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Tag Archives: Albrecht Durer
The Devil Trying to Disrupt and Discourage the Heroic Vitalist
This Albrecht Durer drawing from 1513 made me think of John Calvin (who was born in 1509). I like Durer’s depiction of the devil on the left side of the drawing, with his Medusa-echoing snake hair and taunting display of … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th century, Albrecht Durer, Apollo, armor, Calvin, Calvinism, Dionysus, faith, John Calvin, mars hill, Satan, the devil
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You’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe?: An Albrecht Durer Portrait of a Young Venetian Renaissance Woman
Albrecht Durer, painting during the European Renaissance, gives us a striking image of the “new” woman of his time. Here is no humble devotee to medieval religious orders, eyes cast downward and veiled before men, but someone simultaneously displaying herself … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, Christianity, feminism, Islam, Italy, life, Nuns, paganism, poetry, Venice, women
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Albrecht Durer, Female Objectification, and the Western Male Gaze: An Image of a Man Drawing a Woman Through a Perspectival Frame (1525)
The matter at hand. Are pornography, science, and art born of the same family of impulses—that is, to frame, and thereby comprehend, control, and derive pleasure from, cthonian forces? And is that a bush on his windowsill? And are those two hills … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, Camille Paglia, drawing, feminism, poetry, religion, Santi Tafarella, science, sex
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Severe Hawkeye: Albrecht Durer Paints His 70 Year Old Father
“Marble heavy, a bag full of God.” –Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, fathers, Germany, God, God the Father, image, painting, photo, Santi Tafarella, Sylvia Plath
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