For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by the Stasi. Echoes of Surrealism surveys the ways in which a sense of the surreal infused …
by Borghini, Raffaello, Ellis, Lloyd H.,, Jr
fromLorenzo da Ponte Italian library
"Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the influence of the Counter-Reformation on religious painting. Through a distillation of the gossip surrounding art and artists that was a feature of the Medici grand ducal court, Borghini pu…