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The Castrato and His Wife
The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's ...
Valentin de Boulogne
Following Caravaggio's death in 1610, the French artist Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the great champions of naturalistic painting. The eminent art historian Roberto Longhi honored him as "the most energetic and passionate of Caravaggio's naturalist followers." In Rome, Valentin—who loved the tavern as much as the painter's pallette—fell in with a rowdy confederation of artists but eventually received commissions from some of the city's most prominent patrons. It was in this artistically rich but violent metropolis that Valentin created such masterworks as a major altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and superb renderings of biblical and secular subjects—until his ...
El galerista
Leo Castelli fue hasta los cincuenta años lo que en Estados Unidos se considera un europeo típico: diletante, más aficionado a la vida social que al trabajo, mujeriego y vividor. Pero entonces abrió su local en Nueva York, y se convirtió en El Galerista: el hombre que dio entidad y cuerpo al pop-art, que descubrió a Jasper Johns, a Lichtenstein, a Rauschenberg o a Warhol. El anfitrión de las fiestas clave, el marchante de los artistas que contaban... un europeo que reinó durante varias décadas en Nueva York, y que desde allí reconquistó Europa con toda una red de galerías satélite. Annie Cohen-Solal llegó a Nueva York a finales de la década de 1980, a tiempo de caer fascinada por el hechizo de este hombre enigmático, con el que sostuvo largas charlas, complementadas con los testimonios de sus familiares, esposas y ex, hijos, artistas, colaboradores, amigos y adversarios. De todo ello emerge un retrato fascinante, el relato de unos años mágicos en la Gran Manzana y una obra imprescindible para los lectores interesados en el arte contemporáneo y en el mercado que lo rodea.
Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Offering a broad overview of memorialization practices across Europe and the Mediterranean, this book examines local customs through particular case studies. These essays explore complementary themes through the lens of commemorative art, including social status; personal and corporate identities; the intersections of mercantile, intellectual, and religious attitudes; upward (and downward) mobility; and the cross-cultural exchange.
Michelangelo's David
This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo's David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus that stood on the cathedral buttresses for which Michelangelo's statue was to be a companion. The David, with its placement at the Palazzo della Signoria, was deeply implicated in the civic history of Florence, where public nakedness played a ritual role in the military and in the political lives of its people. This book, then, places the David not only within the artistic history of Florence and its monuments but also within the popular culture of the period as well.
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