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seminal warfare: kimo therapy
A plastic Kim just for bobble butt you…That incredible feeling of power of the lie and letting others believe you possess… “The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than “that which appears … Continue reading
GARDEN OF EARTHLY FRIGHTS: Mannerist Playground
Despite a lack of evidence, one local tale was that Vicino Orsini was a hunchback who created a garden of monsters in order to persuade his wife, Julia Farnese, that deformity held its own mysterious principles of delight. …Over four … Continue reading
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Tagged Bomarzo Garden, Christopher McIntosh, Colin Wilson, Horst Bredekamp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Droucet, Jessie Sheeler, Mannerist Art, Mark Edward Smith, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Salvador dali, Vicino Orsini
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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY
“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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Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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A PIED PIETER OF THE LESS DROLL
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s picturizations of proverbs and parables, the Netherlandish peasant is employed only as a pantominist, but in the paintings of peasant life he comes into his own as Bruegel’s symbol of significant man. People who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles and Ray Eames, Italian Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mannerism, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Renaissance Art, The Bible
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HEAVEN AS A TENSE & DISQUIETING PLACE
The central incident in El Greco’s painting, ”The Burial of Count Orgaz” is a vulgar and morally pointless miracle. The painting was done to remind a reluctant parish of its feudal duty. Most of the proceedings preceding and surrounding the … Continue reading
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Tagged Count Orgaz, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, High renaissance, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Neo-Platonism, Neo-Platonists, The Burial of Count Orgaz
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STRANGE MANNERISMS
The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Bronzini, El Greco, Emperor Rudolf II, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Johannes Kepler, Mannerism painting, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Montaigne, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Tintoretto
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BAD MANNERS
Something very strange happened in the world of the visual arts during the sixteenth century. Its opening years were the golden age of the Italian High Renaissance and the arts seemed to have attained a perfection. Da Vinci, Raphael and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brueghel, El Greco, Giulio Romano's, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Jacques Bousquet, Kenneth Clark, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mannerist Art, Martin Luther, Parmigianino, Pontormo, Raphael, Renaissance Art, Rosso Fiorentino
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