Tag Archives: Julius Ceasar

PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Dave

“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading →

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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dave

It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →

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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Dave

“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading →

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AUGUSTUS WAS NOT AMUSED

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Dave

” I was born for poetry. Whatever I tried to say came out as verse”. Ovid was a gifted observer of ”la dolce vita” that delighted the beautiful people of Augustan Rome with his how-to verses on love making. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →