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Artikler om Firenze fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 18. maj 2012
ART REVIEW; An Exposition in Florence Focuses on American Artists in the City
FLORENCE -- Henry James had youthful aspirations to become a painter and went with his brother William to William Morris Hunt's art school in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1860. But he soon found his true vocation as a writer. James captured the 19th-century American expatriate experience of Italy so masterfully that it is now almost impossible to see...
ART REVIEW; How the Portrait Revolution Began
NEW YORK -- Some time around the 1440s, Renaissance artists embarked on the most ambitious undertaking in the history of Western culture. They began to move away from the idealized representation of the human person towards closely observed likenesses of living characters. ''The Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini,'' on view until March...
POSSESSED; The Mod Classicist In the Mirror
We now come to the analogy part of the exam. Please assess the following as true or false. Florence was to the Renaissance as Silicon Valley is to the Internet. Tuscany is to Europe as Napa Valley is to the United States. It's a safe bet how Gary Friedman, the chief executive of Restoration Hardware, would answer, even if he never did excel at...
