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Home→Published 2017 → November

Monthly Archives: November 2017

Giovanni da Verrazzano, by Ettore Ximenes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 4, 2018

This essay is adapted from Chapter 3 of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide. I’ve kept cross-references to other chapters in the book. Outdoor Monuments has been “translated” into a fabulous app that you can enjoy on your phone or tablet for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Sculpture | Tagged New York City sculpture, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan book

“Be like the bird …” (Victor Hugo)

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

“The Bird,” by Victor Hugo Be like the bird, who Pausing in his flight On limb too slight Feels it give way beneath him Yet sings Knowing he has wings. I haven’t been able to discover who did the translation, … Continue reading →

Posted in Painting, Poetry | Tagged Victor Hugo

Wrought Iron in New York

Posted on November 22, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

One of the things I love about New York is the way protection, in the form of gates, window guards, fences, etc., has been made gorgeous. Here are some of my favorite wrought-iron pieces. South of Houston Inside the former … Continue reading →

Posted in Decorative Arts | Tagged New York City

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: Five Favorites

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

The  Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a few blocks from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Isabella Stewart (b. 1840), daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, grew up in Manhattan and Paris and married Jack Gardner, a wealthy Bostonian. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Painting | Tagged Museums

Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

This post is adapted from the forthcoming Guides Who Know app on Central Park. Medium & size: Bronze, over lifesize. Location: Central Park, on the west side of Conservatory Lake, at about East 74th St. In 1819, 14-year-old Hans Christian … Continue reading →

Posted in Sculpture | Tagged Central Park, New York City sculpture

Saint Gaudens, The Puritan (Springfield, Mass.) – Part 3

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

This is the third in a series of posts on Saint Gaudens’s Puritan, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Part 1 set out questions for you to consider when looking at the sculpture. Part 2 set out my answers to those questions, including first impressions  … Continue reading →

Posted in Sculpture | Tagged Sculpture

Kosciuszko Bridge Progress, 4

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

For earlier photos, see the Bridges tag in the Obsessions cloud at right. For a short time in the summer of 2017, the old and new Kosciuszko Bridges (1939 and 2017) crossed Newtown Creek side by side. Since it’s above … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Bridges

Saint Gaudens, The Puritan (Springfield, Mass.) – Part 2

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

Part 2: My Analysis of the Puritan  Before you dive into this, why not have a closer look at the Puritan on your own, with the questions in last week’s post? Then you’ll have the fun of violently agreeing or disagreeing … Continue reading →

Posted in Sculpture | Tagged Sculpture

Edwin Austin Abbey’s “King Lear, Act I, scene 1” (Metropolitan Museum Favorites, 23)

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Dianne L. DuranteApril 5, 2018

King Lear opens with Lear demanding that his daughters tell him how much they love him, before he divides his kingdom between them. In this ten-foot-wide painting of that scene, Abbey didn’t use the elaborately costumed figures to illustrate a … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Painting | Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art
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