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...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I'm still eating milletloaf every night...
...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I?m still eating milletloaf every night...
...with the 12th century Cathedral of San Lorenzo and the nearby Chiesa del Gesu, which houses two paintings by Rubens. A major exhibit of paintings and manuscripts, "Travel in Italy: a Magic March from the 1500s to the 1900s," at the Palazzo Ducale through July 29, features works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Tiepolo, Titian and other greats. On Via Garibaldi, you will find both the Palazzo Bianco and the Palazzo Rosso, two museums with excellent collections of Flemish and Dutch paintings...
...Whereas his was "to find form, and to keep it"--by means of pure outline drawing. The villains of his scheme were Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt: "a class of artists, whose whole art is fabricated for the purpose of destroying art." True art was linear, clear, like Raphael, Durer, Michelangelo and antique sculpture--and, Blake didn't hesitate to add, his own. The very thought of Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy and the most esteemed and successful painter in Britain, gave Blake fits: Reynolds was a slopping, daubing Antichrist. "This man," Blake scrawled across the title page...
...watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render the most elevated scenes of Milton and the Bible in the language of Michelangelo and Raphael; in this he was wrong, but what an ambition...