Monday, December 10, 2012

Who Trusts a Cardinal

Afternoon Tea by the Italian classicist painter  Francesco Brunery (1849-1926). Brunery studied with Gérôme and was well known for his anti-clerical art. Here it looks like the older lady is hooking up the cardinal with a young girl, maybe her daughter or niece.
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  1. HelsDecember 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM

    If Brunery created expensive, elaborate paintings but with an anti-clerical viewpoint, who would buy his paintings? I bet it was an expensive work.

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  2. XenophonDecember 11, 2012 at 12:26 AM

    Maybe you are way too British. Especially in the catholic parts of Europe in the 19th century there was always a strong bourgeois anticlerical movement. The Pope was a strong enemy of the Italian unification and was expulsed from Rome by the triumphant nationalists.

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