Tag Archives: Thomas Cole

a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Dave

Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading →

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Fall of rome: when the world was young

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Dave

…The slaves, with their outlandish customs and religions; the orgiastic cults of Isis, Cybele , and the Syrian Demeter- in turn adulterated the political consensus of the republic’s most vigorous days, introducing the notion of an Oriental despotism, of the … Continue reading →