Mây Họa Ánh Trăng (Sách Ảnh) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Luis Donoso huesosnegros — "Proceed to that most-visited little gallery in the world - the Tribune - and there, against the wall, without obstructing rag or leaf, you may look upon the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses - Titian's Venus. It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed - no, it's the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl - but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to - and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its priviliges." The American tourist so excercised by this image then went on to observe, "I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with pathetic interest." In his 1880 travelogue 'A Tramp Abroad', Mark Twain (for it is he: our American tourist and the author of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) proposed that "it was painted for a bagnio [an Italian bath-house:], and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong", adding humorously that "in truth, it is a trifle too strong for any place but a public art gallery." Titian's 'Venus of Urbino' is one of the defining works of Western art - simultaneously controversial and much imitated (most notably in Manet's 'Olympia'). This series of accessible essays attempts to explain why reaction by the likes Twain were vested firmly in their own times and not the cultural associations of Renaissance Italy when the picture was painted.

Jose Vargas _ose_argas — Loved reading it!