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Digital Postcard: Hello from Madrid (but Sent from Amsterdam)

May 17, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Hello (again) from Amsterdam. Here’s our post from last week, re-sent with the photographs inserted as part of the text (using the blog format instead of the email format): We’ve been here in Amsterdam for a while, and I don’t think you’ll be surprised to know that we’re loving it.  And the title is a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, Berner (Andrew), Kitt, Kitt (Sandra), Madrid, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Toledo, Toledo (cathedral), van Eyck (Jan)

Milan: Raphael’s “The School of Athens” and Me

November 15, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

[In brief.] Last spring, I had an experience in Milan that surprised me and left me thinking about the effect of remembering things that had happened earlier in my life. My years at university (in his case the University of Virginia in Charlottesville) took place a long time ago, and as with most people, it …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Berner (Andrew), Charlottesville (Virginia), Jefferson (Thomas), Kitt (Sandra), Milan (Biblioteca Ambrosiana), Milan (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), Povoledo (Elisabetta), Proust (Marcel), Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), Raphael, Ross (Nigel J.), School of Athens, University of Virginia

Milan – Teatro alla Scala (2)

August 5, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

When I described Milan in the last post, I used the word “remarkable.” I did so intentionally, for I wanted to assert my opinion that no other word would work. For me, based on my own experience, I can’t think of anywhere else where the citizens’ love of grandeur and, at the same time, their …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Andrea Chénier (opera), Berner (Andrew), Eyvazov (Yusef), Flórez (Juan Diego), Isotton (Chiara), Kitt (Sandra), La Scala, Lucia de Lammermoor (opera), Milan (Italy), Milan (opera), Oropresa (Lisette)

Milan: A Remarkable City

July 8, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

As I continue with my “digital postcards” when I travel, I am happy to share these from a recent journey to Milan (or, as the Italians say, “Milano” – a sound I like but it’s perhaps a bit pretentious for this New Yorker). And while I like to say that, yes, I fell in love …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Berner (Andrew), Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Italy (Lombardy), Kitt (Sandra), Lusmorfie (Milanese Artist), Milan (Cimitero Monumentale), Milan (Duomo), Milan (Italy), Milan (La Galleria), Milan (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana), Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Raphael (School of Athens – Cartoon)

Vienna: Otto Wagner’s Österreichische Postsparkasse

January 21, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

After a long break, I am very pleased to continue this series of posts focusing on Vienna and Art Nouveau (or to be more precise, “Secessionsstil,” as Art Nouveau is called when we speak of the movement as it was taken up in Vienna, or even “der Wiener Jugendstil,” in some circles). Within this context, …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Berner (Andrew), Blaschke (Bertha), Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG), der Wiener Jugendstil, Kassal-Mikula (Renata), Lipshitz (Luise), Lux (Joseph August), Merrill (Elizabeth), Pfeiler (W.), Secessionsstil, Vienna (Austrian Postal Savings Bank), Vienna (Imperial Ministry of War), Vienna (Österreichische Postsparkasse), Vienna Academy, Wagner (Otto)

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