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Tag Archives: Jean Leon Gerome
historic surprises
Unless we grasp that the historical process can always take men and their societies by surprise, we shall fail to understand our own immediate dangers, or indeed, our opportunities. Tides can suddenly break old barriers in a matter of hours … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Carlyn Beccia, Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Diego Velasquez, Granville Sharp, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slave Market Liverpool, Slave Trade eighteenth century, Slave Trade nineteenth century
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a plateful it is
The level of profoundness and incisiveness, let alone plain vanilla veracity is about at the same level as elementary school Scholastic Book Services paperbacks. Banal, slightly generic, and with lots of pablum serving drivel and spittle. Its the New York … Continue reading
the blobs
Characterizing the idea of “otherness” is the ultimate divide and conquer, and in the case of the Arabs a metaphor for the word “backwards” homogenously spread over a large swathe of the globe and a sub-category for Islam in general. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged craig thompson habibi, Dr. jack Shaheen, Edward Said, Harrison Ford Raiders of the Lost Ark, Israel Shahak, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, Maimonides, MEK People's Holy Jihadis, michelle bachmann, Muslim Brotherhood, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Steven Spielberg, Thorstein Veblen
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how much is that slave in the window?
As a commodity, slaves created peculiar problems for the merchant. Apparently in the larger cities there were a few shops where slaves could be bought: in Rome in Nero’s time they were concentrated near the temple of Castor in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capua slave market, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Leon Gerome, Josephus Flavius, Lionel Casson, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman slave markets, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Ancient Rome
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deathbed manumissions
It is a particular institution of the Old World: slavery. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it- for war, for luxury, and for business. But even they knew it to be evil… Bills of sale were usually written … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus Roman emperor, Edward Gibbon, Gustave Boulanger, Horace Roman poet, Jean Leon Gerome, Kevin Bales, Kevin Bales Free the Slaves, Robert C. Davis, Slave trade history, Slave Trading Roman Empire, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire
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suspicious minds
Good to walk around with a mirror just to see who may be sneaking up on you. Hard to find a Sultan who wasn’t suspicious and didn’t keep a food tester on the payroll. And lets not talk about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aya Sofia mosque, Conquest of Constantinople, Fabbi Fabbio, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Hagia Sophia church, Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Claude Flachat, john frederick lewis, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottaviano Bon, Selim III sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Valide Sultans
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peeping thomas and the organ grinding sultan
The comings and goings in the Grand Seraglio would make a Dostoevsky novel look like a child’s short story. No, call this Persian Goth mixed with a surreal world that was so over the top so as to seem like … Continue reading
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Tagged Gentile Bellini, Jean Claude Flechet, Jean Leon Gerome, John Mole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, Queen Elizabeth Ottoman Empire, Thomas Dallam, William Harborne
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