tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post1224323039454039423..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: On Being Over-Fond of Petselena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-75219879036493026152016-11-20T18:28:20.206-05:002016-11-20T18:28:20.206-05:00Amusing indeed. Another anti-puritanical venue you...Amusing indeed. Another anti-puritanical venue you may enjoy, in defence of so-called "bad taste" of the bon vivant 18thC France: "Carl Magnusson (lecturer at the University of Lausanne) Too Pretty and Exotic to be Neo-Classical?" I stumbled upon recently at the Courtauld Institute here<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72cxgeZiu8Q<br />Recall Pope Benedict professed to prefer the whimsical-humanist Baroque over perceived 'absolutist' excesses of classicism, a wisdom developed within the bosom of 'feminine' receptivity of Mother Church, methinks? <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16685207104773813929noreply@blogger.com