Simply, so Enchanting; John Bellany Now Lives in Barga and Five of His Works Will Feature Alongside Italian Art in an Exhibition to Mark the Opening of a New Glasgow Showcase. By Keith Bruce
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AT a lecture in the National Portrait Gallery in London recently, biographer Richard Holmes - in his forensic way - cast doubt over the romantic legend around the drowning of poet Percy Bysche Shelley in the Gulf of Spezia in 1822, when he was just 29. Holmes, characteristically and convincingly, produced a more rational explanation for the foundering of Shelley's boat, the Don Juan, than an elemental tussle with the forces of nature.
They'll be having none of that in the Province of Lucca in Tuscany. Shelley's association with the area is the foundation of an artistic flowering of music and art which spread word of the area across the world and gave the Italian diaspora a culture with which they could identify wherever they found themselves.See the full content of this document
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Simply, so Enchanting; John Bellany Now Lives in Barga and Five of His Works Will Feature Alongside Italian Art in an Exhibition to Mark the Opening of a New Glasgow Showcase. By Keith Bruce
That is the background to a new exhibition, The Enchanted Land: Puccini's landscape, light and colours, which was opened last night at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow by First Minister Jack McConnell.
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