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Christopher R.W Nevinson (1889-1946), "The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice", 1934, oil on canvas, 46 cm x 61 cm (18.11 in x 24.0 in). International War Museum, London.
Christopher R.W Nevinson (1889-1946), "The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice", 1934, oil on canvas, 46 cm x 61 cm (18.11 in x 24.0 in). International War Museum, London.
"For Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure and it amazes us so...” Rainer Maria Rilke
Art & Power
Summer 2023
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BEAUTY AS TERROR:
The Vision of C R W Nevinson |
SUNDAY AT THE LODGE WITH HERMANN GÖRING: Reflections on Civilized Brutality
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THE FINE ARTS OF WAR: Holbein, Cranach and Dürer As You Never Knew Them
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"It was a thrilling period: the Renaissance of English art was at hand. The artists were ready, and the canvas was the battlefield of Europe..."--Nevile A.D. Wallis, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
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"A world of men enslaved to a terrific machine of their own making..."--Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
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“For Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which are barely able to endure and it amazes us so...” Thus wrote the poet Rilke with his characteristic grace and mystery, capturing the peculiar uneasiness that is felt in witnessing works of Nature or art that seem to overwhelm the senses. Then, there is a form of Beauty-as-Terror that takes this sentiment a step further: the stunning Renaissance tradition of craftsmanship in weapons of dignified destruction.
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THE BATTLE OF THE BATTLES OF LEPANTO
The naval clash of civilizations that inspired some of the most breathtaking interpretations in the history of art. Herein a selection of the top six. Continued... They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea, And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross, The cold queen of England is looking in the glass; The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass; From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun, And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.... --Lepanto, G. K. Chesterton, 1927 "This wave of Christian chivalry that thus swept Cervantes with it culminated in the famous battle of Lepanto, one of the world's great sea-fights. That day the 7th of October, 1571 was the finest moment in the life of Cervantes. He was weak and ill of a fever when the battle began, he received three gunshot wounds in the course of it, and his left hand was permanently maimed, yet his share in the glory of that day was ever afterwards a source of pride and joy." --Havelock Ellis The Tercentenary of "Don Quixote", The North American Review, May 1905 |
THE MELANCHOLY OF GOYA
The Disasters of War is a series of 82 prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). The name by which the series is known today is not Goya's own. His handwritten title on an album of proofs given to a friend reads: Fatal Consequences of Spain's Bloody War with Bonaparte, and Other Emphatic Caprices (Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte, Y otros caprichos enfáticos |
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What Makes This Painting Great? Conversations with a Curator Gabriele Reina, PhD. The Luigi M. Koelliker Collection Summer 2023 The mystery of the Davide e Golia (1625) of Tanzio da Varallo, the beautiful and little-known Pinacoteca that is home to this splendid work and many more and other erudite expositions across a wide canvas of imagination, ideas and inspiration. |