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Tag Archives: Caravaggio
complicit in a sense of magic
A Caravaggio Cinema Noir Christmas. Plotting. Sex. Love Triangles.Santa has seen it all.
where evil lurks
Discarding the ideas of wild and pervasive divine supervision,of animals with the souls of men and women, and how evil and villainy can exist in the world under such scrutiny, has long troubled humanity. The world may be short of … Continue reading
hindsight is a rear-view mirror
and sometimes the small print on that mirror reads, “objects appear larger than they really are.” Disrupting the natural course of history… …Historians know that at times the change was fuzzier, less immediate, and they tend to seize on the … Continue reading
Bernini and one side of the moat
Bernini. Are the roots of heaven made of stone? The vision of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini… Bernini appeared just at the moment when the papacy was going through its most intensive phase of art patronage. To commission great works and support … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernini, Bernini sculpture Rome, Caravaggio, Catholic Counter Reformation, Council of Trent, Daniele da Volterra, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Sistine Chapel, Pedro de Foix Montoya, Pope Innocent X, Pope Innocent XI
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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan
This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Bob Dylan, Caravaggio, Daniel Sperber, Emperor Tiberius, Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Katsav, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlomo Amar, Tacitus Roman Historian, Temple at Didyma, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Woody Allen
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love was the clue
For most moderns, devout worshipers or not, Saint Francis represents the appreciation of love of nature, of the physical world, of mere wonderful earth and fire and water. This was one of Francis’s discoveries, revelations. Of course the men of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Berlinghieri Saint Francis, Bishop Guido of Assisi, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Caravaggio, Caravaggio Saint Francis, Jan Brueghel, Lambert de Hondt, Lambert de Hondt the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, October 4th St. Francis of Assisi feast day, Oportulo mayor of Assisi, Rubens The Lion's Den, Saint Francis Blessing of the Animals, Saint Francis hawk at La Verna, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis Song of the Creatures, Saint Francis with the Animals, sarah mclachlan, Willem van Herp the Elder
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fauning the big try
Yet, at the height of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powers, with a sounder preparation than any American contemporary for fictional tasks still uncompleted, he wrote no fiction to speak of. Like many American writers who followed him, he had come up to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Bronson Alcott, Caravaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Harold Bloom, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun, Ralph Waldeau Enerson, The Scarlet Letter
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black silver: brushes in shining armor
We heard it confirmed this week that Michael’s will be opening a dozen stores in Quebec over the next I imagine six to eight months, and they plan on predatory pricing for art supplies at 50% off, a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, Charlie Chaplin, De Serres stores, FM Brush, FM Brush black silver, Gustave Dore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael's Quebec, monty python and the holy grail, omer de serres
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bandits with brush holsters
Just received some travel cases from Silverbrush for short handled brushes. The Monaco and Tuscany. $12 each and well made. When you think of all the gadgets and accessories that exist you have to wonder what people did in the … Continue reading
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
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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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