The Pozzi
The Pozzi
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| Francesca Miller is a writer who has spent most of her literary life working as an entertainment journalist and movie reviewer in print, on-line and on radio. She has interviewed a plethora of Hollywood luminaries, written numerous “puff pieces” and critiqued hundreds of films. After seven years working in the entertainment press, she could not bear sitting through another mediocre studio offering or interviewing one more vapid actor. Her interest had always been historical and her first manuscript, The Boston Gothic Book, a Victorian period piece, required massive amounts of research and ultimately led her to the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. |
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| She is a long-time admirer of the work of Sargent’s and had seen Dr. Pozzi at Home on the opening day of the Armand Hammer Museum. The handsome subject of the portrait remained a mystery even to the museum staff.In her search to uncover the truth about this remarkable personage, she stumbled on an article by Dr. Caroline de Costa with 19th Century gynecology as the subject. When she e-mailed Dr. de Costa, she was delighted to discover that Caroline was traveling to the Wellcome Library in London to learn more about the brilliant Doctor Pozzi. The rest, as they say, is history. To contact Francesca, click here. |
| Dr. Caroline de Costa is a medical doctor and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns, Australia. Born and raised down under, Caroline studied medicine in Ireland then returned to Australia to practice. She is the author of numerous books and articles on medical history and medical topics for non-medical readers. She has written extensively on the work of Dr. J. Marion Sims, the controversial father of American gynecology and as Pozzi’s biographer is an expert in his life and medical method. In addition Caroline is a student of French history and culture and is well recognized for her expertise in 19th Century medical procedures especially as they pertain to women’s health. Recently Caroline has become a political activist in her native country. As a crusader for women’s health issues and reproductive rights, she is currently seeking clearance for the banned abortion pill, RU 486, in her native country. To contact Caroline, click here |
| After forty years of working for a multinational pharmaceutical company in Paris area, researcher- biologist Alain Bugnicourt retired and decided to use his leisure time to share his interest in medicine, the sciences and history with the world via the World Wide Web. Alain is also a researcher specializing in transmissible diseases and infectious diseases, protozoonoses and has spent ten years of research on AIDS. In addition to sharing his knowledge of the Pozzi family with the English speaking work, Alain also a genealogist and traced the origins of Pozzi family for us. Alain is receptive to sharing ideas (with those of you who speak French, that is) in the areas of human pathology, the history of biology and medicine, of prehistory, food hygiene and natural history. He took many of the photos for this web site and also found many interesting facts about the elusive Doctor Pozzi. Curious French speakers can contact Alain via his web site or e-mail him at cyberbiologie@free.fr |
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| Wade Major is a founding partner in Lake/Major Productions. In addition to producing the feature-length documentary Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies, which played to sold-out audiences at both the Silver Lake Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival, he was commissioned to produce and direct two short films – Sculptress and Sea Servant – for the Silver Lake Film Festival’s Veritas Project. As a journalist and film critic, he is a member of the LA Film Critics and was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, ABCNews.com, L.A. CityBeat and Boxoffice Magazine, for whom he spent thirteen years as Sr. Film Critic. As an author, he has written and contributed to several books on Asian cinema. He holds a degree in Film and Television from UCLA and is fluent in French having studied the language since chidhood and lived in France for two years. He is presently working on a script about Dr. Pozzi. |
| Patrick Soluri is a young composer specializing in dramatic orchestral music for ballet, opera and film. Highlights and commissions include the two ballets Ngoni and Madame X as well as the operatic works Inferno of Dante: Canto V, Dialogue on Time Upon the New Millennium and Figaro's Last Hangover. His work has been reviewed in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the NY Daily News and Back Stage. Mr. Soluri has worked, studied and collaborated with many prominent composers, conductors, performing artists and organizations. We are elated to present selections from the Madame X Ballet on our site. To hear more of the work of this dazzling talent, please visit Patrick's site. To e-mail Patrick, click here. |
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Natasha Wallace, the curator and founder of the John Singer Sargent Virtual
Gallery, the most extensive source of information about the esteemed artist found
in one place on the planet. Natasha, a web designer and somewhat of an aficionado of
19th century portraiture, is an expert on all things Sargent. Her gallery also happens to
be, at present, the largest English language source of information on Pozzi. As she noted
in a recent article "John Singer Sargent's oeuvre is extremely broad, and yet given the number
of works I've dealt with digitally at the JSS Gallery over six plus years, Dr. Pozzi at
Home is consistently one of the three or four paintings that elicits intense visceral
feelings from visitors. Whether the people know who Dr. Pozzi was or not, Sargent somehow tapped
into a vein of energy that makes people unable to look away. The power is palpable and transcends
time. That Pozzi in life was a man of some charisma gives it that crème de la crème and makes
this painting, to my mind, completely irresistible."
Natasha invites all to take a stroll through her gallery |
| Bruce Winslow was born in Boston, the offspring of an American father and Scottish mother who introduced him to French when he was four years old. Fifteen-year-old Bruce returned to Scotland with his mother to and after mastering the rigors of Scottish secondary education, Bruce and his family moved to London where he became a top student of French. He was accepted as a French major at Bristol University and earned a BA in French literature and language, and an MA in French theatre history, specializing in the comédie-ballets of Molière and Lully. He became an exchange student in Paris for one year, teaching English literature and French-to-English translation at the Sorbonne then studied at Liverpool University with an emphasis on modern language teaching. Bruce earned his PhD in French Literature from Stanford University, studying under the French philosopher, Michel Serres. He spent another year in Paris as an exchange student at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, studying and deepening his interest in Francophone literature, especially Haitian, Caribbean literature under the expert tutelage of scholar Edouard Glissant. Bruce wrote his Stanford doctoral thesis on “The French Myth of Tahiti,” tackling the controversial question of the literature of de-colonization, how cultures view each other, and the extent to which Tahiti became an artifact of the French literary imagination. After the Stanford doctorate, Bruce taught French seventeenth century literature as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, and then taught as a French lecturer at UCLA. |
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| Additional music was provided by Soprano Cynthia Mohorko. Cynthia has performed to great acclaim as both a pianist and soprano in Vienna, Austria; Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany and throughout the United States Pacific Northwest. To learn more about Cynthia and upcoming performances click here |