Tag Archives: Henry Adams

platonic painter and patron

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Dave

Isabella Stewart Gardner. A dashing individualist, with the showmanship of Ziegfeld and the temper of Toscanini, she took Boston by storm. A passion for old master art, young men and music all seemed to come together in one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bernard Berenson, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Palffy, Fenway Court Gardner Museum, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum Gothic Room, Henry Adams, Henry E. Huntington, Henry James, isabella stewart gardner, James J. Rorimer, John Singer Sargent, Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride, Madame Gautreau madame X, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, raphael paintings | Leave a comment

window to another world

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Dave

James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum and a former director of its medival branch, The Cloisters, said that Isabella Stewart Gardner was the first person in the United States to incorporate specimens of Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque and … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Abbey of St. Denis, Gardner Museum Chapel stained glass, George Grey Bernard, Henry Adams, Henry Adams Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, James J. Rorimer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Soissons cathedral, The Cloisters Museum | Leave a comment

occupy the authentic

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Dave

Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

WRETCHED DESIRES: “WEEP FOR THE SAVIOR NOT THE SEDUCER”

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Dave

Peter Abelard. An impudent nuisance to his contemporaries, a romantic figment later, and perhaps our first free man. “By doubting, we come to inquire and by inquiry we arrive at truth”. The church has never quite understood Abelard to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Abelard, Abelard and Héloise, Angelica kauffman, Angelica Kauffmann, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Bernard of Clairvaux, Calvinism, D'Agesci Bernard, Diana Rigg, Héloise, Henry Adams, James Burge, James E. Kiefer, Jay Atkinson, John Mason Neale, Paul Kavanagh, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abélard, Plato, Ross Fiddes, Thomas Aquinas, Tristan, Wagner Tristan, William of Champeaux | Leave a comment

DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Dave

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alec Guiness, Ara Coeli Church Rome, Arch of Titus, Ceasar Borgia, Church of Aracoeli, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Edward Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire 1964, Fall of the Roman Empire Movie, Henry Adams, History of Rome, Julius Ceasar, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Mussolini, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Leo X, Saint Augustine, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Temple Menorah | Leave a comment

EMPIRE BURLESQUE:ANATOMY NOT GEOGRAPHY

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Dave

For centuries the principal ingredients in the popular Western image of the Middle East have been spirituality and sex. As early as the sixteenth century, European writers were using the second half of this irresistible combination to describe and define … Continue reading →