Entitled Truth Descending upon the Arts and Sciences and comprising thirty-two panels, the painting was completed in Whitehall in and shipped to Oxford by barge. Not surprisingly, the ceiling became a spectacle in its own right from the moment that the Theatre was completed. A broadside, A Discription of the Painting of the Theater in Oxford , may well have been sold to visitors. In the north-north-west corner of the ceiling is a bare-breasted woman holding a series of curious-looking objects. That Streater included printing at all amid a whirl of mythical personifications was a powerful statement about the role that university printing was expected to play in the cultural life of the nation.


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Inside there are fewer than a dozen people, and all around you, in the half-light, are some of the boldest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, depicting the life of Christ with a directness you have never seen before. You gasp before the burly bodies that loom amid shearing bolts of white and divine blasts of amber. You walk out of San Rocco half an hour later, and the light outside seems too bright. Everything you thought you knew about painting is wrong. Victorian art critic John Ruskin nearly fainted outside San Rocco.



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Post a Comment. Click on photos to enlarge. Thursday, January 6, Eugene Delacroix. In a country whose artistic tradition is packed nearly to the ceiling with paintings, if one were to ask the average Frenchman which of them is perhaps the greatest work ever produced in his country the answer might surprise you. If we, as outsiders were to consider this question, a work by David, Ingres, perhaps Manet or Monet might come to mind.

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