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bruegel: discarding the idealized for commonplace
It can be said that Bosch and Bruegel are not much alike in effect. Bosch’s greatest work is calculated to give rise to shivers of spiritual terror linked to sexual excitement as the primal reflex among men. Bruegel’s horror of … Continue reading
bruegel: keeping identity with nature
For Pieter Bruegel the Elder, man is faulty, he is potentially noble, and that his existence is legitimized by his position as an integral but not central unit of the cosmos- although not within such arbitrarily neat compartments. Rejecting the … Continue reading
re-cycle the past
In earlier times pagan temples were converted into Christian churches, mausoleums made to serve as fortresses, sarcophagi put to use as bathtubs: by such thrifty and practical expedients untold treasures from classical antiquity have been preserved from ruin and destruction… … Continue reading
benevolent nature: and then came darwin
…The world was not only imaginatively comprehensible, it was benevolently ordered. It is true that, ever since Copernicus and Galileo, the earth could no longer be regarded as the center of the universe; the music of the spheres was stilled. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, David Klinghoffer, david teniers the younger, Frans Snyders, H.P. Blavatsky, J. B. Lamarck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Peter Singer Darwinian Left, Richard Dawkins, Wesley Smith author
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trump these for size
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England. By 1750 the Western world had captured a vast commerce unequaled in human history. The riches derived from it, enabled men of property, the merchant class, to live in a sophisticated luxury previously enjoyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, David Chipperfield RA, English Tudor houses Hardwick Hall, English Tudor Houses Longleat, Filippo Brunelleschi, Jan Siberechts Dutch Artist, Lord Hervey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Palladio, Palladio architecture, William Hogarth
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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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Bernini : once more with oomph and feeling
Bernini. Counter Reformation overstatement…A pitiless unromantic view of death was another Counter Reformation theme. Bernini went to the macabre iconography of the Middle Ages and borrowed the death’s head for his tombs. The skeletons holding an hourglass in the tomb … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini Counter Reformation, Bernini sculpture Rome, Charles de Brosses, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Janson History of Art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Merritt Janson, Michelangelo, Pope Alexander VII
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Bernini and one side of the moat
Bernini. Are the roots of heaven made of stone? The vision of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini… Bernini appeared just at the moment when the papacy was going through its most intensive phase of art patronage. To commission great works and support … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Bernini sculpture Rome, Caravaggio, Catholic Counter Reformation, Council of Trent, Daniele da Volterra, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Sistine Chapel, Pedro de Foix Montoya, Pope Innocent X, Pope Innocent XI
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