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In reply to the discussion: Here, again, is your Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Backstory Redux.”* [View all]CTyankee
(63,900 posts)25. Sir Kenneth argues for 1a. to be the SECOND version, albeit a bit reservedly...
"Beautiful as it is, this angel lacks the enchantment of the lighter, more Gothic angel in the Paris version. It embodies the result of Leonardo's later researches in which ideal beauty and classic regularity of chiaroscuro were combined, with a certain loss of freshness, but with an expressive power which almost hypnotised his contemporaries."
But this is text from his book of 1938 so...
I really don't know...I have seen the Paris version at the Louvre (l.a.) and will see the London version (l.b. in late May)....
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Here, again, is your Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Backstory Redux.”* [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
You got it marion's ghost! There are two versions. Which is which? and which came first?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
Sir Kenneth argues for 1a. to be the SECOND version, albeit a bit reservedly...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#25
Oh, dear. That is a heavy responsibility...I am no art critic, just an art lover...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#33
Oh, yes, and why is it that we don't like Mantegna so much and love Bellini more?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#19
When I see Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" at the Frick in NYC I am reminded of how
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#26
Oh, Bellini has his rabbit in a hole in St. Francis in the desert...kinda cute it is...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#36
Oh, great, that is what I really hoped would happen (the Challenge part is just a hook
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#51
Bellini was he younger of the two and must have been a bit unhappy about it so my guess is
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#29