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NOWHERE PEOPLE: STRANDED IN ''NOWHERESVILLE''
”A few years ago, I told an English professor (who regularly teaches Thomas More’s Utopia in his Renaissance literature courses) that I was preparing to give a paper at a conference of the Society for Utopian Studies. He asked me where the meeting was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anabaptists Munster, Brueghel, Charles Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus, Erhard Schoen, Erhard Schoen Muenster, Erhard Schon, Francis Bacon, Hans Holbein, Henri Pirenne, Jan of Leiden, Jan of Leyden, Martin Luther, Pieter Bruegel, Reginald Pole, Richard H. Robbins, Sir Thomas More, utopianism, Utopias, William Latimer
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GENIUS: A CONDITION OF POWER and HELPLESSNESS
The times they were a’ changing. Albrecht Durer’s goal was to expand the expressive range of German art by bringing it to the expressive disciplines of the Renaissance. The vistas of the Alps, and the breadth and vigor of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Bible, Book of Revelations, Engraving, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John Read, Martin Luther, Michelangelo, New testament, Protestant Reformation, Raphael, Scott Horton, silverpoint
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FROM CRAFTSMAN TO GENTLEMAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PREMISE
Albrecht Durer( 1471-1528 ) is usually called the greatest German artist, despite the importance accorded to Matthias Grunewald, whose more wild and fantastic fervor, even hallucinatory art, is more to the modern taste than Durer’s methodical exploration of the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Frey, Albrecht Durer, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, german art, Italian Renaissance, John Canaday, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Buber, Martin Luther, Matthias Grunewald, Renaissance Art, Wagner
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