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venus rising: and no boyfriend in sight
She was the perfect beauty. Beloved of prince and painter, Simonetta Vespucci was the Renaissance ideal. … The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again in the art of Sandro Botticelli, Early Italian Renaissance painter. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Claudio Angelini, David Bellingham, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Ghirlandaio, Guiliano de' Medici, Lorenzo Medici, Marco de Marinis, Michelangelo, Piero di Cosimo, Sharon Fermor, Simonetta Vespucci, Vasari, Venus and Aphrodite
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bliss is golden: balancing act of invisible glory
A is to B as B is to C. See? But, seeing is not always believing.How does one mediate opposites which appear contradictory and hostile to one another? Jung suggested a transcendent function which is a combination of conscious and … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Botticelli, Carl Jung, De Stijl, E.H. Gombrich, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonardo Da Vinci, luca pacioli, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, roberto assagioli, Sandro Botticelli, Sigmund Freud, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Theo Van Doesburg
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PERSPECTIVE ON A VANISHING POINT: THE MATHEMATICS OF OBSESSION
“It was said of Uccello that the discovery of perspective had so impressed him that he spent nights and days drawing objects in foreshortening, and setting himself ever new problems. His fellow artists used to tell that he was so … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andrea Mantegna, Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Della Carda, Donatello, Donatello Gattamelata, E.H. Gombrich, E.H. Gomrich, Filippo Brunelleschi, Gentile Bellini, Giacomo Trivulzio, Jan van Eyck, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paolo Uccello, Pieter van Eyck, Renaissance Art, Rick Steves, Riemann, Uccello, Van Eyck, Vasari
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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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DANTE & DIVINE COMEDY of EXILE
”in every man … a demon lies hidden — the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain. (The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky)” Dante lived in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Botticelli, Carsten Svennson, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Delacroix, Dostoevsky, Henry Holiday, Howl, Italian Renaissance, Joseph Conrad, Michelino, Rennaisance, Salvador dali, The Divine Comedy, William Blake, William Carlos Williams
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PRIMAVERA AND THE HERMETIC OCTAVE
Interpreting the mythology of a work of art may fall under the domain of the art sleuth, and an intrepid one at that.Take for example Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ”Primavera”. Those who are willing to settle for a poetical tableau and … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, Chloris, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Florence, Giorgio Vassari, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, Leonardo Da Vinci, Medici, Michael Hayes, Neo-Platonism, Pico, Pico della Mirandola, Pico Oration, Plato, Plotinus, Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, Savonarola, The Hermetic Octave, Walter Ulmam, Zephyr
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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