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Charles I was Britain’s most discerning and energetic royal patron, buying much art and encouraging many continental artists. With his ascension to the throne in 1625, it was a turning point in English connoisseurship. Charles had grown up under the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony Van Dyck, Bernini, Charles I titian, Diego Velazquez, Earl of Arundel Charles I, Hans Holbein the Elder, Holbein Erasmus, Hugo van der Goes, Jan Van Dyck, King Charles I art collection, King Charles I England, Raphael Cartoons, Rembrandt Collection Charles I, Robert Campin, Rubens, Titian Girl in a fur wrap, Titian Venus of the Pardo
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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY
“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McMahon White, Aphrodite, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger, Bronzino, Claude Verlinde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Grote, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lucas Cranach, N.S. Gill, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli, Schliemann Troy, Shaft Graves Greece, Tracy Marks, Trojan War, Velasquez, Venus de Milo, Werner Keller the Bible as History, Woody Allen, Zeus and Ganymede, Zeus and Leda
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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading
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Tagged Eratosthenes, Frederick Leighton, George Grote, Gustave Moreau, Helen of Troy, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jacques-Louis David, Lucas Cranach, Michelangelo, Odysseus, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Publius Ovidius Naso, Richard Lattimore, Rubens, Thucydides, Virgil, Virgil Aenid, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats
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WHO SPIKED THE PUNCH
When discussing the fall of Rome, there is a desire to latch onto the shortest, the most accessible, and the most direct and dramatic answer to the question lurking in many minds: mind: what does it actually mean for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alboin, Alec Guinness, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Arianism, Bryan Ward Perkins, Charlemagne, Chomsky, Conversion of Clovis, David Frum, Dom Deluise, Dr. Peter Heather, Edward Gibbon, frumforum.com, John Belushi, Jordanes, Julius Nepos, Justinian, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks History of the World Part I, National Lampoon Animal House, Noam Chomsky, Orestes, Pepin the Short, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sam Bronston, Skull cups, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd
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UNPLEASANTLY SANE & MYSTICALLY MAD
“William Blake is an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement….the proor man fancies himself a great master, and has painted a few wretched pictures, some of which are intelligible allegory, others an attempt at sober character by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam and Eve, Edvard Munch, Emanuel Swedenborg, Frantz Fanon, Fuseli, G.K. Chesterton, Jacob Boehme, James Ensor, Joshua Reynolds, Karl Marx, Le Douanier Rousseau, Lord Byron, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Rubens, T.S. Eliot, Timothy Vines, W.B. Yeats, Walter Scott, William Blake, William Blake Nebuchadnezzar, William Wordsworth
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NOT A COURT JESTER
Even more extremely than most great painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder exists at two levels. At the popular one, his rollicking peasants are taken at face value and bought by the thousands in reproduction. A curious and delightful painter; obvious … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Ortelius, Albrecht Durer, Dutch painting, Frans Hogenberg, Goltzius, Jacob Wisse, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Plantin, Rubens
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CHRISTMAS: IT'S IN THE MIND'S EYE
Christmas. Undoubtedly the holiday with the greatest inclination to bring out the fruitcake in all of us. Is Christmas really any worse than other times of the year and do the Christmas blues really exist? Carl Jung differentiated himself from … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Beccafumi, Carl Jung, Chris Brooke, Daily Mail, Dave Thomson, Fellini, Frederico Fellini, Freud, Hieronymous Bosch, Jung, Kafka, Mark Chironna, Mark Twain, Michael Billig, New Statesman, Oliver James, Peter Paul Rubens, R.D. Laing, Rev. Tim Jones, Rubens, Samuel Clemens, Sigmund Freud, The Band, The Nutcracker Suite, The Nutcraker Ballet, Tim Burton, Tim Jones
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