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Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Monday, 23 June 2014

Introduction to August's Wiredrawing Bench

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In the heart of royal Dresden, along the Augustusstrasse , attached to the back of the Royal Mews, a 102 metre long ceramic mural dominate...
Saturday, 4 January 2014

The Montalto Madonna and the intellectual and spiritual life of Cardinal Peretti di Montalto

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My thought soars not so high ; though duly bent In reverence, and awe, and long attent, To study Nature and the works and ways, So wondrous,...
Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Tasso and the Search for En-light-enment

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It has long been appreciated that an interdisciplinary approach has to be taken when looking at the arts. A book from 1922 said the 'p...
Sunday, 15 December 2013

My Love Affair with Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montalto Begins

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Although the intellectual life of the artist is crucial, my focus this weekend has been on the patron and his concerns. I'm coming rou...
Sunday, 8 December 2013

Visions, Families and Torments: Carracci and Saints

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Perhaps it's just me, or the pernicious influence of academia but sometimes the actual paintings can get lost in the amount of theory ...
Saturday, 7 December 2013

Carracci on Copper: Initial essay ramblings

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This post arises out of my initial essay ramblings about the artist Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609). I am setting out...
Friday, 1 March 2013

Failure is never an option

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The last time I wrote a non post it was during the research stage of my first essay. And here I am again writing something before the sec...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Shhh - do not disturb

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Apologies for the brief hiatus on the Utterances. I'm currently in the middle of a piece of work looking at the use of space in Chris Or...