after my Italian trip - see today's post on http://Tony_Green.typepad.com - & a nearly complete break from 'art' - I'm back at work on an essay on Poussin's Judgment of Solomon.
Purpose: to show why the 'bad' mother has been wrongly identified first by Bellori, & more recently by Anthony Blunt and most subsequent writers, to argue for the correct identification & to show how the wrong identification occurs as a result of Poussin's highly 'philosophical' practice.
I began to suspect in 1992 that there was a problem set by the painting. I finally worked it out while I was in Italy this month.
Crucial moments: I will say now: the 2 women have identical mirroring faces in profile - one in light the other in shadow - & the key to the decision is not an analysis only of the women's attitudes gestures appearance & dress - which has always seemed a likely way of deciding between them - one of the other figures supplies the answer.
I'm hoping to have this and everything else ready for publication within a year. Then the answer will be revealed.
I'm thinking of using as an epigraph Wittgenstein's: "But most people are lazy. They never look at everything. They do what is called glancing, which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, e.g. when a snooker-ball glances off another snooker-ball." Philosophical Investigations [P.I.for short. p140]. That is something Poussin might well have thought, minus the snooker-balls.
additional note 15 November '07 I was wrong about 'snooker balls' only to the extent that 15th century people played a kind of billiards http://www.bca-pool.com/aboutus/history/start.shtml
& then there's another possible epigraph, Charles Bernstein's one-liner in Rough Trades: "Poussin never ate baloney".
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