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every picture tells a golden story
It can be said that the backbone of the Royal collection began with Henry VIII, though the anti-papal sentiments tended to associate art patronage with the Vatican and therefore the early works of the royals tended to anti-pope allegories mixed … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardinal Wolsey, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Elder, Jane Seymour, Johan Zoffany, King Francois France, King Henry VIII, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Memling, Queen Catalina, Tudor art collection, William Powell Frith
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royal terribilita
The queen of England, Elizabeth II may have the greatest private art collection in the world. It’s a collection that reflects the taste of English monarchs through the centuries.But in the beginning, it could be called humble origins, even for … Continue reading
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Tagged Act of Supremacy 1534, Edward VI, Girolamo da Treviso, Hans Holbein, Hans Holbein the Elder, Henry VIII art collection, Investiture Controversy, Jane Seymour, King Henry IV, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Tudor, Pope Gregory VII, pope Julius II, Pope paul III, Remiqius van Leemput, Roy Strong, Simon Thurley, The Duke of Urbino, Titian portrait of Philip II
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utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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seventh seal : sitting out the last dance
A dog-tired knight on his return journey from the Crusades travels through a country plagued by the plague where he meets, in a literal sense, death himself. Not death warmed over, but death. Unambiguous death in black and white. The … Continue reading
the black plague: groaning in sympathy
The Black Death came out of Central Asia killing one third of the European population. And among the survivors a new skepticism arose about life and God and human authority. Most fourteenth-century people regarded their doctor with tolerance and respect … Continue reading
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Tagged Duc de Berry, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein, Holbein, Jean Duc de Berry, Josse Lieferinxe, Limbourg Brothers, Skip Knox, Tres Riches Heures, William Langer
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“bring out your dead”
In 1346 a Tartar army picked a quarrel with Genoese merchants who traded in the Crimea, chased them into their coastal redoubt at Feodosiya, and laid siege to the town. The usual campaign of attrition was developing when the plans … Continue reading
CLERGY BURNOUT: THE AESTHETICS OF DISAPPOINTMENT
Believers and Deceivers. The findings have surfaced with ominous regularity over the last few years, and with little notice: Members of the clergy now suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans. In the last decade, … Continue reading
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NOWHERE PEOPLE: STRANDED IN ''NOWHERESVILLE''
”A few years ago, I told an English professor (who regularly teaches Thomas More’s Utopia in his Renaissance literature courses) that I was preparing to give a paper at a conference of the Society for Utopian Studies. He asked me where the meeting was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anabaptists Munster, Brueghel, Charles Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus, Erhard Schoen, Erhard Schoen Muenster, Erhard Schon, Francis Bacon, Hans Holbein, Henri Pirenne, Jan of Leiden, Jan of Leyden, Martin Luther, Pieter Bruegel, Reginald Pole, Richard H. Robbins, Sir Thomas More, utopianism, Utopias, William Latimer
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CHEATING DEATH: LIFE EXTENSION FRATERNITY
”Hubert Eaton was the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in Southern California. In fact, Eaton was responsible for revolutionizing the funeral industry. He established what is now known as the “memorial park,” which just means that the gravestones are … Continue reading
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Tagged Benedetto Bonfigli, Bonfigli, Bruce J. Klein, Etruscan art, Etruscan tombs, Giulio Romano, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Hindu funeral, Hubert Eaton, immortality Institute, King Tut, Life Extension Society, Lord Teynham, Robert Ettinger, Royal Graves at Ur, The Arundel Tomb, The Earl and Countess of Arundel
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