tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post7462608861795095103..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: For the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Giovanni BelliniUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-85135346042386735312008-12-17T02:40:00.000-05:002008-12-17T02:40:00.000-05:00If you love Rublev, then have you ever seen Andrei...<I>If you love Rublev, then have you ever seen Andrei Tarkovsky's movie about Andrei Rublev?</I><BR/><BR/>Sadly, yes. <BR/><BR/>I was prepared for Russian length (so to speak) and, as you say, its "very elliptical" quality.<BR/><BR/>I was NOT prepared for the frequent, blatant, and graphic <B>brutalization of animals</B> on-screen (and w/ me having ZERO trust that "No animal were harmed..."---not that the film had such a disclaimer). It was so disturbing, that it ruined the movie for me (despite that final segment in color).<BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I caught myself on the Bellini/Bernini confusion (I knew that Bernini was a sculptor---his AMAZING "Teresa of Avila"!---but not a painter. And I had no idea that Bernini lived centuries later)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-63171295442335517172008-12-15T16:54:00.000-05:002008-12-15T16:54:00.000-05:00Thank you, Doug. A feast for these old eyes. The...Thank you, Doug. A feast for these old eyes. There is nothing so beautiful as a Bellini Madonna - except perhaps a Bottecelli Madonna....June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-66993596377499244372008-12-15T11:08:00.000-05:002008-12-15T11:08:00.000-05:00Thank you...ah, the richness of it all...all.Thank you...ah, the richness of it all...all.Leonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667415590825321701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-20234320908143358412008-12-15T07:46:00.000-05:002008-12-15T07:46:00.000-05:00I believe that you're thinking of Bernini, who liv...I believe that you're thinking of Bernini, who lived a couple of centuries later. He's the one who designed the colonnade around St. Peter's square, as well as most of the interior of St. Peter's.<BR/><BR/>To add to the confusion, there were 3 Bellinis working in Venice in the 15th century. There was Jacopo, Giovanni's father. And then there was Gentile, Giovanni's older brother, who went to Constantinople to work for the Ottoman sultan. To confuse things further still, the artist Andrea Mantegna was Giovanni Bellini's brother-in-law.<BR/><BR/>If you love Rublev, then have you ever seen Andrei Tarkovsky's movie about Andrei Rublev? A lot of it is speculative fiction, since so little is known about Rublev, and he makes Rublev into something a little more anachronistically modern than he probably was, but it's a great movie. It's probably my favorite movie about an artist. A little warning, it's very long, very elliptical, and very Russian. But it's worth it with a surprising and very moving ending. It's also a very unglamorous look at medieval Russia. The Soviets banned the movie when it was finished in 1965, which as far as I'm concerned is a rave review.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-66039829410982012192008-12-15T02:47:00.000-05:002008-12-15T02:47:00.000-05:00Wonderful use of color. Maybe I like them so much ...Wonderful use of color. Maybe I like them so much because, as you say Doug, of his "homages, obvious and subtle, to the Byzantine heritage of his native Venice" (as you know, my tastes in painting run towards the Byzantine. Go Rublev! ;-) )<BR/><BR/>Is this the SAME Bellini as of the "Vatican Columns" (the arcade in St. Peter's Square)? I know that that era produced a number of multi-talented "Renaissance Men", but oh my... (Or was that "Bernini"? Those Paisans and their similar names! :-0)<BR/><BR/>[Thanks again, for showing Gina/Pagan Sphinx, how to do these sort of Pop-Open comment threads!]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-46692847207457805112008-12-14T14:47:00.000-05:002008-12-14T14:47:00.000-05:00Your remark about the music in Bellini's work is v...Your remark about the music in Bellini's work is very much to the point, One can almost hear the Renaissance polyphony in them.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167056789275283692noreply@blogger.com