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fifty score years ago, our forebears…
Are we entering a new Dark Age? Is one at hand? We might well to look back to the last Dark Age, which beclouded Europe from the fall of Rome to the beginning of the brilliant Middle Age in, more … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bayeaux Tapestry, Edward Gibbon, Frank Thadeusz, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Jacques le Goff, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Lynn White, Raoul Glaber chronicler, The Dark Ages, The Middle Ages
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1000 years whence
One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… …Science as we know it, did not exist. The idea of experiment and discovery did … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abbot Notker Balbulus, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Bishop Adalberon of Reims, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Harley Psalter, Hatto I Archbishop of Mainz, Hucbald monk of St.-Amand, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madrid Skylitzes, Raoul Glaber chronicler, Saint Gall Switzerland, The Dark Ages, Utrech Psalter
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cluny and the gall chatter
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Look at two of the monasteries. First, Saint Gall in Switzerland, founded in the seventh century, and the home of a long line of learned and virtuous men. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abbot of Cluny, Abbot of Cluny Magilo, Book of Maccabees I, Edward Gibbon, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Opus Dei, Pope Gregory VII, Saint Gall monastery, Saint Gall Switzerland, St. Odo Cluny, The Dark Ages, The utrecht Psalter
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dark shadows & high walls
A sanctuary for a dark age. When there was little law in the land, and robbers and brigands were at liberty in the wild, a man’s home was his castle… Taking in to account the enormous diffusion of castles in … Continue reading
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Tagged Baccio Baldini, Chanson de Roland, Daniel Specklin, Jean Froissart Chronicles, King Arthur magical Round Table, King Arthur's Knights, Limbourg Brothers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther encounter with Devil, Sir John Soane Museum, Song of Roland, Wartburg in Thuringia
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are we playing in the same brand?
Watercolor paper is still apparently made much the way it has been since Duke of Berry let the ladies of the palace engage in the visual arts. That is, since Medieval times. Its mulched, pressed and literally hung out to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Arches Canson, Arches watercolor paper, Duc de Berry, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, napoleon the description of egypt, turner watercolors, Voltaire, voltaire complete works
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how grows your garden: vegetable patch kids
Andre Le Notre laid out many noble gardensĀ which soon became world famous. Versailles in particular was envied by every prince in Europe. And in the century and more that followed, these royal gardens were copied all over the civilized … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Le Notre, Capability Brown, Chateau versailles gardens, edward white garden, english landscape gardens, francis bacon on gardens, francois boucher paintings, Lancelot Brown, Les tres riches heures du duc de berry, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, renaissance gardens, reverend william hanbury, sir jeremiah colman, Tres Riches Heures
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have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b
Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake
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the black plague: groaning in sympathy
The Black Death came out of Central Asia killing one third of the European population. And among the survivors a new skepticism arose about life and God and human authority. Most fourteenth-century people regarded their doctor with tolerance and respect … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Duc de Berry, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein, Holbein, Jean Duc de Berry, Josse Lieferinxe, Limbourg Brothers, Skip Knox, Tres Riches Heures, William Langer
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