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forget the formula
It is not a picture that follows any compositional formula very closely. Yet, it is still organized with a high degree of definition. A question to ask is how Mantegna has organized the multitude of precisely executed detail into a … Continue reading
are what you eat
You are what you eat? Heed the advice of Ibn Botlan, author of the first best-selling health manual, the Tacuinum Sanitatis….The advice offered was enhanced by the lively miniature images from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that bordered on the … Continue reading
death of republics: beware of feuding nobles
What kills representative government? It is not always the mob. It is one of the revealing curiosities of history that the founders of the American republic were none to sanguine about the viability of republican government. It began with the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Bernadette Paton, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Italian City States, John E. Law, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marvin B. Becker, P.J. Jones Italian city-states, William M. Bowsky
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at the speed of a mouse: ease of epiphany
Battle of the prophets? Back a thousand years ago, the Jewish sage Maimonides had no illusions about an Islamic Golden Age. For a Jew it was a precarious existence and he thought and witnessed the particular animus of Muslim culture … Continue reading
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Tagged alastair campbell, Andrea Mantegna, B.F. Skinner, carrie bradshaw, doug saunders globe and mail, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Ed Milibrand, Giotto di Bordone, Islamic Conversions, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides in Egypt, Mark Steyn
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but you’re knocked on your ass
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) … ALI! my vote for ‘man of the 20th century’. i don’t think you can make a list of true heroes of mind and conscience and just plain LIFE without putting him near the top. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, art chantry, esquire magazine covers george lois, george lois, george lois MOMA, harold hayes esquire, jack nicholson, jacob javits, Muhammed Ali, muhammed ali 70th birthday, warren magnusen
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Tempesta: enigma of of visual poetry
It is a rhetoric of enigma and the art of indeterminacy. Behind this curtain is a paradox of narrative mystification. Giorgione is the most mysterious and perhaps the greatest of all Venetian Renaissance artists- but only a handful of paintings … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Baldassare Castiglione, Christopher S. Wood, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Ernst Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, James Elkins, John Keats, Julia Luisa Abramson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maurizio Calvesi, Michelangelo, Raphael, Taddeo Contarini, Vasari Lives
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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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