Ginevra de’ Benci
Ginevra de’ Benci (1474-8) – Leonardo da Vinci It is neither the first nor last time that I’ll be overcome by the exquisite beauty of a painting, in this case Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of a...
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Caspar David Friedrich – On the Sailing-Vessel (1818) ***** Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth. SFMOMA There is no history. Each human being makes his own history, has his own thoughts and his own world...
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Fuji X100 camera The Cure’s Boy’s Don’t Cry album Beckett’s “trilogy” of novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Tony Scott’s film True Romance Dr. Marten 10-Eye steel toe-cap boots (Cherry Red)...
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In Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting (Tratatto) he advises a neophyte artist to ‘quicken the spirit of invention’ by observing walls stained by damp, or the coloration of rocks, and in them to see...
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Studies for the Heads of Two Soldiers in the Battle of Anghiari (1504-05) by Leonardo da Vinci. But this laughter is the reason why the Tuscans invented science and the clear Tuscan drawing in their...
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