Tag Archives: Jacopo Sannazaro

peasant and poet : mind over matter

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Dave

Monsu Pussino and the gradual retreat of instinct. The ideal is clear. Painting, as one of Nicolas Poussin’s admirer’s put it, must “talk”. A canvas should not only be visible to the eye but legible to the mind. Listing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Caravaggio, Cervantes, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, felibien, Jacopo Sannazaro, james frazer the golden bough, John Milton Paradise Lost, Keith Christiansen, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietro de cortona, raphael's form, Richard Wolheim, Titian, Virgil Aenid | Leave a comment

AWAKENED INTO A MYSTIC DARKNESS:THE FALLACY OF HOPE

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Apollo and Daphne, Charles Holme, Christopher Hitchens, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, English Painting, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Jacopo Sannazaro, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kaulbach, Nicolas Poussin, Ovid, Simon Schama, Sir Philip Sidney, Van Morrison, Virgil Thomson, Virgil Thomson Liberty, Walter Fawkes, William Hazlitt | Leave a comment

YEARNING FOR A LOST ARCADIA

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Dave

”The genuine friendship, and the enormous benefit it brought to an artist still carving out his reputation, made Turner’s behaviour in 1814, when he put a painting in for the annual British Institution prize, bewildering:( Ian ) Warrell is still … Continue reading →