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saving bohemia from the yuppies
Its too late to save Bohemia.Perhaps a worthless book can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. At any rate it is upon this seeming paradox that it is worth dwelling on, in the effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Emile Jean Horace Vernet, Felix Nadar, Gustave Courbet, Gypsies in England, Gypsy Travellers, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Horace Vernet, Jules Janin, King of Bohemia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding t.v. show, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale, The Black Prince, William Shakespeare
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the golden bough: keeping the show on the road
Its the Antiques Roadshow up on Cripple Creek.The Golden Bough, the first king, sexless in suburbia and watch out for those in-laws.The comparison of today’s Royal family with Elizabeth I and James I are not that far-fetched as the current … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Henry Lord Darnley, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kate Middleton, Livinus de Vogelaare, Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Charles, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Paine
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knowing the dancer from the dance
In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats
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BLINDFOLD TEST FOR BEWITCHING IDEAS:CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH FUZZY WARBLES
Marketing and advertising wars are often drawn out, protracted affairs giving credence to the expression “War is hell;but who knew it looked like crap? It is entertaining when no one follows the modern version of the Marquess of Queensbury rules … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bothwell, Calvinism, Chastelard, Claude Nau, Clive Owen, D.O. Hunter Blair, David Rizzio, Douglas Wilson, EasyJet, Frenchman Chastelard, Glenda Jackson, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Henry Cowan, Henry Lord Darnley, Jamba Juice, james Hamilton, James Hepburn, John Erskine, John Knox, Jone Johnson Lewis, Lesley Smith, Lord Darnley, Martin Luther, Mary Queen of Scots, mary Stuart, Mary Tudor, Matt Perry, Protestant Reformation, Queen Elizabeth I, Reformation Scotland, Renaissance, Rizzio, Robert Mugabe, Ronsard French poet, Ronsard poet, Rosalind K. Marshal, Tom Hollander, Vanessa Redgrave, W.P. Frith
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THE HAREM, THE SULTAN, THE PAINTER, THE EUNICH & HIS LOVER
”The pressures of being prince aren’t easy in any royal family, and history is full of eccentric rulers, warped by a childhood spent under a golden thumb. But the stakes in the house of Osman were higher then in any … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged 3 Mustaphas 3, Alev Lytle Croutier, Charles Kimball, curious expeditions.com, Dimitri Cantemi, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jason Goodwin, Kosem sultan, Maypeyker Kosem, Murad III, Ottoman art, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire Art, Queen Elizabeth I, Sultan Ibrahim I, Sultan Selim the Grim, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Turkish History
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PORTRAIT OF REENACTMENT
The unknown lady below sat for this luminous portrait in the middle of the fifteenth century. Her cone shaped henin is fastened with a velvet loop beneath her chin and pushed back to reveal the high, plucked forehead so much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Chester Dale, Eugene Delacroix, History Portrait painting, Ingres, Ingres Monsieur Bertin, J.A.D. Ingres, John Singer Sargent, Michelangelo, Petrus Christus, Pietro Annigoni, Portrait painting, Queen Elizabeth I, Salvador dali, William Draper
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