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Tag Archives: Jan van Eyck
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
from strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the overweening pretensions of technology and the social … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, j.r.r. tolkein, Jan van Eyck, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joy Davidman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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illuminations
Illuminations. The fifteenth-century illuminate manuscript as art form. It was an art, as Poussin said, that appealed to the pleasures of intelligence; pleasures which are above all others. As opposed to frivolous art for amusement. Philippe de Mazerolles – … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Duke Charles the Bold, Girart de Roussillon, illuminated manuscripts, Jan van Eyck, Jean le Tavernier, Lievin van Lathem, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Loyset Liedet, Loyset Lyedet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Medieval Illuminated manuscripts, Philippe de Mazerolles, Roger von der Weyden, Rogier van der Weyden, Simon Marmion, The Book of Hours, Willem Vrelant
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chilling in the city of the sun
People have always tried to imagine the world as it might become, dissatisfied as we are, with the world as it exists. … For a century after Thomas More there was no sign of significant new utopias. Then within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Francis Bacon New Atlantis, Heinrich Schickhardt, J.V. Andreae, J.V. Andreae Christianopolis, Jan van Eyck, Johann Valentin Andreae, John Heydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Mignard painting, Sir Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Will Durant
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someone stole gabriel’s horn
It was scarcely satisfactory. Artists wanted to distinguish the heavenly messengers from the other young male figures such as the disciples of Jesus and Jesus himself. Greek and Roman Christian poets, elaborating on the Gospel stories, introduced traditional classical imagery. … Continue reading
the good companions: spirits having flown
Why do angels have wings? 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. After we emerged from the cave, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged foundling hospital florence, gabriel angel, Ghirlandaio, greek gods, Harold Bloom, henry hagemann, Hubert van Eyck, Jacob wrestling with angel, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, jewish priest zacharias, rabbi akiba, William Blake, william bouguereau, Wings of Victory
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perilous exile to zimzum
An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud
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