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vtpanther posted Of Michelangelo, Newton, and Nicodemus | 6 days ago

I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep so ... I decided to watch the NOVA special on Sir Isaac Newton (Newton's Dark Secrets). The connections to the work I have been doing on Michelangelo are well stated in the conclusions the documentary draws about this enigma of the...

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vtpanther posted The Passive Aggressive Chapel | 6 days ago

Who'ld would have thought that that Michelangelo would turn out to be the patron saint of the passive aggressive and that the Sistine Chapel would turn out to be the greatest monument to the Protestant Reformation and Jewish mysticism? I just finished reading Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner's book...

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vtpanther posted Protagonist | 6 days ago

The documentary, Protagonist takes a creative approach to the pursuit of a better understanding of Greek tragedy and contemporary human tragedy. The official website describes the movie in the following words. PROTAGONIST explores extremism through contrasting stories of personal revelation. The...

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vtpanther posted The Power of Art History | Jul 9, 2008

"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen." Walter Bagehot I just finished watching disc one of Simon Schama's documentary, The Power of Art. I definitely...