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		<title>The Greatest Snowman Ever?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruler of Florence, Piero de&#8217;  Medici, ordered Michelangelo to make a snowman in the courtyard of his palace.
He is usually censured for that and the snowman is cited as the supreme example of  a patron&#8217;s  abuse of an artist. How could anyone order a great genius to waste his time like that?
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		<title>This Is the Great Goya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here he is in his studio in Madrid in about 1795:

He&#8217;s doing your portrait.
You have just walked into his studio and are standing where he showed you, in front of that enormous window—one of the biggest you ever saw in 1795.
He stands right in the light, so until your eyes adjust, he&#8217;s just a silhouette. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=2738&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Madrid&#8217;s Mona Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Andrea del Sarto]]></category>
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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 one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. Many thought he painted so well he might have rivalled the great Leonardo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=423&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murillo&#8217;s Homey Virgin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murillo is one of the great colorists of the world.
Look at this beautiful Virgin and Child, now in the Prado Museum of Madrid.

Virgen del Rosario con el Niño  (164 x 110 cm.) Painted 1650-1655
It shows the best of Murillo. He was a simple man with his heart open all the time and his sweetness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=2616&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Velasquez&#8217;s Pentimenti</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A painter has to be a kind of magician with a brush. He must put on just the right color in just the right amount in just the right place of his canvas. Diego Velazquez did that better than even the best of painters. His touch was sure, it was perfect.
And yet: everyone has heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=36&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Michelangelo a Coward?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A deserter he certainly was.

Florence was under siege and the authorities put Michelangelo in charge of the city’s defense. He strengthened the city walls, built bastions in strategic places around the city, and encircled the San Miniato hill above town with fortifications. Everyone agrees he did a good job.
 One of his sketches for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=2469&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Big Discovery in the Pauline Chapel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years people have thought this painting  was  a self-portrait of Michelangelo.

It was put on the cover of a collection of his writings way back in 1987,  still for sale at Abebooks:

On the back it says: “Cover Illustration: detail of Crucifixion of St. Peter (assumed to be a self-portrait), c. 1550, by Michelangelo”.
So the latest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=2454&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dürer&#8211;Draw Better Than This</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dürer was famous for his drawings.
He drew complex pictures with lines alone. Woodcuts like this Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse made him famous  all over Europe before he was even thirty:
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer (1498)
How did he turn everything he saw into lines?  How can that work?  “There are no lines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=100swallows.wordpress.com&blog=1533179&post=2429&subd=100swallows&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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