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essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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laff tracks : avoiding the food for worms fate
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” or nature over intellect, laughing matter over mind, what is livelier in the flesh over what is nobler in the mind. Who needs intangibles. And the happiest tale … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Davide Ghirlandaio, henry goddard psychologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Odysseus, Paolo Conte, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Henry IV, Shakespeare Hotspur
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A Paradise not what its made out to be
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Only now perhaps, in our present new age of folly, can its meaning be made clear. Today we take a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de la Roche, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dante Divine Comedy, Dante Inferno, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Hieronymous Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Laurinda Dixon, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler, Tom Schiller
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knowing the dancer from the dance
In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats
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trilogy of a divine comedy: purgatory, passion and produce
Measured against the accelerating transformation of our own society, the Renaissance seems like a relatively minor cultural revolution in the history of humanity.Futurologists like Alvin Toffler suggest that the changing conditions of life we are now experiencing are so profound … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arcimboldo, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Edmund Dulac, George Grosz, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Giotto Frescoes, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymous Bosch, Jack Rusher, Jape, Jape floating, Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Robert Fulford, RObert Stevenhagen, Roberto Bolano, Saint Francis of Assisi, Salvador dali, Sam Fell, Sylvio Leidi, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, William Blake
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MANNERIST GARDEN: Dreams, Spirits and Sacred Wood
The Garden of Bomarzo…. The artists that the garden has inspired include Niki de Saint Phalle and the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, who incorporated some of its images into his paintings and who was once photographed holding a candle and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Ginastera, Bomarzo Garden, Christopher McIntosh, Colin Wilson, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Francesco Colonna, Horst Bredekamp, Jean Cocteau, Jessie Sheeler, John Tranter, Mark Edward Smith, Mujica Lainez, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pirro Ligorio, Salvador dali, Vicino Orsini
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