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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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu, Anthony Blunt, Berossos Chaldean Priest, Darius Inscription, Darius the Great, Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, Great Yuga, Jean Cousin the Younger, Kali Yuga, Krita Yuga, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mati Klarwein, Saoshyant, Zoroaster Persian Prophet
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Allan Ramsay, Anthony Blunt, Anthony Van Dyck, Canaletto, Edward Cross, Erasmus, Hans Holbein the younger, Howard Jacobson, Jacques Laurent Agasse, James Voorhies, Johan Zoffany, John Gould, Joshua Reynolds, Lauren Fliegelman, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Sir Henry Guildford, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas More, William Etty
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