Word: sargent
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John Singer Sargent had a singular talent for swathing his portrait subjects in an exotic and provocative mystique...
Installed in four segments between 1895 and 1919, the murals depict what Sargent considered the progress of religious experience through history, a successive falling-away of “external” forms, cult and creed, toward an “internal” spiritual communion...
...project is particularly unique, Pocobene says, due to “the stature of Sargent himself as an artist”—and because “it’s so different from what we usually deal with...
...Sargent’s murals stand out—not only from the frescos of da Vinci and Michaelangelo, but also from more modern works. Unlike his predecessors in the mural tradition, Sargent used a wide range of available media, including gilded statuary and a plethora of other relief materials. Consequently, the Straus Center has had to allocate four or five conservators with differing specialties to the project...
When he painted the murals, Sargent had total decorative control over what is now the library’s Sargent Hall...