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The MARIO PRAZ MUSEUM IN ROME.
To those who would choose Mario Praz's books An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration or The House of Life as essential for survival on a desert island, a visit to his former apartment in the Palazzo Primoli on via Zanardelli in Rome, now a museum, is one of the bonuses of a visit to that city. However, the apartment takes time to appreciate, and seeing it again for the first time since I paid a call on Professor Praz in the 1970s, I had to admit to initial disappointment. Only gradually did it reveal its subtleties and the way it worked on several levels at once.
At the simplest, its intimate crowded rooms offer a welcome contrast to the grandeur of Roman ...
- FRANCESCO VEZZOLI.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International FLOOD, RICHARD March 1, 2000 700+ words
...it is an exaltation of the self. --Mario Praz, An Illustrated History of Furnishing...an illustrative digression of my own. Mario Praz (1896-1982) was one of those glittering...is now memorialized in Rome's Museo Mario Praz, where his myriad collections are housed...
- Noche y Dia / 'Divina Justicia'.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) June 4, 2005 700+ words
...vuelve un ejercicio de lucidez conmovedora. Como hizo notar Mario Praz, el esplendor del drama ingls comienza con dos obras exitosas...primera, el delito; la segunda, la venganza" (cf., Mario Praz, La literatura inglesa. De la edad media al iluminismo...
- Unspeakable writing: Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: French Forum Plessis, Michael du March 22, 2002 700+ words
...of Jean Lorrain without embarrassment. Those aspects of his life and works that appeared scandalous to his contemporaries...relished. Other influential discussions of Lorrain, such as Mario Praz's in The Romantic Agony, turn Lorrain into a practitioner...
- Francesco Vezzoli: New museum of Contemporary art, New York. (Reviews).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Rimanelli, David May 1, 2002 700+ words
...divas who, one imagines, whatever the actual conduct of their lives, have a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, or even...1999. There are the locations to secure, such as the Museo Mario Praz and Cerveteri Castle. And what about the apartment containing...
- Brushes With Fame.
- Magazine article from: Interior Design March 1, 2007 700+ words
...past six decades portraying the inner life of interiors. Friend and playwright Edward...its inhabitants. A chipper fellow who lives comfortably amid art, books, and candles...aristocrats' houses in the 1940's, and Mario Praz, the artist, critic, and author of...
- Visual Words and Verbal Pictures: Essays in Honour of Michael Bath.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Preston, Claire January 1, 2007 700+ words
...antiquated and faintly idiosyncratic began to be shaken from the culture of emblems as early as the 1950s, once the effects of Mario Praz's Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (London: Warburg Institute, 1939) and Rosemary Freeman's English Emblem...
- Machiavelli: The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Bawcutt, N.W. January 1, 2007 700+ words
...dreadful joke on page 499.) At the same time, those who approach the book having read earlier discussions by scholars such as Mario Praz, Felix Raab, and Emile Gasquet, may be slightly disconcerted by Anglo's choice of materials. He is interested in writers...
- Montale in English.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Harvard Review Doreski, William June 1, 2005 700+ words
...Montale's reception in the English-speaking world, which begins with the first published translation (of "Arsenio," by Mario Praz) in Eliot's Criterion, through the early efforts of Irma Brandeis and the important publication of Lowell's Imitations...
Source: HighBeam Research, The MARIO PRAZ MUSEUM IN ROME.