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Surrounded by beauty
Spent Friday morning surrounded by beauty at the auctioneer’s showroom of Kevin Bruneau out Elmwood way, just over the line in Cranston. The exterior of the low, tan cinder-block building belies its contents. A visitor, having mastered the desire to … Continue reading
Posted in Art and design, Photography
Tagged Antiques, Architectural Ornament, art, Auction, Beauty, Cranston RI, photography, Sculpture
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Words that protect a nude
The essay that accompanies the girl being sold at a Roman slave market in the 1884 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) tries to cover up the nude with protective words. The writer, Titus Techera, performs an act of charity in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged A Roman Slave Market, art, Art Criticism, Beauty, Jean-Leon Gerome, Nude, Painting, Ricochet, Titus Techera
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A lovely 3 minutes in Rome
Here is a video of Rome, with some clips from Pisa and Vatican City, sent to me by Big Geek Daddy. Actually, they sent a video of Barcelona, but it was marred by too much focus on special effects, though … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Video
Tagged Archaeology, art, Beauty, Big Geek Daddy, classical architecture, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Roman Ruins, Rome, Video
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The eye, the mind, the heart
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so sayeth just about everyone, but how does the mind influence what the eye of the beholder sees? If the eye informs the brain and the brain informs the taste, then there … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged Ann Sussman, Beauty, Cognitive Architecture, ICAA, ICAA New England Chapter, Taste
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The good cheer of beauty
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, was published as a serial novel of 20 monthly parts in issues of Punch magazine from January 1847 to July 1848. So next month will be the 170th anniversary of its appearance in print. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture
Tagged Amelia Sedley, Beauty, Becky Sharp, Germany, Mozart, Opera, Rhine Valley, Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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Transport official on beauty
On my ballot next Tuesday I will write in John Hayes for president. Dammit! He is ineligible. He is a member of Parliament, and now Britain’s minister for transport, newly appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May, successor to David Cameron … Continue reading
Krier on the people’s choice
Leon Krier argues that people should be permitted to prefer architecture they like, and dismisses modernists who browbeat the public for the alleged ignorance it expresses in disliking their work. His latest piece in BD, Britain’s building design journal, is … Continue reading
J&W’s engineering error
Johnson & Wales University is about to open up its new engineering facility, named for its chancellor, John Bowen. It will be the first building on land vacated by the relocation of Route 195 to the south of downtown. Providence … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged 195 Land, Beauty, engineering, John J. Bowen, Mim Runey, Providence RI
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How does tower still stand?
Its bell is gone but somehow the tower along the main road through Amatrice survived the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that hit central Italy early Wednesday morning. At least 267 souls perished. Some of these mountain villages hit may never revive.In … Continue reading
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Tagged Amatrice, Beauty, Craco, Earthquake, Italy, New York Times, Photographs
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Lovely rough-hewn brick
Beauty is not always symmetrical, or smooth or polished. Neither is nature. Some of the most beautiful buildings have a sort of rough-hewn quality, often provided gratis over the years by time and weather. The matter came up yesterday when … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Beauty, Brick, Brutalism, Gary Brewer, Nelson Fitness Center, Old Architecture, Rafael Moneo, RAMSA, RISD Museum of Art
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