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the opportunist
It was early evening. The sun had just set after the assassination of Pertinex. Rome was at dinner. In the imperial courtyard a body lay without a head. The head of the emperor was a few hundred yards outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodus Roman Emperor, Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Elagabalus Roman Emperor, Emperor Caligula, Jeffrey Bernard, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pertinax, Pertinax Emperor of Rome, Repentinus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian
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the kids are alright?
The spiritual in art. Is it important? Is innovation and form enough? Traditional images had outworn their time, but did it mean that a maturing spiritualsm had to be discarded as well? That an invisible, transformative energy had to be … Continue reading
we need the pillows : sleeping on “waning skepticism”
From the mouth of Harold Bloom. From his quill to god’s scribe. He represents the archetype of the Gnostic personality. If there is a gnostic personality disorder Bloom is a carrier, transmitter and is chronically infected. Or as he puts … Continue reading
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Tagged artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Charles Lamb, cima da conegliano, dan geddes, david rosenberg, Dirck Bouts, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, john collier, jonathan rosen, lawrence Alma-Tadema, pauline pistis, Sam Harris, Wallace Stevens, William Blake
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moses: the comic within the cosmic
Theologians as well as philosophers, have long analyzed Truth and Goodness. Theology though, unlike philosophy, has neglected serious scrutiny of the study of Beauty and Aesthetics, and has grappled, disconcertingly, with humor. The biblical figure of Moses cuts across the … Continue reading
dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul
So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading
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Tagged alain danielou, Charles Baudelaire, chuck berry, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louise Bourgeois, Lovis Corinth, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, nick tosches, robert christgau, Robert Mapplethorpe, robert palmer
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free fall: pax americana?
The idea of decadence is hardly novel, in fact it has been carry on luggage since expulsion from the Garden. But what exactly constitutes decadence, and whether we are, in our time suffering its effects is not so easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alex de Toqueville, Anthony Trollope, Averil Cameron, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Tiberius, Frederico Fellini, Ilya Somin, J.C. Rolfe, Jonah Goldberg, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spartacus t.v. series, Tom Ridge
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WHO SPIKED THE PUNCH
When discussing the fall of Rome, there is a desire to latch onto the shortest, the most accessible, and the most direct and dramatic answer to the question lurking in many minds: mind: what does it actually mean for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alboin, Alec Guinness, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Arianism, Bryan Ward Perkins, Charlemagne, Chomsky, Conversion of Clovis, David Frum, Dom Deluise, Dr. Peter Heather, Edward Gibbon, frumforum.com, John Belushi, Jordanes, Julius Nepos, Justinian, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks History of the World Part I, National Lampoon Animal House, Noam Chomsky, Orestes, Pepin the Short, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sam Bronston, Skull cups, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd
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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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