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Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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6/5/07 4:21pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"
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You've been to the Uffizi?
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Chancellor_Ewok
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6/6/07 2:06pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"
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Zaz posted:
You've been to the Uffizi?
In the 11th grade. I also saw the David and the Piatta in Rome. Do you hate me yet? 
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Zaz
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6/6/07 4:08pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"
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I hate you.
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DT421
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6/7/07 10:13am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"
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Zaz posted:
It is unknown who the patron was, or what the occasion. Such a large painting on a non-religious subject was rare.
The best guess at that is that it may have been painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici's Villa di Castello.
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Zaz
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6/8/07 9:15pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Sandro Botticelli "The Birth of Venus"
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Next: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
1488, tempera on panel, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
This portrait is symbolic...the book reflects the woman's learning, the coral beads, a rosary (she's pious), and there is an inscription, "Art, would that you could represent character and mind! There would be no more beautiful painting on earth."
The portrait was based on a drawing for a full-scare fresco; the sitter was a minor bystander in it. She also died in childbirth in the year inscribed on the portrait, so the portrait was posthumous.
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Black-Pearl
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6/9/07 5:30am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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Is that what you're looking for?
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Zaz
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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See? I only get a post in this damn thread when I make a mistake. [mutter, mutter, mutter]
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Black-Pearl
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6/9/07 9:29am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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Lol, I think it's a beautiful painting.
Did you analyze all of these yourself or is it off a site?
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Zaz
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6/9/07 9:35am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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I have a book from the Folio Society, with large illustrations. Very nice.
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Black-Pearl
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6/9/07 9:39am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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Not enough people on the boards appreciate art. Put a naked picture up there you'll get thousands of replies.
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Zaz
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6/9/07 7:32pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni"
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You'll also get banned...
Next: Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine" (Cecilia Gallerani)
c. 1490, oil on panel, Czartoryski Museum, Cracow
The ermine symbolizes purity and moderation. He has a lot of personality.
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Black-Pearl
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine"
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I will? Even if it's purely for the sake of art?
That picture is kind of bland in my opinion. Needs more colour and the lady could lighten up a little bit!
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Zaz
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6/10/07 8:50pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine"
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Next: "Self-Portrait at 28" by Albrecht Durer
c. 1500, oil on panel, Alte Pinokothek, Munich
Durer was apparently the first artist to do independent self-portraits, though some artists portrayed themself in a scene.
He did one at 22, 26, and this was the third, at 28. He painted at least one subsequent one, now lost.
He darkened his hair and elongated his features to give himself a Christ-like appearance.
Here's the one at age 22:
And at 26:
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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6/10/07 8:57pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Self Portrait at 28" by Albrecht Durer
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Durer was a true master; the personality shines through this one. That gaze is incredibly direct.
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Zaz
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6/11/07 9:58pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Self Portrait at 28" by Albrecht Durer
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Next: Vittore Carpaccio "St. Augustine in his Study"
c. 1502-8, oil and tempera on canvas, Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice
Usually identified as St. Jerome, this painting actually depicts St. Augustine, who described a moment when an unexplained light entered the room while he was writing a letter to St. Jerome. He knew by this that Jerome was dead. This painting shows that moment.
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