... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Thursday, August 22, 2019
frances quarles extrapolates saint john's words on to the subject of bowling ... in puritanical england, some clergymen took a dim view ..
https://manifold.umn.edu/read/untitled-a5533014-27c2-48fd-a0fb-498976cbe4da/section/653a6a70-f1f6-41ea-839e-917db4a2fc56
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
graham sutherland illustrating frances quarles ... an original 1943 lithograph sold in tenby museum this week ... turns out to be a late manifestation of a long-lived publishing format
So have I seen a well-built castle, stand
Upon the tip-toes of a lofty hill,
Whose active power commands both sea & land,
And curbs the pride of the bleag’rers’ will;
At length her ag’d foundation fails her trust,
And lays her tott’ring ruins in the dust.
So have I seen the BLAZING TAPER shoot
Her golden head into the feeble air;
Whose shadow guilding ray, spread round about,
Makes the foul face of blade brow’d darkness fair;
Till at the length her waisting glory fades,
And leaves the night to her invet’rate shades
Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man published in 1637, was the sequel to Francis Quarles' best-selling Emblems (1635) which was lavishly illustrated, containing five books of meditative verse. The poems are introduced by a scriptural motto, then a commentary based on quotations from various sources, and at the end closure is achieved with a short didactic epigram. To Francis Quarles, an emblem is but a short parable and the verse puts the visual into the mental. In this way, the words and pictures complement each other, therefore having a double impact on the reader.
Sutherland's litho was from a set of three ... they are the first three images in this set ... http://www.williamweston.co.uk/item/artist_previous/233/1
there still exists an imprint of all three Sutherland designs on one sheet ...
https://www.gazette-drouot.com/lots/10311506
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26402658?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_book
Ah-ha ! After MUCH GOOGLE-ING ... Here's some proper scholarship relating to the printing of the Emblems ... by Whitney Trettien
"It is the argument of this chapter and this monograph more broadly that the creativity and cultural work of books like Theophila become legible when we read them not as texts but as multidimensional media objects designed with meaning and purpose."
https://manifold.umn.edu/read/untitled-a5533014-27c2-48fd-a0fb-498976cbe4da/section/653a6a70-f1f6-41ea-839e-917db4a2fc56
Monday, August 19, 2019
crows and ravens and jackdaws and magpies in art
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
titian ... the offerings to venus, c.1518 ... compare and contrast ... rubens, 1636 etc
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-worship-to-venus/42b30ed4-0e79-4f2b-aa62-091a27f895b3
rubens' copy of the titian ...
rubens' re-invention of the titian ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feast_of_Venus_(Rubens)
the preliminary sketch that fra bartolomeo had made of the subject, his commission and the sketch being passed on to titian after his death
footnote ... fra bartolomeo, a lovely painter, largely ignored since his achievements were overshadowed by the giants of the italian renaissance ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolomeo
full translation of philostratus of lemnos here ...
https://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusElder1A.html#6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostratus_of_Lemnos
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
playfully serious and seriously painterly ... the amazing margaret bowland ... who was caught in the unseemly scramble for the moral high ground by a bunch of people with knee-jerk intellects, sandpaper tongues and cloth ears
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