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Drunken Silenus
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Author : Morgan Meis
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-04-09
Drunken Silenus written by Morgan Meis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with Art categories.
The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born and educated all over again--and why Rubens depicted him not as a character out of a farce, but as one whose plight evokes pity and compassion. The narrative spirals out from there, taking in the history of Antwerp, bloody seventeenth-century religious wars, tales of Rubens's father's near-execution for sleeping with William of Orange's wife, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the impossibility of there being any meaning to human life, and the destruction of all civilization by nefarious forces within ourselves. All of this is conveyed in language that crackles with intelligence, wit, and dark humor--a voice that at times sounds a bit tipsy and garrulous, but which ultimately asks us to confront the deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and hope in the face of death and tragedy.
The Drunken Silenus
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Author : Morgan Meis
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-04-09
The Drunken Silenus written by Morgan Meis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with Art categories.
The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born and educated all over again--and why Rubens depicted him not as a character out of a farce, but as one whose plight evokes pity and compassion. The narrative spirals out from there, taking in the history of Antwerp, bloody seventeenth-century religious wars, tales of Rubens's father's near-execution for sleeping with William of Orange's wife, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the impossibility of there being any meaning to human life, and the destruction of all civilization by nefarious forces within ourselves. All of this is conveyed in language that crackles with intelligence, wit, and dark humor--a voice that at times sounds a bit tipsy and garrulous, but which ultimately asks us to confront the deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and hope in the face of death and tragedy.
The Drunken Silenus With Satyrs And Bacchantes
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Author : Anton van Dyck
language : la
Publisher:
Release Date : 1643
The Drunken Silenus With Satyrs And Bacchantes written by Anton van Dyck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1643 with categories.
Ein trunkener Silen, der von einer Bacchantin und drei Männern gestützt wird. Zwei der Männer im Hintergrund trinken und verhalten sich lüstern. Laut Beischrift in Tinte ist die Vorlage Gonzalo Coques zugewiesen, ebenso im alten Inventar. Bei diesem handelt es sich um den Widmungsempfänger; die Vorlage bildet das gleichnamige spiegelverkehrte Gemälde von van Dyck.
Comic Overtones And Moral Undertones In Ribera S Drunken Silenus
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Author : Laura Gatewood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Comic Overtones And Moral Undertones In Ribera S Drunken Silenus written by Laura Gatewood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Mythology, Classical, in art categories.
Intoxication And Excoriation
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Author : Giulia Bernardini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Intoxication And Excoriation written by Giulia Bernardini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Painting For The Eye
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Author : Anna Buxton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Painting For The Eye written by Anna Buxton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Electronic dissertations categories.
In 1747, newly appointed Directeur general des Batiments du Roi, Charles - Francois Le Normand de Tournehem organized a concours, or competition, in the French Royal Academy. He hoped to reinvigorate history painting at a time when Rococo themes dominated. With this challenge before him, Tournehem invited ten of the better known academic painters to produce works which challenged the norms of the popular frivolous style. De Tournehem expected edifying subject matter, such as the ennobling themes produced by Poussin in the previous century, however, the majority of the competitors chose traditional mythological scenes which were not so different from their Rococo counterparts. Among the participants, Carle Vanloo submitted a painting of the Drunken Silenus (L'Ivresse de Silene) in a scene that seemingly mocked those very goals of the concours. In this work, the central figure is an old man so incapacitated by wine and his own weight that he leans unsteadily on his fellow revelers. This thesis explores the tension between the goals of the competition and the subject matter produced by Vanloo within the larger context of academic pedagogic shifts in the 18th century.
Goya
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Author : Victor I. Stoichita
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Goya written by Victor I. Stoichita and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Art categories.
This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the "world turned upside down". Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of the established order) were obsessions in Spanish culture in this period, and make provocative connections between the close of the 1700s and the end of the Millennium. Particular emphasis is placed on the artist's links to the underground tradition of the grotesque, the ugly and the violent. Goya's drawings, considered as a personal and secret laboratory, are foregrounded in a study that also reinterprets his paintings and engravings in the cultural context of his time.
The Rape Of The Masters
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Author : Roger Kimball
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2005
The Rape Of The Masters written by Roger Kimball and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
In this witty and provocative book, a noted art critic shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics--feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the whole armory of academic antihumanism.
Catalogue Of The Collection Of Assyrian Babylonian Egyptian Greek Etruscan Roman Indian Peruvian And Mexican Antiquities
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Author : Bram Hertz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1851
Catalogue Of The Collection Of Assyrian Babylonian Egyptian Greek Etruscan Roman Indian Peruvian And Mexican Antiquities written by Bram Hertz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with Antiquities categories.
Encyclopedia Of Comparative Iconography
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Author : Helene E. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Encyclopedia Of Comparative Iconography written by Helene E. Roberts and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Art categories.
First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
