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Tag Archives: Pinturicchio paintings
1000 years ago: deep in the archives
A thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “dark age.” They themselves did not think it was dark and they were only half wrong… …Our Western world was unquestionably Catholic, although the Church sanctified relics of pagan practice and … Continue reading
peacocks and goat: hair story
The smart money is always going to be on skimpy clothing and long hair, each generation seeking to reinvent itself; to excite and infuriate for the same reason. And each generation of mothers and fathers, if they reviewed their history, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea del Verrocchio, Atalanta Baglioni, Bernardino di Betto, Book of Tobit, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oddi and Baglioni, Pinturicchio, Pinturicchio paintings, Pope Paul V, raphael paintings, Raphael The Deposition, Rennaisance Perugia, Tiberio Alfani, Treaty of Tolentino
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on the block
Fiesty monks. Fighting monks and battling friars. Jerusalem had been lost for good in 1244 and in 1291, Acre, the chief remaining fortress of the Crusaders and their last seat of government, fell to the enemy after a siege of … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Death, foulques de villaret, Froissart Chronicles, gustave wappers, John Langstrother, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pinturicchio paintings, Poll Tax England, Robert Hales, Robert Hales beheaded, War of the Roses, Wat Tyler Uprising
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