As a young man, I was interested in what might be called software architecture ascetics. My colleagues and I used a single, disparaging word for overly-complicated design: Baroque.
While I would not presume to criticize the Seventeenth-century Florentine works we saw today at PHXart, I will say some of the frames are, well, Baroque.
But wait, there’s more!
Decidedly not from the Seventeenth century, but worth seeing: a costume used in a set of cultural-political photographs by Cara Romero.
Thank you fir sharing!
The future St. Sebastian looks incredibly nonchalant and relaxed for someone having pierced arrows yanked out of his body.(I meant this as a separate comment, not a reply to yours, Sheila, bit I don’t see a way to delete it.)
I thought so, too.
They say he’s looking heavenward. Probably saying prayers of gratitude, possibly thinking, “Glad I’m not an atheist.”
Mercury (as in the fountain at Christ Church University in Oxford) balancing on the mouth of Aeolus is also at home on my piano these days, former student!
(You are, not him!)
Brideshead Revisited has Anthony Blanche “thrown into Mercury” where he “strikes some poses” and embarrasses the undergraduates!
I love the Baroque frames (and paintings)–some verging on the Rococo!
Who says Irene is plucking them out?
God.