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children should be painted and not herd
Salon painting.And children. Sympathy for the poor things with an equally normal but less open response to their charms. Unlike Salon painting of women who were usually lashed to a stake, tortured or languishing in prisons condemned to sleeping on … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, coventry patmore, emil munier, ferdinand waldmuller, French Salon painting, John Everett Millais, john george brown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Wassily Kandinsky
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angels and the catastrophe of history:waiting for his master’s voice
Why do angels have wings? What do angels mean today? In early Christian times God’s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world, Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths dressing … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged coventry patmore, douglas bourgeois, Emil Jannings, Gershom Scholem, John Milton, John Ruskin, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Buber, Paul Klee, randy newman harps and angels, Robert ParkeHarrison, steve pinker, Thorstein Veblen, walter benjamin angel of history
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