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BLONDE AMBITION & SEDITION: THE WHITE VEIL
The woman’s legs seemed to go on forever. It was hard to tell exactly whom they belonged to, or what she was thinking, but their purpose was clear, dominating a billboard for a new condo…. drawing the eyes of admirers … Continue reading
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A PARADOX OF CONTRADICTIONS: HERMAPHRODITE WITH A CROWN
She was a woman who wished she was a man; a queen who aspired to be a scholar; a Protestant who turned to Rome; a monarch who loved power but gave up her crown. Such were the paradoxes of Queen … Continue reading
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Tagged Greta Garbo, Jacob Elbfas, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, John Gilbert, Pope Alexander VII, Queen Christina film, Queen Christina Hermaphrodite, Queen Christina of Sweden, Raphael, Sebastien Boudron, Titian
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INTO THE MYSTIC: FOLLOWING A MYSTERIOUS & FUGITIVE LIGHT
Time has told me You’re a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. And time has told me Not to ask for more Someday our ocean Will find its shore. So I`ll leave the ways that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Charles Holme, Claude Lorrain, Dan Bischoff, English Painting, James Lenox, John Constable, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Linda Hayward, Linda Haywood, Michelangelo, Nick Drake, Nick Drake Five Leaves Left, Raphael, Romanticism, Simon Schama, Walter Ramsden Fawkes, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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WHEN IN ROME
Rome, as the freshly abdicated ex-queen Christina saw it on her arrival, was a city in the process of being transformed by the genius of Bernini. Everywhere, churches and palaces were being rebuilt, and handsome piazzas laid out, in all … Continue reading
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WHEN GOODNESS COMES TO A STICKY END
Machiavelli: the name leaves no one indifferent. Perhaps one of the most hated men in history among a gallery of rogues. He has been charged, down through the centuries with being the sole poisonous source of political monkey business, of … Continue reading
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''THIS PASSION WHICH IS LIKE A DISEASE''
About collecting he once told a Soviet negotiator, ”You… are a fortunate man not to have this passion which is like a disease.” He was one of the most mysterious men of his era. He was obsessed with privacy and … Continue reading
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Tagged Calouste Gulbenkian, Dirck Bouts, Dirck Bouts Dutch-Flemish master, Girolama Genga, Gulbenkian Foundation, Hagop Pasha, Hermitage Museum Leningrad, Holbein Dance of Death, Jean Antoine Houdon, National Gallery of Art Washington, Raphael, Rembrandt
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CARE & FEEDING OF CHAOS MONSTERS
There is a picnic at Armageddon.If you go, wear flowers in your hair. Along with Antichrist, Gog and Magog passed into the world view of medieval Christendom. And they also emerged, more and more clearly, as a new version of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alexander the Great, Antichrist, Armageddon, Book of Revelation, Czar Alexander I, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Gog and Magog, Heinrich Jung-Stilling, martin schongauer, Pat Robertson, Raphael, Saint George, The Sixth Seal, Vincent Ferrer
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LEGENDS ON THE WILD SIDE
Of all creatures on earth, the rhinoceros appears at first glance the least likely to be associated with the art of love. The great horn that decorates his nose, and from which his name is derived, is not generally considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Ross, Albrecht Durer, Dali Rhinoceros Horn, Ingres, Josh Sonnier, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marco Polo, Odell Shepard, Paul Cezanne, Raphael, Rhinoceros, Richard de Fournival, Salvador dali, Salvador Dali Vermeer, The Unicorn Tapestries, Theo Jansen, Velasquez, Vermeer the Lacemaker, Vermerr Dali Rhinoceros
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MIRROR MIRROR ON THE EASEL
who is the fairest painter since Medieval?.” I’m maybe not as good as Raphael”, he once conceded, ”but there is more tension in my canvases”. One of the greatest admirers of his own haunting portraits was the eccentric Russian called … Continue reading
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