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Florence's art treasures are world-renowned. But you wouldn't be able to see the masterworks of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and so many others if it weren't for the contributions of generations of low-profile arts patrons. These days, much of that patronage comes from outside Florence and even outside Italy; walk through the Uffizi and you'll see restorations paid for by groups of art lovers in locations from Kyoto to Cleveland...
...Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris. The lineup includes Botticelli at the Musée du Luxembourg, Bazille at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and a huge Jean Cocteau retrospective at the Pompidou Center. With over 200 paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculptures, photographs and sketches, Gauguin-Tahiti, the Atelier of the Tropics (Oct. 3-Jan. 19) offers brilliant confirmation...
...much of an art as other creative pursuits, literary or otherwise. Faithful readers of the paper will note that The Crimson has been blessed with one of its best generations of sportswriters ever. The painstakingly insightful prose wrought by Brian Fallon evokes the deliberately beautiful brush strokes of Botticelli. The subtle verve and elegant execution of a Martin Bell story satisfies the learned reader as much as the nuances of Nabokov. Dave De Remer’s mathematical-like precision and dedication to perfection in writing is reminiscent of the intricately insane, yet precise rhythms of Stravinsky. A Rahul Rohatgi...
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Gradually, the goddess of the palazzo comes closer. She turns toward you in three-quarters view, in imitation of Flemish painting. (There had been a big vogue in Florence for artists like Hans Memling and Petrus Christus.) This shift is just beginning in Botticelli's portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, but her pearl-encrusted beauty still has the idealized remoteness of myth. From the turn toward the viewer's eye would be born the modern idea of portraiture as the making of a "speaking likeness"--speaking, that is, to a viewer, rather than holding itself aloof. But absolute truth to nature...