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Tag Archives: Erasmus
heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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right place wrong time
The winds that buffeted Erasmus of Rotterdam blew from more than one direction. One form of intolerance he might have withstood, but two were too many. That was the tragedy of Europe’s first liberal…. Erasmus is more than any other … Continue reading
go to hell: gimme shelter
It was the profoundly pessimistic, mad, hopeless, irredeemable, almost insane world of Hieronymus Bosch. Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as the enigmatic, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”; in our own hedonistic, instantly gratifying … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Erasmus, Fraenger, Franz Kafka, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sebastien Brant Ship of Fools, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Fraenger
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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever
A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin
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free slaves on the ship of fools
Or stories about people sailing around their soul. Was Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” as puzzling as it claims to be. Perhaps only now, in our era of instant gratification, impatience for pleasure and fascination for a world in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Antonin Artaud, Erasmus, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hieronymous Bosch, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Stanley Meisler
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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS
Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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