“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Nothing to see here. Apart from the fact that I seem to be stuck in Italy with a load of Renaissance artists…..Woohooo :o) The image above is by Giotto. It’s called Stultitia. And is in a fresco painted in about 1303 in the Chapel above. What do YOU see? This image is represented in the […]
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He’s far too clever for me :o( Pout!
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And here is why I NEED to go to Florence. A feast for all my senses. Aaaah :o)
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I had no idea just how far back the symbolism went and how well known it used to be. Young Sforza is being given a choice in this painting. Look closely!
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This is another MUST SEE place on my list! Palazzo della Ragione, Padua Those frescoes – Schwoon :o) One of the frescoes is the image below. Who is she? LOOK AGAIN! Yup. She looks very much like Mary and the Holy Child but she’s NOT! In a Catholic country, in the 15th century, Venus and […]
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I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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Judith beheading Holofernes Salome with the head of John Clueage…One carries a Sword of Justice!!!!!!!! Caravaggio Vibe ? P.S. Hol – OFF -‘er – knees?
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Have I just noticed something? Well. I’ve not SEEN this mentioned – yet – though it may be well known. A cutting of the Bronzino Allegory of Public Happiness has just shown me something that I’ve yet to see explained. See image above. Folly Defeated. I noticed the Jester Cap. The bells around his leg […]
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The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness By Greta Brookes Bronzino spent many years as court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence during the 16th century. The painting above is called The Allegory of Public Happiness and like many, if not all, of the Renaissance works of art, it contains within the […]
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Below is the first part of a much longer article. The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness By Greta Brookes Bronzino spent many years as court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence during the 16th century. The painting above is called The Allegory of Public Happiness and like many, if not all, […]
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I talked about the Nine Worthies the other day. These are the Nine Greatest/Most Virtuous/Chivalric Males. They have female counterparts. And the fresco at Castello della Manta shows them too. But – unlike the men who seem to be fixed in history, the women are not. Depending on which source you research, the names of […]
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