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venus rising: and no boyfriend in sight
She was the perfect beauty. Beloved of prince and painter, Simonetta Vespucci was the Renaissance ideal. … The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again in the art of Sandro Botticelli, Early Italian Renaissance painter. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Claudio Angelini, David Bellingham, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Ghirlandaio, Guiliano de' Medici, Lorenzo Medici, Marco de Marinis, Michelangelo, Piero di Cosimo, Sharon Fermor, Simonetta Vespucci, Vasari, Venus and Aphrodite
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WHEN GOODNESS COMES TO A STICKY END
Machiavelli: the name leaves no one indifferent. Perhaps one of the most hated men in history among a gallery of rogues. He has been charged, down through the centuries with being the sole poisonous source of political monkey business, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Florence Renaissance, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Graham Greene, Guiliano de' Medici, Howard Zinn, James Bond, John Keats, Keifus, King Charles VIII, Lorenzo Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli, Machiavelli Life of Castruccio Castracani, Machiavelli Mandragola, Machiavelli The Prince, Michelangelo, Phil Regal, Pietro de Medici, Plato, Pope Leo, Raphael, Santo di Tito, Savonarola
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SOULS WITH MALEDICTIONS
”‘Moloch’ certainly, despite the horror it holds for Ginsberg, is after all only the comfortably unreal reality of bourgeois America. It is as much ‘invisible suburbs’ as it is ‘monstrous bombs’, and even the poet admits that it ‘entered my … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Taylor, Allen Ginsberg, Ary Scheffer, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Carl Solomon, Dante Alighieri, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Ginevra de Benci, Giotto di Bordone, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Leonardo DaVinci, Lorenzo Medici, Savonarola, Warren Ginsberg, William Adolphe Bourguereau
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BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
” If you’re going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”. The same could be said for Florence,which, in the fifteenth century was a permissive, liberal society. The pendulum of the permissive revolution swung the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Burning of the Vanities, Florentine Italy, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, G.K. Chesterton, Italian Renaissance, Lorenzo Medici, Medici, Michelangelo, Piero Medici, Renaissance Art, Savonarola
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