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What is the Vienna Secession?

October 29, 2019 By Guy St. Clair

Americans are at a disadvantage when answering our title question because the word “secession” is so identified with our Civil War. When eleven southern states each announced that they were seceding from the United States in 1860 and 1861, they initiated this bloody conflict. In Austria, on the other hand, “secession” had nothing to do with …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Travel Tagged With: Vienna - Art Nouveau, Vienna - Secession, Vienna - Secession Building, Vienna (St. Leopold Church Steinhof), Wagner (Otto)

Poster House (America’s Only Poster Museum) Opens with Alphonse Mucha

July 21, 2019 By Guy St. Clair

In the spring of 2017, visiting Amsterdam with my cousin, we were able to wander across the street (well, with the help of our hotel’s concierge) to the Van Gogh Museum to spend a morning with Prints in Paris 1900. It was an engrossing exhibition (the tagline read “The fin de siècle comes to life”). The …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Bernhardt (Sarah), Hsu (Hua), Loos (Ted), Mucha (Alphonse), Poster House, Richard Fuxa Foundation

More Art Nouveau Notes: Time and Place

May 31, 2019 By Guy St. Clair

Art Nouveau provides much pleasure to those who (like myself) have been captured by the allure of the style, and I think I might have come up with a reason why Art Nouveau is so appealing. It’s not only that the style provides the opportunity to experience exceptional beauty, however that elusive quality is defined …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History Tagged With: art nouveau, Jullian (Philippe), l'art nouveau, Paris - Exposition 1900, Sembach (Klaus-Jürgen), Vienna - Secession

Venice: The City of Music

February 9, 2019 By Guy St. Clair

On a visit to Venice last year, several performances gave new meaning (for me) to the common perception of Venice as an important musical destination. There seemed to be performances of classical music all over the place, in both secular venues and at the many churches that have been given over to musical events. It would …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amadio (Davide), Carpaccio (Vittore), Chiesa San Vidal (Venice), La Fenice (Venice), Leo (Leonardo), Montanaro (Giovanni), Piave (Francesco Maria), Romani (Felice), Venice, Verdi (Guiseppe), Vivaldi (Antonio)

Bellini and Mantegna: Two Versions of The Presentation at the Temple

July 9, 2018 By Guy St. Clair

A Fascinating Experience for the Layman In one of my favorite literary works – Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited – when the two young men arrive in Venice to visit Sebastian’s father, Lord Marchmain asks them what they want to do while they are in Venice. Charles, a budding artist, says he would like to see some …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History Tagged With: Bellini (Giovanni), Bellini (Jacopo), da Vinci (Leonardo), Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venice), Gemäldegalerie (Berlin), Isaacson (Walter), Mantegna (Andrea), National Gallery (London), Waugh (Evelin)

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