Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Friday, May 24, 2019
The scabbard as wardrobe - discretions of the "antique"
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In contemporary and later depictions, ancient Greek warriors were most frequently portrayed as going into battle nearly or entirely nude...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
Sober elegance - eight portraits by Veronese
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Lavinia Vecellio, daughter of the painter Titian, circa 1560. The architect Vincenzo Scamozzi, circa 1585. Portrait of a Wo...
Friday, May 17, 2019
Her "Forgotten Man" - Joan Blondell in the finale to Gold Diggers of 1933
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The best-known of the Gold Diggers series takes a radically serious turn in the final musical number which - in most prints - concludes ...
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Sunday, May 12, 2019
The Orlov brothers - two equestrian portraits by Vigilius Eriksen, circa 1766
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Count Grigori Grigorievich Orlov. The two paintings measure more than thirteen by eleven and a half feet. These portraits by the Danis...
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