Tag Archives: Anthony Blunt

philby: sweet little lies

The cult of the secret agent. Their activity has always posed a deadly threat to the open society… In the netherworld of espionage, a particular odium, and with it a particular fascination, attaches to that distorted mirror image of the … Continue reading

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great Yugas: we’re back

Moreover, since the one life, which they believed lives in all, is everlasting, the wise put themselves in accord with all its intermeshing rhythms and participate, here and now, in its eternity. Even during the inevitable terminal ages, virtue and … Continue reading

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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant

Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading

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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS

Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading

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