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Tag Archives: James Tissot
trial of JC: 12 angry pharisees
Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender?… The author of Mark endeavors to meet the difficulty by transferring the responsibility … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arch of Titus, Flavius Josephus, Francesco Hayez, Giotto di Bordone, James Tissot, Josephus the Jewish War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Markan Gospel, Pauline Christians, rabbi tovia singer, Schmuley Boteach, Shlomo Amar, Synoptic Gospels, Tacitus, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish Revolt, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian
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dual diction
The massive, gossipy Journal of the Goncourt brothers is one of the longest, most absorbing, and perhaps the most enlightening diary in European literature. It is the brilliantly observed, vividly recorded details that make the essential merit of the Goncourt … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aby Warburg, Edmond Goncourt, Emile Zola, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Journal, Gustave Dore, James Tissot, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Baldwin, Samuel Pepys, William Hickey
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dual core
The paintings and art of the Orientalists, including photography, fostered tourism and a fascination with the Orient that shaped and reinforced the Western image of the Orient that is subjectively under the sway of still existing colonial motivations, religious intolerance … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Davidson, Eduard Charlemont, Edward Said, francois molins, H.G. Wells, Jacques Lacan, James Tissot, Jean Genet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed Merah, Rabbi Sandler toulouse, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, toulouse killings
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academy of drab
The Royal Academy. The general notion of the artist as wild man was quite out of place in the hey day of the Royal Academy. The notion of art as an enclosed world, obedient to its own laws only, did … Continue reading
SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND
“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading
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