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Tag Archives: Horace Vernet
saving bohemia from the yuppies
Its too late to save Bohemia.Perhaps a worthless book can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. At any rate it is upon this seeming paradox that it is worth dwelling on, in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, Felix Nadar, Gustave Courbet, Gypsies in England, Gypsy Travellers, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Horace Vernet, Jules Janin, King of Bohemia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding t.v. show, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, The Black Prince, William Shakespeare
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luther: black market of indulgences
Last summer 800 three foot high statuettes of sixteenth-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther popped up in the town square of Wittenberg in Eastern Germany. The red, green, blue and black figurines are the work of artist Ottmar Hoerl and were … Continue reading
small is beautiful: a free man in paris
It was a time when Paris was a city for the young. Students, painters, intellectuals, journalists, grisettes: all were there along with a young German poet who recorded a period of creative ferment between one revolution and the next. …. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Amalia Keller, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Gérard de Nerval, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vernet, Niall Ferguson, Paris July Revolution 1831, salomon heine, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, victor-jean nicolle, wolfgang menzel
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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