Sculpture name and place?
Does anyone know this flowing sculpture’s name, location, or creator? One suggestion I’ve received is that it’s from La Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires.
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Today’s art collectors
Indeed, Patrick, indeed. Click for full size. Taken in Florence, across the piazza from Santa Maria Novella.
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Artistic Genius — Magna Graecia
Shooting for Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes in the presence of real Greek temples, monuments, and amphitheatres. Awe inspiring. Greek culture, centered especially in Athens, was the fount of what art historian E. H. Gombrich called “the greatest and most astonishing revolution in the whole history of art.” The intensely personal poetry of Sappho, the
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Artistic Genius — Florence, Italy
Shooting the last two days in Florence, where republican politics, relatively free markets and innovative business, relaxed religion, and humanistic philosophy laid the groundwork for the explosion of artistic creativity in the 1400s — Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the list goes on. Awesome. Visual delights everywhere, a strong sense of living
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Artistic Genius — Monet’s Giverny
Shooting yesterday at Claude Monet’s magnificent house and grounds at Giverny, about an hour west of Paris along the Seine. It was there that he painted his beloved waterlilies. Monet left his world-class mark in two fields — painting and gardening. At Giverny he lived his final decades of a long life, after a hard-fought
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Artistic Genius — Impressionists in Paris
Shooting in Paris today, all over the place. The rule for street parking in Paris is: Whatever you can get way with. Success, I’m happy to report. Aside from some great locations, an accomplishment was my costume change in the car in the touristy Pigalle area without getting arrested for indecent exposure. (Though Pigalle’s shops
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Artistic Genius — Haarlem and Amsterdam
Filming today in Haarlem, primarily in connection with Pieter Saenredam’s renditions of the interior of the Bavokerk, and in Amsterdam for its importance to art in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. Here is Rembrandt’s house in Amsterdam, in which he lived and worked, along with his apprentices, from the 1630s until the
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Artistic Genius documentary — Europe locations
We are currently working on a new documentary with the working title Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes. The question I take up is why art flourishes so awesomely in some places and times — classical Athens, Renaissance Florence, the Dutch Golden Age, nineteenth-century Paris — but is stagnant in others. Some of our production team
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