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Tag Archives: Jacques-Louis David
smarter than he looks
“failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite” – N. Scherman
Mistletoe for Marat
“C’est en faisant un peu les choses qu’on arrive à ne rien faire du tout.” Jean Cocteau
marat: santa’s advance scout
Charlotte Corday and Marat Sade as Christmas decorations. Peace and Goodwill to All but only after some necessary business is taken care of. Even those crazy Jacobins had gift giving on their mind. A painting as political cinema noir or … Continue reading
audubon: illusions of spontaneity
Returning to the original paintings of John James Audubon and not the proliferation of cheap prints, brings us directly back to his highly personal method and approach- and to the most intimate aspects of his artistic labors. On several occasions … Continue reading
dead to the world: first photographic lie
The man who took the photograph below, the man who wrote the original inscription printed below it, and the “corpse” itself were one and the same: Hippolyte Bayard, as the yet unrecognized inventor of photography in France. At the time … Continue reading
slave: barbarians and barter for the buck
Slavery. A peculiar institution of the Old World. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it; that is, condoned it for war, condoned it for luxury and condoned it for business. But even then, they knew it to be … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ancient Roman slave trade, ancient slave revolts, Capua gladiator school, Cicero, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Jacques-Louis David, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Marcus Aurelius column Rome, Roman Retiarus gladiator, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire, Sparatacus slave revolt, Spartacus
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hazards of the classics
Even though holocausts, hatreds, and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of past cultures, occasional good luck, later circumspection, and modern recovery have helped rescue a priceless part of our written legacy from oblivion. An eloquent instance of the chances and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Apeleius Golden Ass, Armadillo Systems, Bishop Eadfrith, British Library, Cupid and Psyche, Didymus Alexandrinus, Didymus Alexandrinus De Spiritu Sancto, Dr Michelle Brown, Jacques-Louis David, Jean de la Fontaine, Jean-Baptiste Lully, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Kish Tablet, Lindisfarne Gospels, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moliere Psyche, Pierpont Morgan Library
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school’s out: very blue notes
Its always been acknowledged that there are intrinsic qualities to the study of music. But to go to school and make a career of it has always been a questionable decision. The precarity of employment juxtaposed with the liberty of … Continue reading
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