Art and Weddings

[radiantmephit]

This is old news like 2006, but my sweetie and I have been enjoying Simon Schama's Power of Art dvds recently. So far we have only seen Caravaggio and Bernini. Italian artists in the 1600's? HAWT. Super salacious deliciousness.

In new news, this past weekend my brother-in-law got married in KC. It was a fun party. I love it when people wait to get

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[tessagratton]

Tres sexy the both of you. :D

[radiantmephit]

Mmm, thank you! We're missing you and Natalia.

[tessagratton]

One more week!

[clevermanka]

Caravaggio and Bernini are my two favorite artists of the Baroque era. Yum. Bernini is definitely my favorite sculptor.

[radiantmephit]

They did alot with this image on the show, and the thing I keep thinking is: it's marble! How can marble be so very deliciously tactile?!

Oooh, Bernini

[cklarock]

I love Bernini as well -- while the show is a bit prone to histrionics and (like most art historians, IMO) drawing amazingly unsupported conclusions about the artists' intent from an interpretation of the work, what's been great fun is learning about the salacious details of the artist's lives; their loves, feuds, sword-fights, mistresses, enemies, patrons, their successes and failures.

Carrivagio, of course, has the best life-as-drama; he was a drunk, a sword-fighting bravo, a lover of whores, a murderer and contrary genius who dabbled in borderline blasphemies at a time when the Church was the end-all-and-be-all of art patronage. Oh, and he was a Knight of Malta, but they had a falling out over some killing or the other and cut his face up with a razor.

Re: Oooh, Bernini

[radiantmephit]

Between Caravaggio and Bernini the people as they were presented, I think I would rather have known Caravaggio. They were both bastards, but I'll take a drunk bastard over a self-aggrandizing bastard any day. Heh.

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[cklarock]

And a dangerous bastard at that! Based on the crappy swordplay of the actor playing Carravagio, I'm pretty sure I could have kicked his ass. ;)

But I think the real Carravagio was pretty decent with his sword -- he kept killing people and making enemies, but he didn't die in a fight!

Based on the story, we might have liked Bernini had we met him socially, because while he was arrogant, he was supposedly also charming. But assuming we weren't important Cardinals or Popes, I'm sure he couldn't have been bothered to be nice to us. He treated his apprentices like dirt, which gives you the measure of the man.

Re: Oooh, Bernini

[radiantmephit]

But wouldn't you rather while away the hours eating olives and cheese and getting drunk at Caravaggio's watering hole than going to ostentatious parties and pretending to care to hang out with Bernini?

[anniespandex]

Cuteness! (and very well-dressed) :)