Program will feature music from opera over four centuries – Canzona Women’s Ensemble presents its fall concert entitled “The Lyric Muse” on Sunday afternoon, Nov. […]
Paul Manship’s Ode on a Grecian Urn David Ebony
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, gift of Henry and Walter Keney.
Luckily for Paul Manship and his legacy, “decorative” is no longer a pejorative term in today’s pluralistic art world. The recent revival of interest in the “pattern and decoration” art movement of the 1970s and ’80s, for instance, and the renewed appreciation for craft and craftsmanship among contemporary artists, call for a reassessment of those for whom refinement, elegance, graceful forms, and decorative lines, plus astute allusions to art-historical precedents, are hallmarks of their highly polished productions. As the leading proponent of “archaism,” an international modernist movement that thrived in the first decades of the twentieth century, Manship would find many likeminded artists today, ranging from Carlo Maria Mariani and Audrey Flack to Sarah Peters and Justin Matherly, who have regularly incorporated images appr
Kitty Marlowe - the half-naked statue outside Canterbury Cathedral moved to Dane John 100 years ago
Published: 06:00, 14 February 2021
About 130 years ago a committee met to discuss how best to commemorate Canterburyâs most famous son, Christopher Marlowe, in his home city.
The prestigious panel included the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the actor Sir Henry Irving, and the biographer Sir Sidney Lee.
Adding an evergreen shrub did little to allay concerns about the statueâs presence outside the Cathedral Picture: CHAS
They commissioned sculptor Onslow Ford, who created a scantily-clad bronze âLyric Museâ to honour the 16th century poet and playwright.
On September 16, 1891, the life-size statue was unveiled by Sir Henry in the Buttermarket.