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palladio: not fitting the formulas
Andrea Palladio was no Palladian. The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master,s own works fir few of the formulas… …And here for the first time in the history of mankind, was an architecture that had … Continue reading
palladio: values of humanism
Palladio was not much of a Palladian. The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… Palladian architecture is one thing; Palladio’s own architecture, however, is quite another. There is … Continue reading
palladio: when it was glib
The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fir few of the formulas… …But eighteenth-century England, unlike France, extolled grandeur at the expense of comfort. One of the reasons why the British feel so … Continue reading
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
the great estates: country life
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… …The great age of building came to France in the sixteenth century, the time when many of the fabulous chateaux of the Loire were built, creating a tradition of palatial architecture which, modified and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cholmondeley Family, Christopher Wren, England Hanoverian kings, Georgian England, Horace Walpole, Houghton Hall England, Inigo Jones, John Wootton painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, the Four Georges, William Hogarth
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royal flush: dallying while bidding for waity katy
Who will be the lamb and who will be the knife? Prince William, when and if he becomes king, will be the first Stuart king since James I, son of Mary Queen of Scots, in over 400 years. Secret potions, … Continue reading
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Tagged adam lusher, Ben Jonson, clinton a. ortiz, clyde lewis, esme stuart, frances howard, George Villiers, Inigo Jones, James I of England, john draper, Kate Middleton, leslie keylock, Mary Queen of Scots, Peter Paul Rubens, renold elstrack, richard hoagland, Robert Anton Wilson, robert carr, robert devereaux, stephen t. ardent, tracy twyman, william larkin
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king for a day: take a pass on the cake
All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge
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THE DODGY MASTER: PSST… ITS EROTIC ABSOLUTISM
“Besides foreshadowing Warhol, Rubens amounted to the Walt Disney of his day—a hardworking industrialist of standardized pleasures. He not only ran his studio as a virtual assembly line; he oversaw the mass production of prints, based on his paintings, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambroglio di Spinola, Andy Warhol, Archduchess Isabella, Benvenuto Cellini, Bologna, Caravaggio, Counter Reformation, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Flemish painting, Giovanni da Bologna, Helena Fourment Rubens, Inigo Jones, Justus Lipsius, Macchiavelli, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude, Olivares, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Seneca, Simon Schama, Walt Disney
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GOTHIC D.I.Y & FORGETTING TO DIE
You can build it. We can help. Lets build something together.So the slogans go. The eighteenth-century quest for the shudders went well beyond the craving for ”horrid” novels and took the form of horrid architecture that seemed to be permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Amanda Vickery, Batty Langley, Charles Over, Christopher Wren, Desmond Williams, Dr. Johnson, Helen Keller, Horace Walpole, Horton Folly Tower, Humphrey Sturt, Inigo Jones, James Bond, Jonathan Glancey, Madeline Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts, Shusaku Arakawa
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
They are big stones. Enormous sculptures and visual art. Often, as in the case of the giant menhirs at Kernario in Brittany they stand like sentinels as part of a vast megalithic complex. It has been assumed that our civilization … Continue reading
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Tagged Anakim, Archaeology, Boyd Rice, Christian Thomsen, Conrad Engelhardt, Danish Museum of Antiquities, David and Goliath, Dolmen Kilclooney Ireland, Guercino, Guercino Et in Arcadia Ego, Gustave Dore, Inigo Jones, James I of England, Jens Worsaae, L.C. Geerts, La Roche aux Fees Brittany, Menhirs at Carnac, Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, Nephilim, Pyramids of Egypt, Robert Connolly, Stonehenge, The Bible, The Children of the Anakins, Triton Merman, Ulysses, Walter Charleton, William Stukeley
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