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Tag Archives: Virgil Aenid
banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Augustus banishes Julia, Augustus banishes Ovid, E.M. Forster, Edmund Spenser, Horace, JMW Turner, Johann Heinrich Schonfeld, john dryden, John Milton, Joseph Mallord William Turner, L. Aemilius Paulus, Livy historian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maecenas and Augustus, Ovid, Ovid Art of Love, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Aenid, Virgil and Horace
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peasant and poet : mind over matter
Monsu Pussino and the gradual retreat of instinct. The ideal is clear. Painting, as one of Nicolas Poussin’s admirer’s put it, must “talk”. A canvas should not only be visible to the eye but legible to the mind. Listing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Cervantes, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, felibien, Jacopo Sannazaro, james frazer the golden bough, John Milton Paradise Lost, Keith Christiansen, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietro de cortona, raphael's form, Richard Wolheim, Titian, Virgil Aenid
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THE YEAR ONE A.D. (Y0001K Bug)
The year one. In retrospect it was a big date.It was year 754 to the Romans, and year 3761 to the Jews. Decisive years, like decisive battles , are an old favorite with historians. More often however, great historical processes … Continue reading
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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X-TREME COMPOSITION & AGONY OF INDIFFERENCE
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ( Elie Wiesel … Continue reading
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Tagged Chopin, Eleanor Holmes, Elie Wiesel, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Marc Chagall, Paul Groves, Robert Lepage, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Sir Andrew Davis, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, Weber, Wilfred Mellers, www.andywarholgallery.com, www.brusselsjournal.com
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MAESTRO OF LOVE & BETRAYAL
”Nothing in my artistic career hurt me more deeply than this unexpected indifference. It was a painful discovery, but it was at least salutary, in that I learnt from it, and from then on I have not gambled even twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Benvenuto Cellini, Dante Alighieri, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, George Bernard Shaw, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Wernicke, Julio de Diego, Martin Cooper, Paul Gottfried, Richard Wagner, Shostrakovich, Sylvain Cambreling, The Aenid, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, www.brusselsjournal.com, www.salomon.org.uk
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