The Drunken Silenus
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The Drunken Silenus
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Author : Morgan Meis
language : en
Publisher:
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Body Of The Artisan
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Author : Pamela H. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-01-16
The Body Of The Artisan written by Pamela H. Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-16 with Art categories.
Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In The Body of the Artisan, Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans. From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters, artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, The Body of the Artisan provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever altered the way we see the natural world.
Atlantis
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Author : Gerhart Hauptmann
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2005-12-01
Atlantis written by Gerhart Hauptmann and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-01 with Fiction categories.
The three of them together now walked a rather long distance to a wild section of the garden, where it had turned completely dark. The wind began to rush, and the shrubs, trees and bushes of the garden swished like breakers on the shore. The stoker beckoned to them, and they squatted on the ground in a circle. It seemed as if the stoker with his bare hand had taken a bit of burning wood from his pocket. He held it close to the ground, to illuminate a round opening, something like the burrow of a marmot or a rabbit. "Legno santo," said Peter Schmidt, pointing to the glowing piece of charcoal. "Now, Frederick, you will get to see those antlike little elves that are called noctiluci or night-lights. They pompously call themselves Toilers of the Light. But whatever their name, it must be admitted that they are the ones that take the light hidden in the entrails of the earth, store it up, and sow it in fields, the soil of which has been especially prepared; and when it has grown to its full size and has borne fruit a hundredfold in the shape of gold sheaves or nuggets, they harvest it and save it for the darkest of dark times." And, actually, looking through a crevice, Frederick saw something like another world, with a subterranean sun shining on it. A multitude of little elves, the Toilers of the Light, were mowing with scythes, cutting stalks, binding sheaves, loading carts, and storing in barns. Many cut the light out of the ground, like nuggets of gold. Undoubtedly it was the gold meant for the mint in Washington that was haunting Frederick's dreams.
Roman Glass
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Author : Stuart J. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Release Date : 1999
Roman Glass written by Stuart J. Fleming and has been published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
Follow the way social attitudes and historical events—among them, slavery and materialism, wars and plagues—influenced how glassworking developed in the Roman world from the mid-first century B.C. to the late sixth century A.D. Woven into this story is the place of glassware in Roman everyday life, from the lady-of-the-house's cosmetic preparations each morning to the setting of table for the evening meal. Included are two special appendices: one considers the technology of ancient glassmaking, the other summarizes ancient opinions on the properties and merits of glass.
Rubens S Spirit
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Author : Alexander Marr
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Rubens S Spirit written by Alexander Marr and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Art categories.
Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to three interrelated themes: spirit, ingenuity, and genius. It argues that Rubens and his reception were pivotal in the transformation of early modern ingenuity into Romantic genius. Ranging across the artist’s entire career, it explores Rubens’s engagement with these themes in his art and life. Alexander Marr looks at Rubens’s forays into altarpiece painting in Italy as well as his collaborations with fellow artists in his hometown of Antwerp, and his complex relationship with the spirit of pleasure. It concludes with his late landscapes in connection to genius loci, the spirit of the place.
