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...Italians, represented by Canaletto's scenes of Venice canals, piazzas, and rooftops and Pollaiuolo's Fighting Nudes, the sole drawing attributed to him, exemplify structure and texture as only these mediteranean architects are capable of constructing. Pollaiuolo's awareness of the human anatomy and Canaletto's vision of the Venetian canals and streets are mapped in these exhibited works...
Crackup. Scott's antics exasperated him, once to the point where he banished him from Villa America for three weeks for tossing gold-flecked Venetian wine glasses over the garden wall at a dinner party. When Scott began ostentatiously "studying" the Murphys for his fiction, Sara wrote him: "If you can't take friends largely, and without suspicion, then they are not friends at all. The ability to know what another person feels in a given situation will make-or ruin-lives." But Gerald loved Scott at his best and "the region where his gift came from-when...
Scholars and Thieves. In fact, the trips to Venice did not radically change his style. But they gave him confidence (especially when Giovanni Bellini, the Venetian artist he most admired, became his friend), immeasurably deepened his learnings and supplied him, on the way, with some of his most typical images. His biggest etching, Landscape with the Cannon, sets a turbaned Turk (which Dürer copied from a painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis?the goddess of fortune, bulbous...
...anarchic temperament (to be distinguished from an anarchist politics ). Petri shifts rapidly between shots of rich chaos and those of extremely centralist organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
...Gardner Museum is in fact Mrs. Jack's jewel box with its own Vermeer quality of natural lighting, stone floors, Gothic windows, and Flemish tapestries. The spring flowers that fill the courtyard intertwine with the Venetian stone and grow into ornamented columns. Her museum is a refuge from the noise, the pollution, and the threatening man-made environment today; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, unchanged in all these years, is one brief moment caught from fleeting time...