I confess his work is not what I would call "arresting, but most of my artistic taste begins and ends with the late Renaissance Dutch masters. (Given the choice between a Rubens print and a genuine Modigliani in my house, I'd go with the Rubens.) I can begin to see some of the things you talk about in the pictures you shared, but I still have to work on it.
By the bye, what you said about the male gaze (I keep wanting to change that to "glaze"), much of this stuff owes its origin to Renaissance pornography. You might enjoy reading Lisa Jardine's "Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance." Books like Jardine's (and, of course, Braudel's magnificent 2-volume set) are part of what got me hooked on the Ren Faire, because they focus on the physical *things* of life in the era, rather than just ideas &/or sequences of events.
Ooooh, I would LOVE to read that! And your description of it sounds like just the kind of thing I’m wild about—what people interacted with every day, not just a bony recitation of events. Now to find these books in Kindle form….
I confess his work is not what I would call "arresting, but most of my artistic taste begins and ends with the late Renaissance Dutch masters. (Given the choice between a Rubens print and a genuine Modigliani in my house, I'd go with the Rubens.) I can begin to see some of the things you talk about in the pictures you shared, but I still have to work on it.
By the bye, what you said about the male gaze (I keep wanting to change that to "glaze"), much of this stuff owes its origin to Renaissance pornography. You might enjoy reading Lisa Jardine's "Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance." Books like Jardine's (and, of course, Braudel's magnificent 2-volume set) are part of what got me hooked on the Ren Faire, because they focus on the physical *things* of life in the era, rather than just ideas &/or sequences of events.
Ooooh, I would LOVE to read that! And your description of it sounds like just the kind of thing I’m wild about—what people interacted with every day, not just a bony recitation of events. Now to find these books in Kindle form….
Yeah, especially since the plates are such a major part of Jardine's discussion.