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Supercult. Linda Nochlin on Rosa Bonheur

While rejecting in complete good faith the conventional feminine role of the time, Rosa Bonheur ran into what Betty Friedan calls "the lace blouse syndrome": that innocuous version of feminine protest that still prompts successful women, such as psyc...
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Supercult. Luisa Becherucci on Cimabue

The uncertainty in accepting the attribution to Cimabue, proposed by Thode for the work never remembered in the sources and lacking any documentation, was mainly due to the state of preservation that allowed only to guess at it not to fully evaluate ...
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Supercult. Eike Schmidt on Baccio Bandinelli

Michelangelo's declaration and energetic aversion to a veridical manner in portraying the likeness of a real person marks from the artistic point of view the most substantial break with the fifteenth-century bust-portrait: a break that is characteriz...
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Supercult. Philippe Daverio on Raphael

Here we are again with Cardinal Scipione Borghese. He had this painting hastily taken from the Franciscan convent near Perugia by counting it on to the friars, telling them that it was too important a work to be guarded so poorly and would therefore ...
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Supercult. Anna Banti on Artemisia Gentileschi

It seems to me to be in the true, a true unspeakable, forming on Artemisia's lips these words. At least once she must have said them, with that Spanish albagia that she learned, after thirty, in Naples. She lifted the hard chin of stubborn blonde and...
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Supercult. Arthur Wheelock and Ben Broos on Jan Vermeer.

This young girl stares at the concerning with her liquid eyes and half-open mouth and in the process radiates purity, drawing all gazes to her. Her soft, smooth skin is as spotless as the surface of her large, tear-shaped pearl earring. Like a vision...
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Supercult. Tiziano Scarpa on Bertozzi & Casoni

In many of Bertozzi & Casoni's works, one comes across objects that are avowedly "made of ceramics": plates, cups, teapots where the ceramic explicitly declares itself amidst a clutter of other objects. Ceramics is a protean material. It is the w...
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Supercult. Federico Zeri on Francesco Bonsignori

The author, active in Verona in the second half of the 15th century, is named Francesco Bonsignori. The painting, preserved in the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, is signed, and dated 1483. It depicts a Madonna and Child. At first glance it would loo...
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