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malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property
Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Godwin, William Hazlitt
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service before show
The travails and perils of finding a home. In the case of the Duke of Wellington, it took on palatial magnitude. Poor chap. All he really wanted was a little place in the country to relax and hunt. But to … Continue reading
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Tagged Apsley House, battle of waterloo, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Blenheim palace, Duke of Wellington, Fonthill Abbey, John Ruskin, John Soane architect, Kitty marion, Lady Jane Wellesley, Mrs. Arbuthnot, Peter Snow Duke of Wellington, Peter Snow Journalist, Robert Smirke, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stratfield Saye, Walmer Castle, Wellington and Copenhagen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek, William Hazlitt
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search for a less than humble abode
Parliament voted a king’s ransom to that the Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley could have a home, a palace, a mansion, fit for his status as savior of the British empire. And after Waterloo that sum increased further. Yet house … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Soane architect, Mr. Clarke Jervoise, Robert Smirke, Sir Robert Walpole, Stratfield Saye, The Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, William Hazlitt, William Sadler
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house hunters
The Duke of Wellington’s prospects seemed pretty flat. The greatest war hero in English history, the Wonder of Waterloo could not dind a ducal home and the money was there from the Parliament. Lots of it, to create “a lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington, Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Splendens, Frederick Lamb, Harriette Wilson courtesan, John Rutter, John Soane, Lord Douro Wellington's son, Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, Lord Rivers Stratfield Saye, Robert Smirke, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stratfield Saye, William Beckford, William Hazlitt
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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting
The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Grosvenor Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Richard Wilson Royal Academy, The Grand Tour, the royal academy, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth
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george stubbs tears: putting a good face upon trade
The jockey with his invincibly English face is from a canvas by George Stubbs ( 1724-1806 ) who is so well known for his portraits of horses as to obscure the fact that he painted their owners and handlers with … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, George Stubbs, j.m.w. turner, royal academy of the arts, sir anthony carlisle, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Powell Frith
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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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zep tepi, poussin and geometrical coincidence
Is Google the ultimate Time Travel? If you read the following do so at your own risk….good grief …Zep Tepi is the ancient method of Zero Point Alchemy, activating the vacuum dynamics within the Vortex of Creation (Black Hole of … Continue reading