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...painters of the mid-19th century, like Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, or the more recent vision of Monet and the Impressionists. Corot's career began in the 1820s, at a time when classical landscape--the ideal scene with temples, ruins and mellow boscage, populated by figures out of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas Poussin and Lorrain, were French, and their work still cast a long shadow. But it existed alongside a newer appetite for natural vision, the direct recording of the facts of landscape...
...part one of Morning in the Burned House, have become a kind of ghost town from which they can't--and don't necessarily want-to escape. God isn't exactly dead, but He seems to be on permanent leave. One is reminded of Geoffrey Hill's pithy "Ovid in the Third Reich": "God is distant, difficult/Things happen...
...pictures don't reach out across 3 1/2 centuries to diddle your heartstrings. His imagery springs from qualities of feeling and modes of thought that are now almost extinct: educated piety, allegory and complete familiarity not only with the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics from Homer to Ovid, Horace and Plutarch, but also with their Renaissance descendants, such as Tasso...
Over the board, Short does not display the sort of crass aggressiveness with which Kasparov intimidates his opponents. He is cool and controlled, though under pressure he may fidget like an Oxford don struggling for the right translation of an Ovid couplet. But behind this outer tranquillity, he plots his opponent's destruction. After all, this is a man who once described chess as mental boxing...
...There was a feeling of patriotism in the air and almost all my friends and I felt we would serve when the time came because it was the patriotic thing to do," says Richmond N. Hutchins, a retired Episcopal member of the clergy residing in Ovid...