{"id":3188,"date":"2013-12-07T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-11-24T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T05:43:36","slug":"noam-chomsky-and-other-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/12\/07\/noam-chomsky-and-other-greats\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky and Other Greats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NoamOn this day in 1598, one of the greatest sculptors of all time, Gian Lorenzo Bernini<\/a> was born. He was also a great painter and architect. Oh, and he was involved in the theater and wrote plays. He’s not as well known as Michelangelo, but he is at least as good and I would say better. He pretty much invented Baroque sculpture. Of course, that is why he isn’t terribly well known outside of art circles. With the rise of the Neoclassical movement, Baroque art fell out of favor. I much prefer the Neoclassical period myself. But it does show how stupid art criticism tends to be. The old saying is all you really need to go by, “I may not know art, but I know what I like!” Caveat: that doesn’t mean what you don’t like is bad.<\/p>\n

The composer Pietro Mascagni<\/a> was born in 1863. He composed in that wonderful period between Romantic and Modern, where the music was crisp but beautiful. He is mostly known as an opera composer. Indeed, his one-act opera Cavalleria Rusticana<\/i> is still one of the most performed to this day. What follows is the Intermezzo from that opera. I dare you not to love it. <\/p>\n