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Tag Archives: Barberini Ivory
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM
”They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony:they read, they praised, they compiled. but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Anastasius Byzantine, Barberini Ivory, Byzantine Art, Byzantium, Constantine The Great, Edward Gibbon, Hagia Sophia, Jesus, Justin II Byzantium, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, True Cross in Jerusalem, True Cross Vatican, W.B. Yeats, William Lecky
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AS THE WORLD URNS
The Barberini vase or Portland Vase as it became known as, is the most famous cameo-glass vessel from antiquity. it has been studied for centuries by scholars trying to determine its original utilitarian purpose and the perplexing meaning of its … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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Tagged Barberini Ivory, Barberini Vase, British Museum, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Cardinal Francesco Maria Borbone del Monte, Duke of Portland, Emma Hamilton, Erasmus Darwin, Faustina Antoninus, Josiah Wedgewood, Jupiter and Olympias, Lesley Pyke, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Margaret Duchess of Portland, Medea and Jason, Portland vase, Sir William Hamilton, Theseus and Amphitrite, William Lloyd, William lloyd Portland Vase, Wolf Mankowitz, Zeus and Leda
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