Tag Archives: Hans Memling

memling: serenity among the swords

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Dave

When interest in Hans Memling revived, about a century and a half ago, the truth about him, unearthed from archives in Bruges was not as romantic as previously conjectured. Memling was not Flemish, but German, and he had arrived in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Flemish Art, Hans Memling, J. Huizinga, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Renaud de Dassel, Rogier van der Weyden | Leave a comment

Memling: magic in the mediocre

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Dave

For in the metaphysical sense, if not the technical, Hans Memling was a primitive. And this is seen in his depiction of the mystery plays, which began as simple little tableaux performed in church and intended to beguile and inform … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Cecil, Duke Charles the Bold, Hans Memling, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Memling Seven Joys of Mary, Pietro Perugino, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden | Leave a comment

memling: pious little pictures

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Dave

The painting of A Lady with a Pink hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The pink, a flower that can symbolize betrothal, was the creation of Hans Memling whose realistic, but highly refined portraits mirrored fifteenth century Flemish society. Hans … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles the Bold, Duke Charles the Bold, E.H. Gombrich, Flemish primitives, Hans Memling, J. Huizinga, Jan van Eyck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden | Leave a comment

on that first good friday

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Dave

…in Alexandria, where there was a great need to damp down revolutionary feeling after the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” The … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Gospel of Mark, Hans Memling, Josephus Flavius, Josephus the Jewish War, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Gospels, Rossano Manuscript, Spencer Williams paintings, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus | Leave a comment

lets build something together: but not quite yet

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Dave

…One of the most famous such sources is a recounting in the Talmud of a story that occurred after the destruction, when several of the most prominent sages of the time, including Rabbi Akiva, went up to the Temple Mount. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aish Hatorah, Building the Third Temple, Dov Hikind, Gershon Salomon, Hans Memling, Jerusalem Syndrome, Louis Theroux, Maimonides, Major General Uzi Narkiss, Michael Moore Jerusalem Syndrome, Moshe Feiglin, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Akiva Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Richard Silverstein, Ushpizin movie, Zerach Warhaftig | Leave a comment

proposition 304805

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dave

It’s all there if you can find it. Its an old argument, one that ultimately may find science yielding to the Torah, accommodating itself to what is considered divine word, and not the defensive opposite which has commonly been a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Art Levitt, Barack Obama birth certificate, Barry S. Rothman, Doron Witzum, Eliyahu Rips, Hans Memling, Harold J. Gans, Ivan Panin, Marshall Masters, Michael Drosnin, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, Richard Shaw, Torah Code accuracy, Torah Codes, Yoav Rosenberg | Leave a comment

they want the whole enchilda

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Dave

Kahanism. Its an ideology that won’t go away. Part of the reason is the complicity of the far left, the establishment song and dance men like Gideon Levy promote a brand of Israeli jew at odds with what has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abraham Isaac Kook, David Rubinger, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Hana Shalbi, Hans Memling, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Indor, meir kahane, MK Benny Alon, MK Danny Danon, MK Michael Ben Ari, Noam Federman, Peter Bergson, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Yariv Oppenheimer | Leave a comment

temporal : foul fiend and friends

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

In Christian thought, the evil one has power only upon this earth, and only for a time. It is strange, therefore, to look at heaven through Eastern eyes and to see it filled with the apparitions of terror, ferocity and … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Hans Memling, Henry Fuseli, Saint george and dragon, tibetan paradise | Leave a comment

sightseeing on the river: slow boat in china

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Dave

When fair weather finally broke winter’s hold on the Yellow River valley, a whole great civilization went on holiday and a Sung dynasty painter recorded every detail… The Chinese scroll painting known as Ch’ing Ming Shang Ho, or Spring Festival … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bruce lee, ch'ing ming shang ho, china's mona lisa, chinese scroll painting, dong yuan, fan kuan, five dynasties period, Hans Memling, hong hao, hui tsung, jing hao, ju ran, Ming Dynasty, northern song period, spring festival on the river, zhang zeduan | Leave a comment

Attics of their mind

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Dave

Painters across the centuries, the millennia, have always conjured out of their imaginations, fantastic towers and cities which do not exist. Sometimes a product of the subconscious, and sometimes a liberal artistic freedom, these artists created a dream architecture of … Continue reading →