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Tag Archives: Peter Paul Rubens
inflation: just sequester it
…The worst possible consequence of inflation has always been its corrosion of political institutions. Every monarchy in the sixteenth century except the English went bankrupt. War, grandiose ambitions, and civil and religious strife played their part, and acquired extra force … Continue reading
bruegel: sober philosophy
In a more extreme sense than most great painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder exists at two levels. At the popular one, his fantastic drolleries and his pictures of rollicking peasants are taken at face value and bought as popular commodity … 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
young darwin: denial of the fittest
…Darwin himself was a lover of nature, a collector and sportsman, before he was a man of science. He grew up with the tastes of an English provincial gentleman at a time whn hunting, shooting, and the breeding of horses … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, J. B. Lamarck, J.S. Henslow, Madame Pickwick, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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purgatory joan : rehab for the maid in heaven
Joan of Arc had a string of minor successes culminating in a marvelous victory at Patay, where the French allegedly lost three men to 3,000 for the English. This seemingly miraculous event, as well as the liberation of Orleans, was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Joan of Arc The Maid, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Perceval de Cagny, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, The Hundred Years War, The Vigils of Charles VII, Trial of Joan of Arc
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poor “cohort”
“Cohort” means a body of soldiers: a battalion or a regiment, something like that. A pure Latin word, it has been in English for hundreds of years. In Milton’s Paradise Lost God sends the archangel Michael down to expel Adam … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Byron poetry, Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger The Glass Family, Legs Diamond, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Paradise Lost, Peter Paul Rubens, Reubens paintings, Salinger Raise High The Roof Beam Carpenters
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houses of the holies: global idol
Idol worship; its always been the bane of monotheism and the source of a persistent if seemingly losing conflict. The issue always arises, or placed at the cross-hairs, particularly this year with the movement for a moment of silence for … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Berlin Olympics 1936, Israel Olympic Committee, Josephus the Jewish War, Leni Riefenstahl, London Olympic Mascots, London Olympics 2012, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Peter Paul Rubens, Pole dancing, Pole dancing olympics sport, Robert Boyle author, Tim Trautman
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heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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stubborn affiliations
The nude’s stubborn affiliation with tradition can create embarrassing situations at a time when art is stubbornly anti-traditional. Of course, some of it depends on what you mean by tradition. Until modern art kicked tradition in the jewels, you could … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, boris lurie, Francois Boucher, Giacomo Casanova, Hassan Musa, Hassan Musa art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Peter Paul Rubens, tom wesselmann
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