Inner Surfaces – Resonances in art and culture
Essays and articles from the Blog
Titles: Tradition and Transformation: Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne (c. 1655–60) – Irreversible Consequences: Mancini and Manet – “The Sublime Heights of Laurels and of Parnassus”: Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (1581–1641) – Francesco Lojacono and the Changing Vision of Sicily – Dosso Dossi (1486?-1542): Apollo, Fantasia and Form – Giacinto Gigante (1806 to 1876): landscape regenerated from within – Anton Sminck Van Pitloo (1790–1837): Between Rome, Naples, and Northern Europe – Giuseppe De Nittis: Light, Air and Modern Life – Light, colour and the vitality of motion: Introducing the world of Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929) – Gemito and Mathilde Duffaud: ‘Not Made for Financial Gain’ – Antonio Mancini – Hunger and Fame (la fame e la fama) – Giuseppe Casciaro (1861-1941)-an introduction with context.
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The Articles
Tradition and Transformation: Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne (c. 1655–60).
Diego Velázquez, Las Hilanderas (The Spinners, or The Fable of Arachne), c. 1657–58, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. (Credit: Wikipedia). « Ce qui m’a le plus ravi en Espagne, ce qui, à lui seul, vaut le voyage, c’est l’œuvre de Vélasquez. C’est le peintre des peintres ; je n’ai, cependant, été nullement…
Irreversible Consequences: Mancini and Manet
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons). At first glance, Antonio Mancini’s Dopo il duello (1872) and Édouard Manet’s Dead Toreador (c. 1864; exhibited independently as L’Homme mort in 1867) appear to belong to quite different pictorial worlds. Mancini’s painting centres on the frightened reaction of a child confronted with the aftermath of a duel, while Manet’s image presents…
“The Sublime Heights of Laurels and of Parnassus”: Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (1581–1641)
“Anyone, however, who considered only his lengthy contemplation of things might easily have judged him to be slow and lacking a natural gift, but when he was resolved in his mind and his art, then, with the muses leading him by the hand, he ascended to the sublime heights of laurels and of Parnassus.” Giovan…
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