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joan of arc as my bellona: a strumpet of a pucelle?
Poor Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were only the beginning in the saga of the fluctuations of Joan’s fame that has run the gamut from anger and awe, skepticism and adoration… Since the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolphe-Alexandre Dillens, Charles VII King of France, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hume, Francois Villon, Jean d'Estiver Promoter Joan of Arc, Jean le Maistre vice inquisitor, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Joan of Arc Trial, Jules Quicherat, Luc Besson director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, The Messenger movie, The Vigils of Charles VII, Voltaire Joan of Arc
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bizarre love triangles : black moon rising
Booted out of Paradise? Lilith as the first mistress and well-spring of promiscuity, both real and imagined? There has always been some perplexing inconsistencies in the Old Testament; a kind of lost narrative between the Greek Septuagint, the Dead Sea … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Samuels, Anita Sarkeesian, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dead Sea Scrolls, frank dicksee, Gershom Scholem, Greta Garbo, J.W. Waterhouse, john collier lilith, john collier painter, John Keats, John William Waterhouse, joseph heath, judith plastow, louis ginzberg, Madonna, michael walzer, perle besserman, rabbi jill hammer, rebecca honig friedman, Rick Salutin, Salka Viertel, thomas frank the baffler
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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McMahon White, Aphrodite, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger, Bronzino, Claude Verlinde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Grote, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lucas Cranach, N.S. Gill, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli, Schliemann Troy, Shaft Graves Greece, Tracy Marks, Trojan War, Velasquez, Venus de Milo, Werner Keller the Bible as History, Woody Allen, Zeus and Ganymede, Zeus and Leda
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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