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"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

In the next issue of Schmalk magazine: Michaelina Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus (1650) meets modern politics.

Our author Giorgio Vasari writes an allegorical poem connecting Bacchus—the god of intoxication and collective frenzy—to the spectacle of 2025’s world stage.

From divine ecstasy to political delirium, the procession continues.

#Schmalk #MichaelinaWautier #Bacchus #ArtHistory #Culture #Politics #Allegory #Philosophy #CulturalCritique #Postmodernism #VisualCulture

Giambattista Tiepolo
An Allegory with Venus and Time
1754-58
Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
National Gallery, London

One of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...

#Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism

Notes on a solar system: #Ceduna

If magic were in lieu of science there would be magic fiction.

#Allegory
#ScienceFiction

#Allegorical figures of #plenty: #Flora,# Ceres, #Ops (abundance) and #Pales (goddess of shepherds, here described as rustica cum caseo - with cheese!) All playing #cornetti

To the right, the #elemental figures of Ignis (fire) and Aer (air) - the other two #elements are on the following page.

From the #16thCentury #pageantbook showing the 8 #pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.

#earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern @earlymodern #cheese #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #cornet #cornetto #cornett #allegory #mythology #latin

Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
(Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.

#otd #onthisdayinhistory #onthisdayinarthistory #arcimboldo #allegory #music #musica #tournament #rudolfii #renaissance #mannerist #costume #16thcentury #16thcenturycostume #16thcenturyfashion #allegorical #violadabraccio #violin #fiddle #earlymusic #renaissancemusic #sixteenthcentury #histodon #histodons #earlymodern @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodons @histodon

I came across this little mantra "gem" during a game of Bejeweled in "Zen" mode. It says, "My beliefs create my reality." This truth is foundational to nearly every episode of my podcast and is basic to understanding your own existence. Spiritual But Not Religious Episode 2 illustrates it pretty well. Check it out if you've got about 4 minutes! https://bit.ly/Ep2-Allegory

#SpiritualBNR #Plato #allegory #JonathanLivingstonSeagull #beliefs #reality