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copernicus: and the earth went mobile
The Copernican Revolution. Displacing man and the earth from the center of the universe… …The second important aspect of Copernicus’s work in which he differed from his predecessors is that, far from offering a hint or a suggestion or a … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Osiander, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Martin Luther Table Talk, Nicholas Copernicus, Ptolemy, Tintoretto
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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STRANGE MANNERISMS
The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Bronzini, El Greco, Emperor Rudolf II, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Johannes Kepler, Mannerism painting, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Montaigne, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Tintoretto
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