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Monthly Archives: April 2010
THE ANDROGYNOUS STRAIN
“…if we conceive the world in that vast extension you give it, it is impossible that man conserve himself therein in this honorable rank, on the contrary, he shall consider himself along with the entire earth he inhabits as in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, Bulstrode Whitelocke, Dover Publications, Engraving by Quillet, Erasmus Quellinus, friendsofjade.org, Greta Garbo, Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus Adolphus Sweden, Gustavus Hesselius, Ivan Michael Praetorius, Joanne mattern, Johann Adler Salvius, John Cottingham, Kristina Wasa, Nils Forsberg, Pierre-Louis Dumesnil the Younger, Queen Christina of Sweden, Rene Descartes, Roger Kimball, Roger Kimball The New Criterion, Suzanna Akerman, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, www.friendsofjade.org
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MINESTRONIES AND MACARONIES
“Why did yankee doodle stick a feather in his hat and call it macaroni? Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta ‘macaroni’ in the line that reads … Continue reading
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Tagged British pictorial satire, British pictorial satire and cartoon, Carrington Bowles, Dorothy Boyle, George Townshend, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Mark Bryant, Mary Darly, Robert Dighton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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LOVE THE STORM AND FEAR THE CALM
Christina of Sweden( 1626-89) was the paradoxical monarch. ”Astrologers predict she will be a boy, and when she is born with a caul over her pelvis, she is believed at first to be a boy. Her mother rejects her because … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Bonnie Zimmerman, Feminism, Greta Garbo, Ivan Michael Praetorius, Jacob Elbfas, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Joanne mattern, Lesbian Studies, Queen Christina of Sweden, Rene Descartes, Sarah Waters, Suzanna Akerman, Torrey Philemon, Tracy Marks, Women's Studies, www.levity.com, www.windweaver.com
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PURITY OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS SOUL
Charles Dickens’s novels are far more crowded with orphaned children than the usefulness of having such malleable and pathetic agents in a work of fiction would seem to demand. In ”David Copperfield” , for example, Em’ly, Traddles, the Orfling, Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Clive James, Clivejames.com, David Copperfield, Dickens, Dickens David Copperfield, G.K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Humphrey House, Jeremy Bentham, John Carey, Philip Horne, www.victorianstation.com
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OBSCURED BY CLOUDS
”But archaeologists are trained to keep their noses to the ground, preferably below ground. Their grasp of the nitty-gritty doesn’t allow them to see the wood for the trees. So they rarely find the genuine Lost Cities out in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Aztec Art, Chachapoyas Culture, Cieza de Leon, Garcilasco de la Vega, Garcilaso de la Vega, Gene Savoy, Gran Pajaten, H. James Birx, Holland Cotter, Holland Cotter New York Times, Incas, Nicholas Asheshov, Pajatan Peru, Pajaten Peru, Sage Publications, Stuart A. Altmann, The George Wright Forum, Tupac Yupanqui, Warren B. Church
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BLUE RIBBON BRONZE
The ancient marvels of bronze casting and sculpture could not be matched by medieval man. But, they were seen by Donatello, the sculptor who., like Ghiberti, bestrides the opening decades of the Renaissance. It was Donatello who created for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Leopardi, Andrea del Verrocchio, Andrew Butterfield Verrochio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Baum School of Art, Bronze casting, bronze sculpture, Charles C. Dent Memorial Garden, Charles Dent, Church of San Antonio Padua, Da Vinci, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Equestrian Bronze, Equisearch.com, Felix Fabri, Francois Girardon, Galileo, Garth Herrick, Ghiberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lorenzo di Credi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marc Gauthier, Marc Gauthier Art Historian, Meijer's Garden, Nina Akamu, Nina Akamu da Vinci, Pietro Tacca, Vasari, Velasquez, Verrocchio
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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE
”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Solomon, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens Childhood, Charles Dickens John Forster, Dickens Bob Fagin, Dickens David Copperfield, Dickens Great Expectations, Dickens James Lamert, Dickens Marshalea Prison, Dickens Pickwick papers, Elizabeth Dickens, Fanny Dickens, G.F. Watts, George Edgar Hicks, George Frederick Watts, James Lamert, Jeremy Paxman, John Dickens, John Forster, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Luke Fildes, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Susan L. Reviere, Warren's Blacking Factory, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith
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