Galatea by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
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“Her heavy hair was full of the perfume of roses and sandalwood. Beneath the languor of her heavy lids slept passionate violence. She was almost terrifyingly beautiful.”
— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”
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Giambattista Valli, Fall 2017 Haute Couture
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Carlo Cignani (Italian, 1628-1719)
Venus and Cupid
Paintings on this subject were generally intended for courtly bedchamber furnishings. Usually hidden behind a curtain from the Inquisition, which was only opened after the guests had left. We also know similar representations from Alessandro Padovanino. The best-known examples include works by Titian, Veronese, Allori and Maratta.
Cignani is considered the last important painter of the Bolognese school. As a student of Francesco Albani, among others, he dealt with works by Correggio, Guido Reni, Titian and the Carracci family of painters. The decoration of the hall in the Palazzo Farnese, the monumental frescoes depicting King Francis I made him famous. Commissions followed, for example from the Duke of Parma (“Conception”) and the dome painting of the Madonna del Fuoco church in Forli, with which he was busy for two decades. Pope Clement XI appointed him director of the Bologna Academy.
His paintings in numerous public collections. The Theatinerkirche in Munich also shows a work by his hand in the Marienaltar.
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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Ray Fritz
“Evana, Warrandyte 2022”
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“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.”
— Epictetus, Fragments
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Georgiana, Lady Greville, 1772, George Romney
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Portrait of A Girl by Thomas Couture
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me at my wedding
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“To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”
— Ralph Ellison
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by Boleslaw von Szankowski
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Chiara Scelsi by Christian MacDonald for WSJ Magazine July/August 2016
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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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