Love the light ypu shine on troubadours 🙏🏽🥰 Thankyou

Her Mom was a Kirkpatrick, and Eugenie is a cousin of mine. Her story is so interesting because of all she went through! I think she eventually came to Maryland, because she got locked out of...France?

Great

Looking at Cézanne’s mont St.Victoire, I see a sleeping woman.

The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent, was convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent overseas to the penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana, where he spent the following five years imprisoned in very harsh conditions. In 1896, evidence came to light-primarily through the investigations of Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, head of counter-espionage-which identified the real culprit as a French Army Major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. High-ranking military officials suppressed the new evidence, and a military court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy after a trial lasting only two days. The Army laid additional charges against Dreyfus, based on forged documents. Subsequently, writer Émile Zola's open letter J'Accuse...! in the newspaper L'Aurore stoked a growing movement of political support for Dreyfus, putting pressure on the government to reopen the case

About the role of the prostitute in literature.. La Traviata,the Verdi opera, is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from his own 1848 novel.

Hi Sylvia, I really enjoyed this lecture and your other lectures as well. Thank you! If you don’t mind, I have a small question: the pope who met with Frederick Barbarossa in Venice seems to be Alexander III, not Julius II as you mentioned? 🥰

As someone else has said this is clearly entirely based on Ross King’s excellent book ‘The Judgement of Paris’ including most of the quotes and he should get credit for researching the subject, comparing Meissonier with Manet and sparking interest in the latter’s work. Friedland isn’t ’very small’. It is around ten to twelve feet wide.

I share a piece of the same soul as Beatrice Cenci. I am her reincarnated. I know that because I was shown that by my Higher Self a few years ago. And I don’t care one iota if you believe that or not; it is still true. She was repeatedly sexualized, brutally raped and abused by her father and God knows who else in her short 22 years on this planet. I did not appreciate your judgment of her in the beginning of this video. If you have experienced none of those heinous behaviors, then you know absolutely nothing of why there was a postponement of her execution. There was outrage about it at that time, but of course, the new Pope was greedy and cruel. When you are describing people of the past, at least tell the truth about them. She was a very sweet girl, and none of them deserved the cruelty they endured for wanting to rid themselves of his abuse.

Superb lecture. Thank you!

She pronounces the names Camondo and cahen d’anvers and others with such gusto and inflection but every f-ing time mispronounces AUSCHWITZ. Is it some kind of sick f-ing joke? An insult? WTF is wrong with this woman? It’s NOT auswich. Old Jew hater.

Welcome back 🎉

It's really nice to watch something like this and hear how appreciative and responsive the audience is. That's the mark of an engaging speaker. Great lecture, thank you!

this video helped me a lot, thanks for the explanation!

Caravaggio's Medusa is quite disturbing. Once you see it, it occupies a space in your mind forever. in the Uffizi

Bernini was so impossibly talented

Fascinating talk - thank you. But one thing - at 32.34, you say that Christ is the only person not talking to or looking at anyone in the painting, and is the only person looking out at us, the viewer. But isn't the bride in the bottom left also looking out at us?

Then here comes Napoleon Bonaparte who years later makes himself Emperor (with Josephine as Empress) and very much wanted to be perceived as royalty. Ironic isn't it. Great lecture.

Wonderful lecture!

Is Gustave Caillebotte gay? I feel very much so, his depiction of men is very alluring than his female paintings.

Incredible video, thanks so much for the infromation!

Nope a sidechick is still a sidechick.

This woman and her lecture were absolutely wonderful. I have lived in Rome, seen and researched these sculptures but still learned much more from Miss Sylvia. She has a way with humor and education combined that leave me wanting even more. Will be looking for them. Thank you!

you're very educated and this lecture authentic , gripping , researched and romantic....... if the australian accent could be contained as-it sounds like the exact opposite of the world youre describing..... truly magic time in paris.. imagine sherlock holmes , james bond prince charles speaking cockney

Most of his small paintings were done on cradled wooden panels

That's Detaille in the studio

Great lecture. Meissonier was was one the finest artists of the 19th century

This aspect of Napoleon's life doesn't get enough coverage. His family caused a lot of stress and tension that spilled across Europe.

It is refreshing to find a speaker who KNOWS her subject so well that she can extemporize and not read ! Also refreshing is a speaker who pronounces French words and names correctly eg. Monet, Degas!

A slight correction, Guido Monaco was actually born in Talla a small town in the Casentino in the province of Arezzo.

I was taught that Rosa Bonheur figured out that the horse has all of it feet off the ground at mid gallup, then later Muybridge proved it. Did George Stubbe have anything to do with the fascination with equin images having written the first book on the anatomy of a horse?

This lecturer is a treasure. I try to enjoy as many of her lectures that I can. I got the impression they were given to enlighten a group of travelers who would be visiting the areas that she is speaking on. We are all better for her presentations.

had to stop after 3 mins narrator/speaker is fucking awful can do better myself shame tho cud have been very interesting to listen to

Incredibly educational plus entertaining. Enchanté! 🤩

Fantastico!

I think I squealed when I saw you had a lecture about the Nissim Camondo, etc. There's a really excellent book called The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley. He writes about the Nissim Camondo, Ephrussi, Reinach, Cahan-d'Anvers and Rothschild families and French anti-semitism.

You missed the fact that Jean Bernadotte had turned on Napoleon when David was about to finish his painting of the distribution of the eagles. Therefore he made Bernadotte look away instead of looking forward.

Very interesting presentation!

In 2006, Ross King wrote a wonderful book “The Judgement of Paris” on exactly Ms. Sagona’s approach of contrasting Meissonier with Manet.

I love the ironic half-smile of Napoleon's Foreign Minister, Prince Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand Péregord,, seen in profile at the far right wearing the red cloak of Grand Chamberlain. Unlike the parvenues staging this spectacle, he was a genuine aristocrat, and usually the smartest guy in the room. Talleyrand played a key role in the rise of Napoleon to end the Reign of Terror. ; But when he concluded that Napoleon was destroying France, he betrayed Napoleon to Czar Alexander I to restore the Bourbon monarchy. Pragmatic Talleyrand was loyal to France, but never to any particular government. He was hated and feared; (though charismatic and notoriously attractive to women) called "The Lame Devil" as he had been born with a club-foot, cosmetically edited out of this painting.

loved this lecture thank you!

The painting of parket floor scraper, probably Its the same man in different poses. So one same model in this picture. 🤗

Talk about a bottom of a man 😅

Wonderful, thank you!

marie antoinette couldn't win in a rigged system

Fantastic

Josephine looked like she didn't have a brain in her head ... seriously ? Your choice of words leave a lot to be desired.

Brilliant!

This was an excellent and delightful lecture. Thank you.

Excellent. Art of keeping the lecture alive for 90 min !! Enjoyed it.