Recommending you books based on your favorite sculptures from art history✨

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2 жыл бұрын

Hello friends!!!
I’m finally bringing you the second part of my art and books videos! Today, I’ll be recommending you books based on your favorite sculptures, which you submitted to my instagram!
Being a very passionate lover of art history myself, this concept of combining my love of art and books brings me an endless amount of joy!
I hope you find some book recommendations that peak your interest, and maybe learn a little bit about the stories behind our favorite sculptures!
Thank you all so much for being the greatest, and I hope you’re having a fantastic morning, afternoon, evening, or night!!! (subtle Truman Show reference ;)
Best wishes,
Carolyn (& Willow) Marie :)
I’d be thrilled to hear what books you’d recommend for each sculpture, so please feel free to share them in a comment!!!
Sculptures mentioned:
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by Antonio Canova
The Thinker by Rodin
The Kiss by Rodin
The Winged Victory of Samothrace
The Veiled Lady by Raffaelo Monti or The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza
The Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Venus De Milo by Alexandros of Antioch
David by Michelangelo
Pieta by Michelangelo
Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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@huss3in_500 2 жыл бұрын

For the veiled woman I feel like “The bell jar” by Sylvia Plath is a great recommendation

@user-cb7mz2kd2j 2 жыл бұрын

The Thinker by Rodin -- "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann, "The Glass Bead Game" by Hermann Hesse, "Dune" by Frank Herbert The Kiss by Rodin -- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Kundera, "Antony and Cleopatra" by Shakespeare, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte The Winged Victory of Samothrace -- "Les Misérables" by Hugo, "Nibelungenlied" The Veiled Lady by Raffaelo Monti or The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza -- "The Monk" by Lewis, "The Bell Jar" by Plath The Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- "My Dark Vanessa" by Kate Elizabeth Russell David by Michelangelo -- "The hero of our time" by Lermontov, "The Trial" by Kafka, "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Dumas, "Kain" by Byron Pieta by Michelangelo -- "Macbeth" by Shakespeare, "I am (romance)" by Mykola Khvylovy, "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Brecht Apollo and Daphne by Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka

@mizuki0328 2 жыл бұрын

Such good recs! Agreeing so hard, especially with Faustus for the Thinker and Les Mis for Nike!!

@kristinerodriguez5310 2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to you speak all day Carolyn! I want to add every single one of these books to my TBR because you describe them so beautifully!

@PaulinaReadsss 2 жыл бұрын

You should sell those book covers in your Etsy shop so we can actually use them as dust jackets or just having them hanged 😍❤️ you are so talented!!!

@am13007 2 жыл бұрын

These art x literature videos are my favorite to watch. You're so right, art and literature are two faces of the same coin. They can't exist without each other. These videos are so beautiful.

@kaiserrino8774 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. I love Rodin's Thinker. I would recommend Goethe's Faust. For me Rodin's sculpture always evokes the association with Goethes play whenever I see it.

@mpopolino3894 Жыл бұрын

It gives me great comfort and hope for the future to discover bright and enthusiastic young people such as yourself who are inspired by visual art and literature. My home library currently holds at least 2,000 books [minus the many hundreds weeded out over the years], with at least half covering visual art and the remainder mostly covering literature, history, the sciences, and biography. Recommending a book based on a sculpture is an inspired idea! Here are four of my matches: Laocoon [Attributed by Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from Rhodes]- The Aeneid, Virgil Rondanini Pietà [Michelangelo]- Lives of the Artists, Volume 1, Giorgio Vasari Little Dancer Aged Fourteen [Edgar Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art version]- Germinal, Emile Zola Reclining Figure [Henry Moore, Leeds Museums & Galleries version]- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf All the best.........Remain inspired for a lifetime! AP Art History teacher (Retired), NYC

@Labracadabrador101 2 жыл бұрын

Your book recs based on paintings is what made me check out your channel and im so glad. Loved this one as well ❤

@thevintageplaylist7191 Жыл бұрын

Omg this is literally my two favorite things ever combined

@sitting_nut 2 жыл бұрын

thanks, i like the way you think and associate. bernini is my favorite sculptor. for his "the ecstasy of st. teresa" i will recommend, in addition to st. teresa of avila's own writing and autobiography( bernini based the sculpture on a passage from latter), "middlemarch" by george elliot (in your tbr in a recent video?) which directly references st. teresa. also to go on a tangent, "roderick hudson" ( henry james' 1st acknowledged novel ) is about a sculptor and a good gataway to his works, which in general deal a lot with artistic creation, inspiration, and temperament. btw lot of them (including roderick hudson) are mostly set in italy. chekhov's "seagull" can also be considered a meditation on artistic creation and vocation.

