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we need the pillows : sleeping on “waning skepticism”
From the mouth of Harold Bloom. From his quill to god’s scribe. He represents the archetype of the Gnostic personality. If there is a gnostic personality disorder Bloom is a carrier, transmitter and is chronically infected. Or as he puts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Charles Lamb, cima da conegliano, dan geddes, david rosenberg, Dirck Bouts, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, john collier, jonathan rosen, lawrence Alma-Tadema, pauline pistis, Sam Harris, Wallace Stevens, William Blake
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good bye dear pictures
Cardinal Mazarin was the real ruler of France during the boyhood of Louis XIV and one of the greatest collectors in the history of art. The Bibliotheque Nationale was once the Cardinal’s private palace. It was here, a few days … Continue reading
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Tagged Annibile Carraci, art forgeries, artemisia Gentileschi, Cardinal Mazarin, carracci deluge, Correggio, Donald Posner, jonathan richardson, jonathan richardson art, Lanfranco, mazarin chest, rembrandt king uzzia, Sebastien Bourdon
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when the abyss stares back
You have to question one of the basic axioms of Western life, a foundational myth of the enlightenment that “civilized” society values human life. That a life is precious. Sanctified. Or rather, an eye for an eye. A tooth for … Continue reading
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Tagged a.j. heschel, Al Sharpton, Albert Camus, artemisia Gentileschi, B.F. Skinner, Ben Shahn, ben shahn the passion of sacco and vanzetti, d. elton trueblood, eli cohen spy, Francisco Goya, goya the third of may, john c. woods, john f. mortimer, rick perry texas, robert e. conot, tom sachs artist, troy davis execution, victor hugo capital punishment, victor hugo death penalty
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MANTEGNA: MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC & THE TERRIBLE
The gruesome, the tragic and the triumphant that could be depicted with paradoxical decorative elegance. His manner was prickly, his life was mundane and methodical, his painting was poised and static; why then should he have so much power to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardino da Parenzo, Caravaggio, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Gilbert de Bourbon, Giorgio Vasari, Gustave Dore, Isabelle d'Este, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Keith Christianson, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Nick Milne, Paul Kristeller, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Robert Hughes, Squarcione, Vasari
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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Ark of the Covenant, artemisia Gentileschi, Augustus Kolich, Biblical Jael, Biblical Judith, Biblical Salome, David reynolds, David S. Reynolds, Emperor Vespasian, Herb Mandel, Lucas Cranach, Menorah of the temple, Mortara Incident, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pope Pius IX, Reuven Kashani, Sandro Botticelli, Temple Menorah, The Marble Faun, Thomas Cooley
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