Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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What This Blog Is For
Published:• 3 min readLong-form stories about the art and landmarks Chiaro recognizes. Read them, or press play and listen the way you'd listen in the app.
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Bernini David Biting His Lip Is a Self-Portrait
Published:• 10 min readBernini's David at the Galleria Borghese is a self-portrait mid-throw: a twenty-five-year-old glaring at his reflection, redefining the subject.
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Rape of Proserpina Bernini Carved With Fingers That Sink Into Stone
Published:• 10 min readBernini's Rape of Proserpina in the Galleria Borghese is marble fingers pressing into marble flesh. The trick a twenty-three-year-old invented.
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The Apollo and Daphne Bernini Finished at Twenty-Four Has Leaves You Can Hear
Published:• 11 min readBernini's Apollo and Daphne at the Galleria Borghese was carved by a twenty-four-year-old and pushes marble to its physical breaking point.
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The Galleria Borghese Was Built by a Cardinal Who Stole Art on a Technicality
Published:• 11 min readThe Borghese collection in Rome holds four Bernini masterpieces in two hours because one cardinal built it with confiscations and nephew money.
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The Van Gogh Self Portrait Orsay Holds Was Painted From Inside an Asylum
Published:• 12 min readThe Van Gogh self portrait Orsay visitors see was painted September 1889 inside the Saint-Remy asylum, three months before he shot himself.
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Musee d'Orsay vs Louvre: The Eight-to-One Density Gap Nobody Tells You
Published:• 12 min readMusee d'Orsay vs Louvre? The Louvre shows 35,000 works, the Orsay 4,000. The eight-to-one density gap is the only honest answer.
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How Long to Spend at Musee d'Orsay (And the Order to Do It In)
Published:• 12 min readHow long to spend at Musee d'Orsay? Three hours minimum, on three floors, in a specific order. Here's the route most guidebooks get wrong.
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Louvre Museum Venus de Milo: The Farm Field, the Broken Arms, and the Inscription the French Hid
Published:• 11 min readThe Louvre museum Venus de Milo was dug from a Greek farm in 1820. A French officer, an Ottoman agent, a lost plinth, a two-century cover-up.
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Turn Around: The Wedding at Cana Painting Is a Wall
Published:• 14 min readThe Wedding at Cana painting by Paolo Veronese is the biggest canvas in the Louvre, hangs directly behind the Mona Lisa crowd, and almost nobody turns around.