@Francisco-wu8xy 2 жыл бұрын

I like Michelangelo "pieta". i recommend book about the sculpture is dostoyovsky"brothers karamazov" this book depicted mother's sad about dead baby. It is very specialized.

@Brijeanson 2 жыл бұрын

You could do a video on books that remind you of different sound art or performance art pieces! Loved this video

@gammaanteria 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Carolyn Marie, I wished to say re: The Kiss by Rodin/"Dante's Inferno"--there is a book (much recommended!) called "Seven Nights" which is seven lectures given by the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. One of these lectures is on The Divine Comedy. One of the stand-outs (maybe in the whole book) for me was his insight into the scene when Dante meets Francesca and Paolo: "Dante is curious about one thing, 'Amor condusse noi ad una morte': Paolo and Francesca were executed together. Dante is not interested in adultery, nor in the way they were discovered and brought to justice. What interests him is something more intimate, and that is how they knew they were in love, how they fell in love...There is something that Dante does not say, but which one feels at a distance from the episode and perhaps gives it its virtue. Dante relates the fate of the two lovers with an infinite pity, and we sense that he envies their fate. Paolo and Francesca are in Hell and he will be saved, but they have loved and he never won the love of the woman he loved, Beatrice. There is a certain injustice to this, and Dante must feel it as something terrible, now that he is separated from her. In contrast, these two sinners are together. They cannot speak to each other, they turn in the black whirlwind without hope, yet they are together. When she speaks, she says 'we,' speaking for the two of them, another form of being together. They are together for eternity: they share Hell--and that, for Dante, must have been a kind of Paradise."

@Jane4077 2 жыл бұрын

You met Andre Aciman 😍😍😍😍 How fantastic!

@josephinegirardin2605 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully done Carolyn!💛

@benmartizz8238 2 жыл бұрын

It's always a delight to see a new video from Carolyn!

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Ben!

@to.ynotdfauhn5399 2 жыл бұрын

Right?! 🌻🤗🤗

@teresak2022 2 жыл бұрын

I loved every second of this video! This summer travelling through Europe I also got to see some of these sculptures which makes it even more exciting 🤍 thanks for always motivating people to read classics! x

@lydia3328 2 жыл бұрын

Part 2!!!!!! Hooray!!!!! Enjoyed

@martasgreatlibrary 2 жыл бұрын

as someone who almost double majored in english and art history after taking an art history course in high school this series of videos makes me heart go very fast!!!!!!!! last semester i had to write a short creative essay for a class on american literature and we had to pair a painting with a text we had studied and it was one of my favourite tasks i've been asked to do so far at uni!

@mymessynotebook2207 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video so much!! Kaleidoscope sounds so beautiful and can’t wait to pick the collection up!

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad! Ahhh I hope you enjoy it! :)

@neverbored 2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a thoughtful recommendation list! Loved this video!!!!

@resa_reads 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reading the short story to us 🍂 as always, beautiful video :) Love you so much 🤎

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Love you so much too Theresa! 🤗❤️

