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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Notes on a solar system: #Ceduna

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

    #Allegory
    #ScienceFiction

  4. #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

  5. 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! bit.ly/Ep2-Allegory

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