Tag Archives: Constantine The Great

mercy mercy them: the H word

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albigensian Crusade, Arnaud Amalric, Cathar Crusade, Christian Heresies, Constantine Christianity, Constantine Roman Emperor, Constantine The Great, Duke de Montpensier, Gottfried Arnold, King Henry III, Pope Innocent III, Puritanism, Puritanism Christian heresy, ross douthat, Simon IV de Montfort, St. Bartholomew Day Massacre | Leave a comment

LET HE WHO CASTS THE FIRST BRONZE

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Dave

The long history of bronze has had many dark ages spaced through it, and the lost sculptures overwhelmingly outnumber the survivals. Among them the bronze Colossus of Rhodes, a wonder of the world, stood a hundred and twenty feet high … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander the Great, Barisanus Sculpture, Bonnano sculptures, bronze sculpture, Celtic Tomb Vix Burgundy, Charlemagne, Church of San Antonio at Padua, Constantine The Great, Dark Ages, Dinanderie, Dinant on the Meuse, Donatello Gattamelata, Donatello Sculpture, Florentine Baptistry, Ghiberti Doors of paradise, Ghiberti Sculpture, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Master of Hildesheim sculpture, Michelangelo, Oderisius Sculptures, Pope paul III, Renier of Huy, Sargon Akkadian King, St. John Lateran, Tell Judeideh | 2 Comments

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Dave

”THAT is no country for old men… caught in that sensual music all neglect, Monuments of unageing intellect.” W.B. Keats from Sailing to Byzantium. All the world’s wealth seemed to pour through the trade routes of the Levant, overland from … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Basil II Bulgaroctonos, Byzantine Empire, Chora Museum Instanbul, Constantine The Great, Digenes Akritas, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, Kariye Cami, Kariye Camii, Renaissance Italy, Sack of Constantinople, Theodore Metochites, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium | Leave a comment

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

”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 →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | 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 | Leave a comment

WHERE THE WEST WAS WON

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Dave

The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading →