The Buontalenti Grotto or Large Grotto (Boboli Gardens, Florence) The Grotto is a great exemple of mannerism architecture and a typical seventeenth-century artificial cavern mixing sculpture, architecture and painting. The Large Grotto is placed into Boboli Gardens, Florence, and it’s…
Untitled 1936 (Soap Bubble Set) A tribute He is where it all begins. I found myself loving cabinets, collections and collecting when I saw Joseph Cornell works. The idea of this blog is in part due to him. While others contemporary artists…
Jewels are placed on industrial metal shelves in green, penicillin green, among half human and half gold plated mannequin heads. Upon them are settled sort of crystallized insects: bees, wasps, mosquitoes, flies. This is the Delfina Delettrez fall winter 2011/12 collection, presented…
1. Diamonds (For the Love of God, Damien Hirst) 2. Sculpture (Alexander McQuenn shoes) 3. Wings (Anna Dello Russo with Pugh headpiece via jak&jil) 4. Drama (Paradise Lost, Gustave Doré ) 5. Silent movies (Alla Nazimova in Salomé, 1923) 6….
The Swing, J. H. Fragonard “Il Bello è sempre bizzarro. Non voglio dire che sia volontariamente, freddamente bizzarro, perché in tal caso sarebbe un mostro che esce dai binari della vita. Dico che contiene sempre un poco di bizzarria, che…