{"id":2165,"date":"2007-07-13T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2008-07-21T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T16:42:07","slug":"the-art-of-agostino-arrivabene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/13\/the-art-of-agostino-arrivabene\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Agostino Arrivabene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agostinoarrivabene.it\/pittura\/figure\/images\/47)%20Lo%20psiconauta.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/arrivabene1.jpg\" alt=\"arrivabene1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lo psiconauta (2006). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agostinoarrivabene.it\/pittura\/paesaggi\/images\/02)%20capriccio%20co%20ruderi%20di%20citta%20ideale.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/arrivabene2.jpg\" alt=\"arrivabene2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Capriccio con ruderi di citt\u00e0 ideale (2003).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agostinoarrivabene.it\/pittura\/vanitas\/images\/57)%20Vanitas%20su%20zola%20di%20viole.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/arrivabene3.jpg\" alt=\"arrivabene3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Vanitas su zolla di viole (2006). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tagged this as \u201cgay\u201d since the first painting is featured in the controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioesseci.net\/mostra.php?IDmostra=348\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arte E Omosessualita&#8217;. Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles at the Palazzo della Ragione<\/em><\/a>, Milan. That exhibition has caused as stir with Catholics who demanded that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.02blog.it\/tag\/miss+Kitty\" target=\"_blank\">Paolo Schmidlin&#8217;s <em>Miss Kitty<\/em><\/a>, which shows the current Pope in drag, be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agostinoarrivabene.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agostino Arrivabene<\/a>&#8216;s sexuality he&#8217;s no slouch with a paintbrush, and all the sections on his site are worth looking at. The \u201cPaesaggi\u201d section features some architectural caprices, there&#8217;s a section of vanitas works and a fair amount of artistic quotation; I spotted references to Piranesi, Boul\u00e9e and George Minne, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-fantastic-art-archive\/\">The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/04\/24\/vanitas-paintings\/\">Vanitas paintings<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/03\/31\/giant-skeleton-and-the-chocolate-jesus\/\">Giant Skeleton and the Chocolate Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo psiconauta (2006). Capriccio con ruderi di citt\u00e0 ideale (2003). Vanitas su zolla di viole (2006). I&#8217;ve tagged this as \u201cgay\u201d since the first painting is featured in the controversial Arte E Omosessualita&#8217;. Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles at the Palazzo della Ragione, Milan. That exhibition has caused as stir with Catholics who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/13\/the-art-of-agostino-arrivabene\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Agostino Arrivabene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,21,5,44,31],"tags":[2478,139],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-fantasy","category-gay","category-painting","category-religion","tag-george-minne","tag-piranesi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-yV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}