Writing from the Circolo Unione Firenze society in Florence that, for all its antiquity, is wireless! Will post a photo of our quarters when I return to Rome. A dinner meeting last night on the Cosimo Rosselli project complete with ancient sterling, candlelight, and two white-gloved waiters in tails. The Marchese Rosselli del Turco, current president of the society, is a gracious host and even I (a woman) feel welcome in this masculine establishment.
About Loving Art Partnerships
PROJECT PARTNERS
LOVING ART AFFILIATIONS
Art Lovers in Paris
GREAT MUSEUMS
- Guggenheim Museum
- Harn Museum of Art
- Hofstra University Museum
- Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
- Los Angeles County Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Musee de Louvre
- Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art
- National Art Gallery of the Bahamas
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Ringling Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Art
- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum
- The Frick Collection
- The Getty
- The Leepa-Rattner Museum
- The Uffizi Galleries
- Vero Beach Museum of Art
Loving art is loving Rome
AAM
Comments from Arthur Blumenthal's Student:
- "Just a note to express to you my sheer pleasure for your inspiring class ... I have been awed and changed by it! Not only do I "see" art in a richer, fuller way, but the class allowed me to validate my own impressions. Having to verbally express my reaction to a work of art engaged all my sensibilities. Thank you for transporting me from a viewer to one who "owns" Massimo Stanzione's painting of "Rest on the Flight into Egypt." You taught me to go beyond seeing to "entering" (internalizing) a masterpiece and experiencing its energy and deeper dimensions."
Arthur in the Louvre
A PURYEAR SCULPTURE DAZZLES KÄREN
ART BOOK KEEPERS
Harold Koda: Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Thomas F. Mathews: Holy Image, Hallowed Ground (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Michael Kimmelman: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
ARTHUR CELEBRATES THE MoMA'S PURYEAR SHOW
FRANCESCO DE MURA
Photo Albums
March 2023
ART AND BEAUTY
- "For they (art and beauty) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited." C. S. Lewis
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Karen,
How lovely to spend my spring vicariously in Italy by reading your captivating snapshots of travel!
May we never be too old,or too tired, or too disillusioned to explore new cultures (and old), a sensory adventure through every door and resulting vistas as you have given us such a taste!
A bit of melancholy descended this week with the passing of Kurt Vonnegut. But then I found this perfectly insightful paragraph from the best of the editorials I read.
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
Published: April 13, 2007
"If you read Kurt Vonnegut when you were young - read all there was of him,
book after book as fast as you could the way so many of us did - you probably
set him aside long ago. That's the way it goes with writers we love when we're
young. It's almost as though their books absorbed some part of our DNA while
we were reading them, and rereading them means revisiting a version of
ourselves we may no longer remember or trust."
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Is it too much to want or hope to continue to live this way? That we pursue life with a passion day after day, our pursuits absorbed into our DNA, our DNA shedding into our surroundings?
Certainly, you and Arturo set the bar blissfully high!
Love to you both from Orlando on a blustery day (or it is me who blusters?)
Wendy
Posted by: Wendy Goddard | April 15, 2007 at 11:36 AM