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high on the hog: boastful splendiferous types
…Of what there is no doubt is that this life was wasteful, extravagant, ostentatious- an appalling contrast, as Dr. Samuel Johnson noted, to the human wretchedness of rural or urban slums; yet it was saved both by its humanity and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Earl of Egremont, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Stubbs, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Johann Zoffany, John Berger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Madame Pickwick, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth
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like a lady
Lord Egremont got involved with her; he never did choose to settle down in marriage with some suitably rich and wellborn girl. He suffered, his critics alleged, from “indiscretion and irresolution.” What was more, he had fallen under the spell … Continue reading
A COMPLEX HIDDEN SPIRIT:OBSCURED BY THE SUN
Atmospherics, visions and hallucinations. A pathological obsession with light. Turner’s paintings, while both beautiful, and ahead of their time, are still considered to be the black sheep of their time. Their unorthodox nature may have overshadowed his goal of bringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Holme, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, Ed Voves, George Wyndham, Hannah Danby, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Jon Anderson Yes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Maev Kennedy, Sarah Danby, Simon Schama, Turner, Yes Fragile, Yes Heart of the Sunrise
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AWAKENED INTO A MYSTIC DARKNESS:THE FALLACY OF HOPE
We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Apollo and Daphne, Charles Holme, Christopher Hitchens, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, English Painting, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Jacopo Sannazaro, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kaulbach, Nicolas Poussin, Ovid, Simon Schama, Sir Philip Sidney, Van Morrison, Virgil Thomson, Virgil Thomson Liberty, Walter Fawkes, William Hazlitt
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