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Tag Archives: Ernst Gombrich
how republics die: flaws in the communes
How republics die. What kills representative governments? It is not always the mob. … …Outwardly at least, the Italian communes of medieval times were utterly new organisms and their inhabitants utterly new men. Between the surrounding feudal order and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambroglio Lorenzetti, Berlinghiero painter, Bernadette Paton, Ernst Gombrich, Italian City States, Italian communes medieval, John E. Law, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marvin B. Becker, Philip Jones author, Pietro Lorenzetti, William M. Bowsky
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bruegel: keeping identity with nature
For Pieter Bruegel the Elder, man is faulty, he is potentially noble, and that his existence is legitimized by his position as an integral but not central unit of the cosmos- although not within such arbitrarily neat compartments. Rejecting the … Continue reading
bruegel: too busy for the cosmic rhythm
…The only concept of the nature of things that seems never to have occurred to Bruegel is our objective scientific one by which the cosmos becomes something physically explicable, and hence godless. As for Bruegel’s god, his religious affiliation can … Continue reading
bruegel: cripple creek
At the popular level, Bruegel’s fantastic drolleries are taken at face value. A curious and delightful painter. At his true level, when these obvious charms are recognized as nothing but a pictorial skin, Bruegel is discoverable as an extraordinarily complex … Continue reading
bruegel: human foibles
…A sober philosophy of man’s place in nature… Bruegel’s recognition of human foibles never reduced him to bitterness, or at least never to any discernible in his group. From the mass of it we can deduce that he regarded misanthropy … Continue reading
miniature adoration: story of O
Songs sung blue…. One of the loveliest miniature paintings of the Italian Renaissance is this “Adoration of the magi” by Girolamo of Cremona. The swirling dolphins, fruits and vines that surround the holy scene almost obscure the fact that the … Continue reading
imaginary museum
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Andre Malraux recalled Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shares their infatuation with the past, their conviction that it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Arnold Toynbee, Clara Malraux, Ernst Gombrich, Germaine Krull, Imaginary Museum Malraux, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Chevasson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Oswald Spengler, stieg larsson
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venus rising: and no boyfriend in sight
She was the perfect beauty. Beloved of prince and painter, Simonetta Vespucci was the Renaissance ideal. … The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again in the art of Sandro Botticelli, Early Italian Renaissance painter. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Claudio Angelini, David Bellingham, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Ghirlandaio, Guiliano de' Medici, Lorenzo Medici, Marco de Marinis, Michelangelo, Piero di Cosimo, Sharon Fermor, Simonetta Vespucci, Vasari, Venus and Aphrodite
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hunting in our own snow
Such an effort to hit the trail for running as autumn, the compound interest of shorter days upon the pressing consideration of motivation and lack thereof, the dynamic of gravity and general inertia, and ultimately, a Viktor Frankl style will … Continue reading
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