly commoners cut off from...
Captain Thomas Smith is an amazing canvas, for its time and place. Done within a few years of the Gibbs picture, it made the leap from medieval toward renaissance portraiture. The captain, who painted it himself, thought in terms of shapes not pattern, action not stillness, and character not spirit...