Saturday, April 24, 2010

Alessandro Allori, Pearl Fishers, 1570-2


  • References to The Flood on the Sistine Chapel
  • and also to Separation of the Red Sea by Bronzino
  • Pearls are expensive and refer to the objects in the collection
  • Pearls combine nature and artifice
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  1. UnknownApril 24, 2010 at 9:45 PM

    - pearls mimicked by the translucent, shiny appeal of painting
    -colours are also quite bland, some sort of tranquility

    George

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