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palladio no palladian
Was Palladio a Palladian? The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… It is an odd thesis to assert that Andrea Palladio is unknown. If any architect has achieved … Continue reading
free choice: and there was one not three?
Goethe was enchanted by Gottfried Arnold’s “The Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics,” writing, ” that every man in the end came to have his own religion, and now it seemed to me the most natural thing in … Continue reading
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Tagged Arianism, Arius Alexandrian cleric, Council of Nicaea, Doonsbury Arianism, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, John Wycliffe, Joseph Priestly, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Master of St. Gilles, Religious Heresy, religious heretics, Saint Remy painter, Servetus
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into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter
Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir
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lessing and nathan the wise guy
It says much about the Enlightenment spirit that the playwright Gotthold Lessing preferred to look upon himself as a critic. It says much about Lessing the critic that his greatest work of poetic criticism was entitled Laokoon. To Lessing, the … Continue reading
color and the language of second nature
The power of color. Is color more a presence than a sign, a force, ” the most sacred element of all visible things.” Is color primary and not secondary to form? Is color fundamentally involved in the making of culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Goethe, John Ruskin, John Verelst, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, Paul Kane, Philip Roth, Philip Whalen, Primo Levi, sidney nolan art, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs
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grey tones: before the law
…show an unmistakable love of death — a romance with death, indeed, a seduction by death, in which life seems beside the point. The vacuum of feeling. The vacuum of void, of loss, of death. Lifelessness. A broken will to … Continue reading
forever young: eternal trial
Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading
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Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats
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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant
Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt
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