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Tag Archives: George Stubbs paintings
art of undermining confidence
It is no wonder scientists are often impatient with the humanities leading to conclusions they are absurd or trivial or both, and often with good cause. But, there is a growing danger, as science grows, of the humanities being pushed … Continue reading
the tiger: tiger stories
Last tiger hunts….Between the tiger hunter and his prey lies India itself. Nineteenth-century villagers could venerate the European hunter with a gaudy parade, or just as easily revile him for killing the one animal that kept the ferocious wild pig … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George Schaller, George Stubbs paintings, India tiger conservation, K. Sankhala studies tiger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharajah of Nepal, Maharajah of Surguja, Sawrey Gilpin painter, William Hodges paintings, William Simpson painting
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darwin: insufferable biding of time
…The voyage of the Beagle was, as he said himself, the formative experience of Darwin’s life. He lived hard, working in the cramped conditions of a sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn and making expeditions hundreds of miles inland through dangerous … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, George Stubbs paintings, J. B. Lamarck, Jeremy Bentham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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something about them
A French noble’s view. However grand the English country houses seemed to Anglo-Saxon eyes, they made quite a different impression on a noble visitor from the Continent. The Comte de Mirabeau, who traveled to London in 1784, left this account … Continue reading
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