“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
This is another MUST SEE place on my list! Palazzo della Ragione, Padua Those frescoes – Schwoon :o) One of the frescoes is the image below. Who is she? LOOK AGAIN! Yup. She looks very much like Mary and the Holy Child but she’s NOT! In a Catholic country, in the 15th century, Venus and […]
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I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici was so rich and so famous that he could not walk out in public amongst his plebs…for fear of assassination (?) So he spent squillions to have the also-but-not-quite-as famous Vasari build him an escape route way above the commoners’ heads. It is called – The Vasari Corridor Good […]
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Judith beheading Holofernes Salome with the head of John Clueage…One carries a Sword of Justice!!!!!!!! Caravaggio Vibe ? P.S. Hol – OFF -‘er – knees?
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Image above title from Wiki : Modern depiction of the caduceus as the symbol of logistics. Y’all can go around the houses, up and down, left and right, back and front with YOUR Logic. But – for me – the Caduceus is a symbol that is PERFECTLY encoded. The straight staff in the middle depicts […]
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Have I just noticed something? Well. I’ve not SEEN this mentioned – yet – though it may be well known. A cutting of the Bronzino Allegory of Public Happiness has just shown me something that I’ve yet to see explained. See image above. Folly Defeated. I noticed the Jester Cap. The bells around his leg […]
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GB 11th October 2019 : Beatrice’s Spell The past few weeks of research have given me a truly unexpected link to the post above. I’ve gone back to re-reading this book because of the new name that has just been given to me. Giovanni Guerra Their link is just one half a sentence… though he […]
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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER___ ‘An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming.’ GUARDIAN___ Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote […]
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Noli Me Tangere
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I’ve always called him Jürgen the German. Because I can never remember his surname! If you are a Brit, you will KNOW this song. You will KNOW how and why You’ll Never Walk Alone became an anthem. And you’ll KNOW about Liverpool Football Club. ‘Nuff said.
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The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness By Greta Brookes Bronzino spent many years as court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence during the 16th century. The painting above is called The Allegory of Public Happiness and like many, if not all, of the Renaissance works of art, it contains within the […]
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Below is the first part of a much longer article. The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness By Greta Brookes Bronzino spent many years as court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence during the 16th century. The painting above is called The Allegory of Public Happiness and like many, if not all, […]
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