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man in the middle
If the Middle Ages was the age of faith, it gave way to what can be described as an age of curiosity. The Renaissance. Facts that things existed no longer was an assurance that it had a place in an … Continue reading
stigmata of contradiction
Putting the world in order in just the opposite way. That is, instead of simplifying, the material the world offers to that artist, the opposite effect occurs and we have a multiplication of detail. That is the case of Van … Continue reading
soul people: complex essence for the perplexed
If we go back to the Middle Ages, we enter a realm when reason was put into service of the miraculous, and science, as such, was half fantasy. There was little theorizing. Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell was painted in specific, minute … Continue reading
memling: pious little pictures
The painting of A Lady with a Pink hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The pink, a flower that can symbolize betrothal, was the creation of Hans Memling whose realistic, but highly refined portraits mirrored fifteenth century Flemish society. Hans … Continue reading
from strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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illuminations
Illuminations. The fifteenth-century illuminate manuscript as art form. It was an art, as Poussin said, that appealed to the pleasures of intelligence; pleasures which are above all others. As opposed to frivolous art for amusement. Philippe de Mazerolles – … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Duke Charles the Bold, Girart de Roussillon, illuminated manuscripts, Jan van Eyck, Jean le Tavernier, Lievin van Lathem, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Loyset Liedet, Loyset Lyedet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Medieval Illuminated manuscripts, Philippe de Mazerolles, Roger von der Weyden, Rogier van der Weyden, Simon Marmion, The Book of Hours, Willem Vrelant
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chilling in the city of the sun
People have always tried to imagine the world as it might become, dissatisfied as we are, with the world as it exists. … For a century after Thomas More there was no sign of significant new utopias. Then within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Francis Bacon New Atlantis, Heinrich Schickhardt, J.V. Andreae, J.V. Andreae Christianopolis, Jan van Eyck, Johann Valentin Andreae, John Heydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Mignard painting, Sir Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Will Durant
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