@slavabart7845 2 жыл бұрын

Given your combination of interests you might like a few examples of Russian visual art. There is a documentary about a great director-artist couple, The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film. Yuri Norstein, the director, is known for his innovative and incredibly meticulous cut-out technique, for taking animation as seriously as painters of the past did their works, for a rich visual style which draws on great art like da Vinci, Picasson, Rembrandt and Russian icon painting, and for the great poetic depth and beauty of his animated tales. He has been working on a single animation work for over 40 years now, an adaptation of Gogol's The Overcoat. In one of your videos you say you have an interest in depictions of hands - you might like the hands in this animator's work. Some books by and about him are available in English (e.g. Hedgehog in the Fog). He has also written a fabulous, rich and unique two-volume reflection on art, creativity and animation, called Snow on the Grass, but I think at the moment it's only available in Russian. Another thing I would recommend is a movie called Russian Ark, directed by Alexander Sokurov. I think it suits you perfectly, with your love of Tolstoy, Pushkin, literature and art. It's an acclaimed film, set entirely within The Hermitage Museum in St Peterburg, a dreamlike costume-drama recreation of Virginia Woolf-like moments across 300 years of Russian history. It features glimpses of Pushkin, Peter The Great, Catherine the Great, Tsar Nicholas II. It ends with a ball of the sort you might see in a Tolstoy novel. There is something Tolstoyan about the scope and grandeur and tenderness of the film. Different spaces of the museum palace, artworks, multiple timelines, whispered ruminations on Russian history. I know this director's work well and share his philosophy which foregrounds culture (especially literature and museums) as a way of organizing society and crossing national boundaries. You can find trailers and excerpts, and there is a documentary called In One Breath.

@milaces1323 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I loved the video where you did this with paintings so i'll grab a cup of tea and watch this asap! 😊

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad! I hope you enjoy this one as well! ✨

@morganecachia6501 2 жыл бұрын

What a fantastic video ! Thank you for these recommendations 🥰

@talithacosta6818 2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to this video all day. I loved it! Amazing video ❤️❤️❤️🤩

@doowopshopgal 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video with wonderful book recommendations. You have such a wonderful heart

@mizuki0328 2 жыл бұрын

I'd say that two books that remind me immediately of the veiled ladies are The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas (son), they both fit the romantic look of the sculptures, and the ladies' grief reminds me of the tragedy of Marguerite Gautier. For the rape of Proserpina I'd recommend Trojan Woman, by Euripides, the brutal, beautiful, tragic tale of the women of Troy after their husbands/fathers/sons/brothers were defeated at the war and still one of the most amazing anti-war manifests ever written. I'd say it also fits the Pietà, for the loss of a son. For Nike, although I definitely agree with the person who recommended Les Misérables, when Carolyn talked about it being a beacon in an island, I was reminded of Circe by Madelline Miller, alone in her island, almost herself, too, a symbol.

@alexandrazibritovska870 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this with my whole heart!!!

@luvbb23 2 жыл бұрын

Relatively new viewer, but loving all your content! Have you seen portrait of a lady on fire? That's my movie recommendation based on your book recommendations ha!

@divinedia 2 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous!

@skyedh100 2 жыл бұрын

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS VIDEO EXISTED?? ? I'm a history of art student and a major book nerd and this is preeeetty much my dream video

@MartinDSmith 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful exposition!What comes to mind for the Pieta is an Italian movie called Cuore Sacro(2005),where the heroine of the piece cradles a man in compassion in the apposite pose.It's a beautiful movie if you ever get to see it:you will thank me profusely.😁My love to you and Willow!

@christbianchi 2 жыл бұрын

Love these recommendations!!

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad 😄

@paulinar505 2 жыл бұрын

Your voice would be perfect for a podcast. Love listening to you talk about art, history and literature! Maybe think about it for later on? :)

@Felidae-ts9wp 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Carolyn. I'am a new subscriber to your channel and am loving your videos. And your 🐶 is adorable 🐕💕

@sarahsperusals 2 жыл бұрын

when your favorite sculpture is ugolino and his sons but no book discusses inter familial cannibalism 😔😔😔

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHA my mission will be to try and find one for you!

@sarahsperusals 2 жыл бұрын

@@CarolynMarieReads true friendship ❤️

@ophelia.underwater 2 жыл бұрын

Well you know the saying, if you can't find what you love, create it. 😂😂❤

@sarahsperusals 2 жыл бұрын

@@ophelia.underwater on it 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

@outofoblivionproductions4015 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite novel is 'Anna Karenina' too. You also mentioned 'Tess of the D'urbivilles' which I loved. So I am going to venture into some of your Russian picks (hopefully, talk is cheap haha). Some recommendations of mine: Victor Hugo's 'Notre dame du Paris' (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Honere De'Balzac's 'Cousin Bette', 'The Scarlett Pimpernel' and 'Jude the Obscure' (by that Tess author). The most brilliant poem ever is Dante Alighieri's 'The Divine Comedy'. You are so lucky to be Italian, and yes it is daunting. I love Dorothy L. Sayer's translation by Penguin because the study notes are SO helpful. Also have you seen 'My Brilliant Friend'- the drama series. It is so good. Based on the books by Elena Ferrante. I want to read these too. And I don't want to be a smarty-pants but the Bible is not a book, but a series of books. It's important to mention this because someone picking it up and starting to read it will soon think , what a strange book haha.

