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  • Casanova and the affair of Giustiniana Wynne – part 4

    • October 20, 2018
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      The final of four posts on Casanova and the affair of Giustiniana Wynne. Whatever her true feelings towards Casanova Giustiniana had appeared to warm to him quite quickly after their early meetings, so much so that she managed to find herself alone with him at a masked Opera Ball whereupon Casanova professed his love
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  • Eighteenth-century women painters in France

    • October 13, 2018
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      Although many critics applauded their new prominence, others lamented the immodesty of women who would display their skills so publicly. Indeed, pamphleteers frequently conflated the exhibition of these women’s paintings with the display of their bodies… Always very well worth exploring - the Met museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History along with the usual
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  • Casanova and the affair of Giustiniana Wynne – part 3

    • October 3, 2018
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      The third of four posts on Casanova and the affair of Giustiniana Wynne. In the spring of 1757, now four years into the relationship, Andrea and Giustiniana began seeing each other again in secret but things weren’t the same, especially from Giustiniana’s perspective.  What was there for her to look forward to?  The future
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