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deep in the past
Deep in the past on the village green. One thousand years ago our forebears lived in a “Dark Age.” They themselves did not think it was dark, and they were only half wrong… Economically, the mark of tenth century country … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark Ages Economic life, Edgar the Pacific, Feudalism, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Otto I Germany, Otto III Holy Roman Emperor, Otto the Great, Petrarch Italian scholar, Professor Lynn White, Ronald Numbers Cambridge, The Dark Ages
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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
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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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are we playing in the same brand?
Watercolor paper is still apparently made much the way it has been since Duke of Berry let the ladies of the palace engage in the visual arts. That is, since Medieval times. Its mulched, pressed and literally hung out to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arches Canson, Arches watercolor paper, Duc de Berry, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, napoleon the description of egypt, turner watercolors, Voltaire, voltaire complete works
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how grows your garden: vegetable patch kids
Andre Le Notre laid out many noble gardens which soon became world famous. Versailles in particular was envied by every prince in Europe. And in the century and more that followed, these royal gardens were copied all over the civilized … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Le Notre, Capability Brown, Chateau versailles gardens, edward white garden, english landscape gardens, francis bacon on gardens, francois boucher paintings, Lancelot Brown, Les tres riches heures du duc de berry, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, renaissance gardens, reverend william hanbury, sir jeremiah colman, Tres Riches Heures
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have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b
Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake
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Attics of their mind
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
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Duc de Berry, Hans Memling, Hartman Schedel, Jean Duc de Berry, Leonardo Da Vinci, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nuremberg Chronicles, Robert Hunter, The Grateful Dead, Tres Riches Heures
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belles heures:piety for the privileged
…Even the Church was in trouble: it was rumored that not one soul had entered paradise since the Great Schism began. Outbreaks of the plague were common, taxes were high, and political stability unknown. In such a world, a beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloisters Museum, Duc de Berry, Edmond de Rothschild, Jean Duc de Berry, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Millard Meiss, The Belles Heures, The Cloisters, timothy husband
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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