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"Joseph Sheppard, versatile artist with magic hands..." |
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Il Terrano |
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"Sheppard's technique in painting and sculpture follows those of Rubens and Michelangelo." |
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Quark Magazine |
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"Sheppard an American in Versilia, grown in the shadows of Bernini and Rubens...makes mature breathtaking compositions. And in sculpture takes 'Michelangeloesque' forms from the marble mountains of the Apuane." |
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Arte Magazine |
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"Dream with the Sublime Art of Sheppard ... The results documented on the canvases portray an astonishing anatomical perfection." |
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La Nazione |
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"... revealing an eclectic taste, a knowledge of representation of the beautiful and real, that continues to astonish his admirers." |
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Liberta Newspaper |
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"An Art Show not to be missed... Fifty Years of Art represent the story of a life..." | ||
Grapevine Italy, October 2001 |
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"... Sheppard sees himself as continuing in the tradition of the Old Master painters such as Rubens or Van Dyck two northern European artists whose painting technique he has mastered." |
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Herald Tribune |
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"Sheppard breaths the creative atmosphere emanated by the Apuane Alps, the planes of Luni and the Tyrrhenian Sea. From these three elements, to which you add his technical skills you obtain the greatness of his art" |
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La Lunigiana |
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"Sheppard is the champion of figurative art always with an eye to his great skill, the knowledge of anatomy." |
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La Nazione |
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"... Realism of ferocious penetration." |
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Corriere della Sera |
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