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shaggy dog stories: the dog peeling the banana…
Sometimes the bark is worse than the bite. Sometimes its not…In the tradition of Greek mythology, Cerebrus, a triple headed canine, guarded the entrance of the gate of the dead, and served as a protector for those crossing over.Generally, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, B.F. Skinner, Carpaccio, Conrad Lorenz, Decaisne, Edgar Peters Bowron, Eric Knight, Gustave de Smet, Honoré Fragonard, Jack London, Jan van Eyck, Joshua Reynolds, Konrad Lorenz, Pierre gobert, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Vittoro Carpaccio, white fang jack london
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castles of the imagination: architecture of the mind
Some great buildings are never built. It’s imaginary architecture. Painters over the centuries have conjured up fantastic towers, and refined and elegant mansions of the imagination. This is often a dream architecture that is occasionally gaudy, often improbable and almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Aisling Campbell, Ambroglio Lorenzetti, Carpaccio, Charles Darwin, International Style, Jia ZhangKe, John Ruskin, Kay Sage, Leonardo DiCaprio, M.C. Escher, Michael Balfe, Pietro Lorenzetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Carlyle, Van Bassen, Vittoro Carpaccio, Wilhelm Pinder, Zhang Ke Jia The World
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Just a little fix-me-upper
Conjuring up fantastic towers and non-existant cities, painters across the centuries have created a dream architecture of gaudy, improbable, and often psychologically revealing buildings. They are mansions of the imagination, as if the expansiveness of such imagination could be limited … Continue reading
THE SINKING OF NARCISSISTIC DELIGHT
For a thousand years Venice held “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. The Napoleon saw a bluff- and called it. … Napoleon himself commanded the French armies in Italy. But for five centuries … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Miller Venice, Allan Miller Berkshire Review, Elaine Pilkington, Gentile Bellini, Goldoni, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Lord Byron, Mayor Orsoni Venice, Philippe Monnier, Rick Steves, Vittoro Carpaccio, William Wordsworth
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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