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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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A PIED PIETER OF THE LESS DROLL
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s picturizations of proverbs and parables, the Netherlandish peasant is employed only as a pantominist, but in the paintings of peasant life he comes into his own as Bruegel’s symbol of significant man. People who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles and Ray Eames, Italian Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mannerism, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Renaissance Art, The Bible
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GIOTTO & INEVITABLE ENIGMA
”But then my mind was struck by light that flashed and, with this light, received what it had asked. Here force failed my high fantasy; but my desire and will were moved already – like a wheel revolving uniformly – … Continue reading
GIOTTO & WANING CELESTIAL DREAMS
In the work of Giotto and Duccio, Western painting reached the climax of an ancient tradition and the radical beginnings of another that has continued to endure. Giotto became probably the most highest paid artist in Italy. He died rich … Continue reading
DANTE & DIVINE COMEDY of EXILE
”in every man … a demon lies hidden — the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain. (The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky)” Dante lived in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Botticelli, Carsten Svennson, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Delacroix, Dostoevsky, Henry Holiday, Howl, Italian Renaissance, Joseph Conrad, Michelino, Rennaisance, Salvador dali, The Divine Comedy, William Blake, William Carlos Williams
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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FROM CRAFTSMAN TO GENTLEMAN: AN ALLEGORICAL PREMISE
Albrecht Durer( 1471-1528 ) is usually called the greatest German artist, despite the importance accorded to Matthias Grunewald, whose more wild and fantastic fervor, even hallucinatory art, is more to the modern taste than Durer’s methodical exploration of the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Frey, Albrecht Durer, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, german art, Italian Renaissance, John Canaday, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Buber, Martin Luther, Matthias Grunewald, Renaissance Art, Wagner
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