Showing posts with label Brazilian Baroque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazilian Baroque. Show all posts
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Painter + Sculptor Collaboration (and a Little about Luisa Roldán)

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I thought I'd keep on the theme of polychrome sculpture this week, given my earlier post on painted classical sculpture .  Recently I...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Artist Had Never Seen a [Insert Animal] Before

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It's always interesting to see how an artist depicts an animal that he/she has never seen. Vasari writes that Paolo Uccello wanted to d...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Phrygian Caps in Art

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Yesterday I was reading about Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1831) and started to think about the Phrygian cap that Liberty is...
Monday, June 29, 2009

N. S. do Rosário dos Pretos and Peterskirche

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When I went to do research in Brazil a few years ago, this was my favorite church that I visited. Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (show...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Candida Höfer's Brazil

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I first became familiar with the photographer Candida Höfer through her solo exhibition " Architecture of Absence ." Höfer is pa...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Catedral Basílica de Salvador

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Next time I am in Brazil, I want to go to Salvador and visit the city's Cathedral Basilica. This cathedral was built between 1657 and 1...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Thesis Anniversary

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This month marks the one year anniversary of my thesis defense. I think I will always associate Leap Year Day as the day I became a Master ...