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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McMahon White, Aphrodite, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger, Bronzino, Claude Verlinde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Grote, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lucas Cranach, N.S. Gill, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli, Schliemann Troy, Shaft Graves Greece, Tracy Marks, Trojan War, Velasquez, Venus de Milo, Werner Keller the Bible as History, Woody Allen, Zeus and Ganymede, Zeus and Leda
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BLUE RIBBON BRONZE
The ancient marvels of bronze casting and sculpture could not be matched by medieval man. But, they were seen by Donatello, the sculptor who., like Ghiberti, bestrides the opening decades of the Renaissance. It was Donatello who created for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Leopardi, Andrea del Verrocchio, Andrew Butterfield Verrochio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Baum School of Art, Bronze casting, bronze sculpture, Charles C. Dent Memorial Garden, Charles Dent, Church of San Antonio Padua, Da Vinci, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Equestrian Bronze, Equisearch.com, Felix Fabri, Francois Girardon, Galileo, Garth Herrick, Ghiberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lorenzo di Credi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marc Gauthier, Marc Gauthier Art Historian, Meijer's Garden, Nina Akamu, Nina Akamu da Vinci, Pietro Tacca, Vasari, Velasquez, Verrocchio
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PORTRAIT OF A TUG OF WAR
Not every great age produced portraits. The Greeks made almost none, except on their coins, until the time of Alexander the Great, whose legions ranged over the world from India to Egypt. Alexander had his own private portrait artist, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Augustus John, Cezanne, Claude Manet, Claude Monet, Daguerre, Frederigo da Montefeltro, Graham Sutherland, Ivan Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Joseph E. Widener, Karsh photographs, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lysippus Sculptor, Mrs. Leigh Block, National Gallery of Art Washington, Picasso, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Van Gogh, Velasquez, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Yousef Karsh
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LEGENDS ON THE WILD SIDE
Of all creatures on earth, the rhinoceros appears at first glance the least likely to be associated with the art of love. The great horn that decorates his nose, and from which his name is derived, is not generally considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Ross, Albrecht Durer, Dali Rhinoceros Horn, Ingres, Josh Sonnier, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marco Polo, Odell Shepard, Paul Cezanne, Raphael, Rhinoceros, Richard de Fournival, Salvador dali, Salvador Dali Vermeer, The Unicorn Tapestries, Theo Jansen, Velasquez, Vermeer the Lacemaker, Vermerr Dali Rhinoceros
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PICASSO & WOMEN IN WAITING
”The Europeans had shown the way; yet the avant-garde American artists had to work desperately to break away from the influence of the School of Paris and especially from that Olympian, Pablo Picasso. Like the Collective Unconscious or the dreams … Continue reading
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Tagged Arshile Gorky, Chaim Koppelman, Courbet, Eli Siegel, Eugene Delacroix, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Velasquez, willem de Kooning, William De Kooning
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RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS
”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Ross, Adorno, Andrew Wyeth, Carl Jung, Dali, Herschel B. Chipp, Jean Dubuffet, Leonard Baskin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Picasso Guernica, Salvador dali, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fascism, Theodor Adorno, Velasquez, Vermeer
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