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future: like beads on an infinite string
The modern future was born, according to one dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440… …This linear conception of the time is another essential ingredient of the modern … Continue reading
something about clowns
Why do we need clowns? Perhaps because, in Francis Bacon’s words, “There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. ” … Of all the images that people have created for themselves, none is as … Continue reading
when the noble run free
The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … Continue reading
couch sweet potatoes
Two undraped ladies; each with troubles enough of their own. Not only look-alikes but contemporaries, each of them took a prominent part in a minor revolution. Adah Menken was a kind of nineteenth-century Marilyn Monroe, and like her a peripheral … Continue reading
bacon: instauratio magna
” for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be able to do.” Francis bacon’s gist for condensation is so remarkable that it is easy , almost four centuries later, in a … Continue reading
gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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the unexplained: Bacon’s believe it or rot
The Shakespeare hoax. The bard’s identity game is an old one. With Freud and Mark Twain even taking a kick at the can. James Hudson had a theory, plausible, in which Shakespeare was actually a woman, Amelia Bassano, a converso … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Bassano, Amelia Bassano Lanier, Dan Brown, david teniers the younger, edward de vere, james hudson shakespeare, james shapiro, Jonathan Kay national Post, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Nicolas Poussin, orville ward owen, Sir Francis Bacon
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THE BEARDED LADY: Don’t Tug Too Hard On The Bard’s Beard
Ghost writing in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Why would a man whose works portray well-educated, proto-feminist women raise his own daughter as illiterates as Shakespeare did? Amelia Bassano, on the other hand, made feminist history when she became the first English woman to … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged A.L. Rowse, Amelia Bassano, Amelia Bassano Lanier, Boyd Berry, Caroline Spurgeon, Christine de Pisan, Daniela Amini, Derek Jacobi, Dr. Ben Johnson, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ilya Gililov, Jenny Blain, John Hudson Dark lady Players, John Hudson Shakespeare, Kate McLuskie, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Henry Hundson, Mark Rylance, Martin Green, Michael Egan Shakespeare, Michael Posner, Shakespeare, Shakespeare authorship, Sir Francis Bacon, Stephanie Hopkins Hughes
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