{"id":4151,"date":"2003-02-24T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2003-02-24T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2003-02-24T16:07:12","slug":"renaissance-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"renaissance portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed downtown today. Some of us from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliberative-democracy.net\/\">CIRCLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>had an interesting lunch in Union Station, discussing research ideas with<\/p>\n<p>some potential applicants. I was also on my cell phone a fair amount,<\/p>\n<p>mostly talking to fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cived.net\">NACE <\/a>members<\/p>\n<p>about opportunities to mobilize the organization. In between things, I<\/p>\n<p>ran&#151;literally ran&#151;into the National Gallery. I headed for an<\/p>\n<p>area that I hadn&#8217;t been in for a long time, and found myself looking at<\/p>\n<p>a couple of striking portraits of Guiliano de&#8217; Medici, who was murdered<\/p>\n<p>at mass in the Pazzi conspiracy. The Gallery has Botticelli&#8217;s amazing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/gallery\/gg7\/gg7-41398.0-biblio.html\">painting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(which looks almost like a fine modern cartoon, with its bold blocks of<\/p>\n<p>color and exeggerated features) and also Verocchio&#8217;s large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.italian-art.org\/masters\/verrocchio\/art.html\">bust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>of the same young man. Guiliano is ugly but charismatic; confident or<\/p>\n<p>perhaps arrogant; and very much an individual. I can&#8217;t think of anything<\/p>\n<p>else to write about these portraits except art-historical cliches (&quot;Renaissance<\/p>\n<p>individualism,&quot; &quot;unsentimental realism&quot; &#8230;), but it was<\/p>\n<p>a 25-minute break that will stay with me for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed downtown today. Some of us from CIRCLE had an interesting lunch in Union Station, discussing research ideas with some potential applicants. I was also on my cell phone a fair amount, mostly talking to fellow NACE members about opportunities to mobilize the organization. In between things, I ran&#151;literally ran&#151;into the National Gallery. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}