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the wright stuff
Joseph Wright of Derby was the first English painter to take his themes from science, and his titles were as precise as his details. The picture below, exhibited in 1766, was called A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery … Continue reading
canaletto: one sunny afternoon
Twas’ a sunny day. Canaletto in London. He painted, in 1746, his A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palce; the city of London as it looked on that sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. We … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Dickens, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morton's Tower London, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, the Adams brothers design, Westminster Bridge, William Hogarth
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canaletto and London: a bit too postcard perfect
The best of cities, in the best of seasons. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon. After all, the picture is just too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. … Continue reading
canaletto: sunny afternoon
Canaletto in London…. The picture is so pleasant, as a matter of fact,that only a tourist could believe it. The eighteenth-century was, above all, a time of wrenching contrast between rich and poor; of starvation, riots, soaring death rates; a … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Charles James Fox, Charles James Fox gambling, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Judith Dufour, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, William Hogarth
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manliness: battles of epping forest
Long hair, tight pants, and other masculine things, then as now, some things don’t change… …But, you might argue, the Renaissance was a time of violent change, one of those exceptional epochs when an old morality was breaking down and … Continue reading
swift kick in the keegster
Psst! Pass the bum wipe. Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading
just find a good tree
All’s quiet on the Leftern Front. How can the left massage the data, strain some liberal secular humanism out of the issue of attempted lynching of Sudanese refugees/illegals in the Moslem Israel village of Kfar Manda. Here, they don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans for Peace Now, Eritrean refugees Israel, Francisco Goya, Goya Disasters of War, gush katif, International Solidarity Movement ISM, Jacques Callot, Jewish Voices for Peace, Kfar Manda brawl with Eritreans, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitchell Plitnick, MK Michael Ben Ari, Post Zionism, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, SOS Israel, thirty years war, Ulpana Beit El, William Hogarth, William Hogarth Wheel of Fortune
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the nile: slow boat to cairo
The Nile. “The bringer of food… creator of all good. lord of majesty” is no longer worshiped as a god, but it still controls the lives of the people who live along its banks… Ancient Egyptians rejoiced in the thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbasid caliphate, Cleopatra in Egypt, Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian History, Gerard De Lairesse, John Speke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Mamluks rule Egypt, Ottomans in Egypt, Richard Burton, The Nile River History, William Hogarth
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according to hoyle: dicing on the card sharpers
In Las Vegas, the hotel windows are always locked to prevent jumping. Samuel Pepy’s was one of the first to articulate the phenomenon, calling it “deep gaming”, a kind of instinct deep rooted based on the idea, counter to Einstein, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Atherton author, Charles II England, Edmund Hoyle, Einstein, Henry Fielding, Herbert M. Atherton, James Balmford, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Northbrooke, Restoration of Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Susanna Centlive, Thomas Gataker, Thomas Rowlandson, William Byrd III, William Hogarth
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