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...from the sponsoring institutions. The program marks the first partnership between HBS and CEIBS, and the second partnership between HBS and a Chinese institution. For the past five years, HBS has worked with Tsinghua University in Beijing to offer executive education programs. According to Program Co-director Jaume S. Ribera, faculty from the various institutions may have much to learn from each other. “Providing our professors with the opportunity to work with HBS and CEIBS colleagues in a very demanding environment will definitely enhance their understanding of China and the challenges and opportunities that Chinese firms face...
...human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin is a classroom bore. In the last years of his life, Caravaggio drew back from the most dramatic devices...
Jusepe de Ribera was the star of Neapolitan painting...
...some of Ribera's more complex figure arrangements, one seems to be looking at a mechanism of limbs and torsos that have suddenly frozen in mid- action. The models are muscular and, when old, stringy. One is left in no doubt that Ribera found them on the street, in their patched, tatterdemalion clothes, and got them into the studio for a few coppers. In his early Roman allegories of the five senses, The Sense of Smell is a beggar holding up not the flower that was usual in versions of this common subject, but a cut onion, so that tears...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...