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Tag Archives: Hans Memling
hunting for heroes
Our present period,at least in the Western world, is in difficulties about its heroes. Heroism, understood as courage in action, we can still recognize and applaud; but the individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age tends to … Continue reading
bruges: frozen when things went fatally wrong
If Bruges had not existed it might have been invented by the Neo-Gothics of the nineteenth century. Its significant paintings are genuinely Pre-Raphaelite, its urban prospects picturesque, and its appeal to the literary mind certain. Nearly all of its architecture … Continue reading
memling: serenity among the swords
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
Memling: magic in the mediocre
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
memling: pious little pictures
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
on that first good friday
…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
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lets build something together: but not quite yet
…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
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they want the whole enchilda
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
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temporal : foul fiend and friends
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
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Tagged Hans Memling, Henry Fuseli, Saint george and dragon, tibetan paradise
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