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Tag Archives: Saint Thomas Aquinas
“give me life”
Living for what is livelier in the flesh. Saint Thomas Aquinas’s law of the Church: suppress all sensual feelings by force of reason. It is the antithesis of comedy which is the triumph of la forza di natura, the force … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce The Devoted Widow, Boccaccio Decameron, Fellini Satyricon, Gaius Petronius, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean de la Fontaine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petronius Satyricon, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Widow of Ephesus
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nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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MANTEGNA: ANCIENT RITES MEET CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES …
… or agonies in the Garden.He antagonized conventional orthodox theology. Mantegna was one of the most important historical thinkers of his time. He brought to his understanding of painting as historical narrative, a new sense of the past, like that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, David Landau, E.H. Gombrich, Giorgio Vasari, John Michael Greer, John Ruskin, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Dummet, Michael Kimmelman, Peter Burke, Rafael T. Prinke, Robert Hughes, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Suzanne Boorsch, Thomas Aquinas, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY: AND A MAGI IN A PEAR TREE
Hans Memling’s ”The Seven Joys of Mary” is a pageant as much as a painting, a dramatization of holy events in a landscape that might accommodate the revelry of a midsummer eve. Exactly what is going on is hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Tani, Cathedral of Lubeck, Chales The Bold, Chapel of the Tanners, Cyndi Lauper, Flemish painting, Hans Memling, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Paul Jeromack, Peter Bultinc, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Vincent de Paul
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BEWITCHED OF REASON
Vampires of the Vanities, and bonfires of insanity. It was not the medieval world that produced the witchcraft delusion. Surprisingly, it was the age of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The dark ages were perhaps not all that dark after … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, Girolamo Cardono, H.C. Lea, H.C. Lea History of the Inquisition, Ingmar Bergman, Saint Boniface, Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Seventh Seal, The Witches of Eastwick, witchcraft, witches
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