Tag Archives: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

father son rivalries: meet the fockers way back when

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Dave

Tough love? A father-son rivalry that touched the most psychologically nerve. Oedipus in Berlin. The trouble with Frederick and his father came to a terrible climax in 1730 when the Prince was eighteen. Physically abused by his father and overwhelmingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Andrew Boyd, Antoine Pesne, Christopher Clark, Frederick the Great, Frederick William of Prussia, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marie Antoinette, Michel Munger, Thomas Carlyle, Voltaire | Leave a comment

DON’T BE SHY:STUFF YOUR GOBS

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Dave

There is no shortage of sexual objects from antiquity A few obvious examples spring to mind straight away: the erotic collection of frescoes, mosaics and statues from Pompeii is world-famous, while the Greeks too were masters at outlining explicit sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Archibald Alison, Aurelius, Catallus poem, Charlotte Higgins, Furius, Horace Walpole, Jean-Francois Champollion, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Jordan Wimmer, Judith Harris, Khajuraho Temple, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Mark Lowe, Mark Lowe Jordan Wimmer, Mary Beard, Nomos Capital, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Richard West, Robert Fulford, Stephen Bartlett, Thomas Gray | Leave a comment

FRIENDS, ROMANS & BARBARIANS:TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK ON CIVILIZATION

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Dave

Huns, Vandals, Goths; wild hordes of savages who broke down the gates of the civilized world? Or is their evil fame the result of a bad historical press? The prevailing soft multiculturalism of our times has made the phrase “the … Continue reading →

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LET HE WHO CASTS THE FIRST BRONZE

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Dave

The long history of bronze has had many dark ages spaced through it, and the lost sculptures overwhelmingly outnumber the survivals. Among them the bronze Colossus of Rhodes, a wonder of the world, stood a hundred and twenty feet high … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander the Great, Barisanus Sculpture, Bonnano sculptures, bronze sculpture, Celtic Tomb Vix Burgundy, Charlemagne, Church of San Antonio at Padua, Constantine The Great, Dark Ages, Dinanderie, Dinant on the Meuse, Donatello Gattamelata, Donatello Sculpture, Florentine Baptistry, Ghiberti Doors of paradise, Ghiberti Sculpture, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Master of Hildesheim sculpture, Michelangelo, Oderisius Sculptures, Pope paul III, Renier of Huy, Sargon Akkadian King, St. John Lateran, Tell Judeideh | 2 Comments

AS THE WORLD URNS

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Dave

The Barberini vase or Portland Vase as it became known as, is the most famous cameo-glass vessel from antiquity. it has been studied for centuries by scholars trying to determine its original utilitarian purpose and the perplexing meaning of its … Continue reading →