@tine272 2 жыл бұрын

ahhh so creative! love it

@CarolynMarieReads 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🥰❤️

@dariostevens250 2 жыл бұрын

Reading more italian would be verey interesting!

@BMTitus 2 жыл бұрын

If you do a video about photography and books I hope you will include my favorite photograph, Blessed Art Thou among Women by Gertrude Kasebier.

@ba-gg6jo 2 жыл бұрын

Goethe's Faust for me along with Thomas Mann's 'Doctor Faustus', though my favourite book by Thomas Mann is 'Magic Mountain'

@kristina.478 2 жыл бұрын

The video is inspiring and enjoyable, thank you :) I really like Pietà sculpture and if we speak about a strong mother-son relationship in literature, I highly recommend the novel “Book of My Mother” by Albert Cohen. The novel is just INCREDIBLE, it is sorrowful and beautiful. And when you mentioned books that deal with rape, I immediately thought about the novel I’ve finished this week: “Towards Beauty” by David Foenkinos (the book was read in French, but I know the novel is translated in English). This book is also about art (especially painting) and its healing capacity.

@Youthgirl1999 2 жыл бұрын

Please please consider selling your book cover designs as book jackets on Etsy! I would buy every single one of them!!!

@subtlefire7256 2 жыл бұрын

The jolt that went through me at the mention of Tess of the D'Urberviles lol. Don't get me wrong, it was one of my favourite books of last year, but wow, it made me so furious.

@rosanaamira274 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, my dear Carolyn, I made a link in Brazilian Literature at University between the painter Tarsila do Amaral' paintings and Modernism in "Week of Modern Art" in 1922 in Brazil. Thanks for inspiring us!

@myratogonon 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you dear Caroline

@hwelf11 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to recommend another novel inspired by a sculpture which did not make it into your list of favorites: The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The sculpture is the Faun of Praxiteles, which is described at the beginning of the novel. The main male character is named after the sculptor Donatello; he is said to bear an uncanny resemblance to the Faun sculpture. If you or any of your followers enjoy opera, I would also suggest two works which are somewhat off the beaten track, but well worth getting to know: 1) Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai - there is a beautiful DVD with Domingo and Scotto from the 80's 2) Daphne by Richard Strauss - several excellent recordings on CD

@stephenblair2554 2 жыл бұрын

In addition to Ovid I recommend Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis, which retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche

@jiji-wr3qh 2 жыл бұрын

grat idea for a video - would appreciate more video content like this

@silviafrassineti5214 2 жыл бұрын

Hi , I am following your channel for some time now, but I haven't commented. As Italian I would say read Dante, don't be daunted, read believing that he really went through hell purgatory and paradise you will enjoy. I promise. Thank you for all your videos. You and Emmie are coming me back to my love of books and of classics, so a big Thank you ❤️

@emilmorea7000 2 жыл бұрын

So fascinating presentation inspire on the great sculptures with the classic book. Especially, Michelangelo's David on the Prince of Machiavelli that make me through the past when i was political philosophy student. Oh you must be know The Prince is the Flexible Rock of me.

@c.s.hayden3022 2 жыл бұрын

This is some kind of synesthesia. Interesting takes.

@shree7340 4 ай бұрын

👌🏻

@mishelly 2 жыл бұрын

You should consider narrating audiobooks!

@melissabraganepomuceno8384 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@louistoledo7760 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Carolyn I would like to recommend a book to you that just came out today. It is a new version of Ulysses by James Joyce. It is illustrated by Eduardo Arroyo. It is huge and filled with unique illustrations. It has tons of them. I think you would really love it based on what I have seen in your videos.