Rafael’s Magic
Some of Rafael Sanzio’s greatest painting is on the wall of the so-called Heliodoro Room in the Vatican. Covering walls with frescoes has problems that the studio painter, sitting in front of his...
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Lucrezia by Andrea del Sarto She hangs on a wall of the Prado Museum in Madrid, ever bewitching. Who painted her? Her husband, Andrea del Sarto, who was crazy about her, to his great bad luck. He was...
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A vitalist like Ernest Hemingway stayed away from museums. He liked to meet the living, not the dead; he avoided the catalogued and the stuffed. Bill Davis, Rupert Bellville, and Ernest Hemingway...
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