Tag Archives: Mannerism painting

trojan horse

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

As a political metaphor, the Trojan Horse is usually perceived as some kind of malignant virus, socialism mixed with radical jihad, anti-poverty advocates and Bernie Saunders groupies and Emma Goldman legacy projects that through subterfuge and guile under the greater … Continue reading →

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THREADS OF HORROR FROM THE "EVIL GENIUS"

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Dave

“What in effect Caravaggio is doing systematically and deliberately, for the first time in the history of art, is destroying the space between the event in the painting and the people looking at it…” “Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) … Continue reading →

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STRANGE MANNERISMS

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Dave

The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading →

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