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posted by craig on 2015.01.30, under Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Film, Geography, History, Sculpture
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1653)
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Click on images for bigger images. All images by Aremisia Gentileschi, image maker.
“Uccellacci e Uccellini” (Hawks & Sparrows) – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1966)
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Just watched this its odd – here’s the trailer, the music is good/odd and by Ennio Morricone.
Robert Rauschenberg – ‘Dante Drawings’ (1958-1960)
posted by craig on 2015.01.23, under Art, Books, Drawing, Illustration, Italy, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Religion
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A series of drawings and prints made to illustrate Dante’s Inferno (The Divine Comedy). There’s a great Rauschenberg website here. From top to bottom: ‘Canto I: The Dark Wood of Error’ – ‘Canto II: The Descent’ – ‘Canto IX: Circle Six, The Heretics’ – ‘ Canto XIV: Circle Seven, Round 3, The Violent Against God, Nature, and Art’ – ‘Canto XVI: Circle Seven, Round 3, The Violent Against Nature and Art’ – ‘Canto XXIII: Circle Eight, Bolgia 6, The Hypocrites’ – ‘Canto XXXI: The Central Pit of Malebolge’
Theodore Gericault (1791 – 1824) – ‘Les Monomanes (Portraits of the Insane)’
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These are portraits of patients of a friend of the artists’ who was a psychiatric doctor. There were 10 originally but only 5 remain, all from 1822/23. From top to bottom they are;
‘Insane Woman’ – ‘The Woman with a Gambling Mania’ – ‘Man Suffering from Delusions of a Military Rank’ – ‘Portrait of a Kleptomaniac’ – ‘A Kidnapper’
