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Despite her dreaded Expos experience, Jaffe realized by her senior year at Harvard—and then later when she was composing her dissertation in Venice??that she had a passion for writing. Furthermore, the romantic genre that she quickly fell into gave her the chance to use the plethora of vocabulary Jaffe didn’t get to use on her thesis...
...wholly inappropriate for this film. Her seriousness jars with the farcical acting of her co-stars. There is no place for depression in the frivolous romp that the film claims to be. Additionally, two of the other lead characters, Robert Windemere (Mark Umbers, “The Merchant of Venice??) and the wonderfully named Lord Darlington (Stephen Cambell Moore, “Bright Young Things”), are so instantly forgettable that it is lucky that few of the important plot twists lie in their hands. The movie does, however, have a few saving graces. Tom Wilkinson...
...Merchant of Venice??in which a Jewish moneylender seeks retribution against oppressive Venetian society through the law, the only resource available to him, only to be trounced and condemned to Christian conversion by a supposedly impartial judge—has elicited extraordinarily varied critical and dramatic interpretations over the past century. Shakespeare wrote the play as a comedy, compelling some critics to categorize it as anti-Semitic, particularly in the heightened awareness of post-Holocaust scholarship...
...diamond-shaped canvases with a dense, rich red paint. Shades of yellow underpainting shine through the red pigments in spots, making his canvasses positively luminous. The Cathedral of Padre Pio rejected Richter’s works as being too abstract, but the Cathedral’s loss is Venice??s gain. When viewed in tandem with Titian’s Assunta—located in the nearby Friary—Richter’s Rhomba appears as the abstract embodiment of a truly divine light...
...Sacred and Profane Visions of Renaissance Venice?? not only brings together the giants of Italian Renaissance or merely juxtapose ordinary landscape drawings with sacred imagery. By combining different media and different contexts, by subtly revealing the relationships and progression of religious paintings, the exhibit interests as well as educates. Better yet—it is but a mere walk away...