标题: Nude Paintings on Loan from Prado to Massachusetts [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-18-2015 13:01 标题: Nude Paintings on Loan from Prado to Massachusetts Robin Pogrebin and Hilarie M Sheets, Once Naughty, Now Masterpieces. New York Times, Dec 18, 2015 (a review in the column Inside Art). http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/1 ... w-masterpieces.html
Note:
(a) "During the culturally repressive late-16th and 17th centuries, Spanish kings often secreted away their nude paintings in rooms known as 'salas reservadas' "
(b) "These types of paintings were considered anathema"
(i) anathema (n; Greek) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anathema
(ii) The anathema is a noun. Then why are both the subject (types) and verb (were) plural, whereas "anathema" is singular? After all, the example in the above link shows anathemas exists. That is because anathema can be used as a "predicate nominative." See definition (1)(b) of "anathema."
(iii) predicative expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicative_expression
(predicative adjectives (also predicate adjectives) and predicative nominals (also predicate nominals); Predicative nominals over subjects are also called predicate nominatives, a term borrowed from Latin grammars)
(c) photo caption: "Rubens’s 'Fortuna' (1636-38) will be alighting at the Clark Art Institute along with two dozen or so nudes from the Prado."
(i) Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640; Dutch)
(ii) Fortuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna