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Save it as your phone wallpaper
Save it as your phone wallpaper. “Pissing Death” or “Death at the Water” by Max Klinger, the founder of the gloomy school of graphic art and a neoclassicist, 1880, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.
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Carel Fabritius, pupil of Rembrandt, killed in the 1654 explosion of gunpowder stores in Delft
Self-portrait of Carel Fabritius, founder of the Delft school of painting, killed on this day in 1654 in the monstrous explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Delft, where he had settled four years before his death. The artist lived to be only 32, yet managed to win renown as
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Nureyev’s Autobiography and “Women of Japan” in Truffaut’s “Bed and Board”
Can a couple be happy if she is reading Nureyev's autobiography and he is reading "Women of Japan"? To find a reading person at all is already happiness, of course. And then, if we turn to the plot of "Bed and Board" from François
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Virginia Woolf and her work “A Room of One's Own”
Perhaps the history of men's struggle against women's emancipation is more interesting than the story of emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Faith · Observations · Society · Nature
Pope Francis I, addressing TED, urges us to heed what scientists say about climate change and the need to act now to mitigate it
Pope Francis I, addressing TED, urges us to heed what scientists say about climate change and the need to act now to mitigate it. And, as is his custom, he appeals to our hearts, which fail to notice the suffering of the poorest and least protected amid growing inequality and
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If loyalty, then canine
If loyalty, then canine. So vivid a characterisation that the subject of a dog lying at its master's grave needs no explanation. A little-known painting by the animalier Alfred de Dreux, 1850, acquired by the Louvre in 2001.
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Pythagoras advised the athlete Eurymenes of Samos to eat meat instead of figs
It is worth noting that the wisdom with which Pythagoras helped the unpromising athlete Eurymenes would have provoked no small controversy, in his day and in ours alike. Eurymenes of Samos was short of stature, yet at the Olympic Games he overcame many a tall and mighty rival. Pythagoras had
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Probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", then banned in the United States: Paul Cadmus's "Jerry"
Paul Cadmus's painting "Jerry" is probably the first painted image of Joyce's "Ulysses", which was at that time banned in the United States. The portrait of the artist Jared French (1905-1988), by his lover Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), was painted during
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Teenage boys by a chain-link fence on a city playground, painting
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Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of…
Hypertrophied sexuality, a homoeroticism that pervades every sphere of life, drunken revels, debauchery, primitive amusements, a satirical view of the vices of society, the new America in all its colours: all this found expression in the work of Paul Cadmus, who painted in egg tempera, inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
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In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In, which became the subject of official proceedings after Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors…
In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In. It became the subject of official proceedings after the retired Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors, insulting to
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Men's fashion of autumn 1828 and wide trousers adopted from sailors' dress
Men's styles for autumn 1828 are rather varied, and the solicitous editor of the fashion journal explains that before us are sporting dress, a water costume and a festive suit. The sporting one is for riding, the festive one for an evening outing. And the "water"