Blog#92: Renaissance Soup
Part One
'Masterpieces of Renaissance Painting'; 'The Italian Renaissance'; 'The High Renaissance and Mannerism'; 'History of Italian Renaissance Art' (Frederick Hartt, 703 pages); 'The Flowering of the Renaissance'. All are lined up proudly on my bookshelf. All are interesting. Some have beautiful reproductions of . . .
Blog#91: Not Even a Perugino
Part One
A song plays on the 2024 equivalent of the juke box. It's the Doors. 'People Are Strange'. Tell me about it, Jim, tell me about it.
I'm sitting on a slightly hard seat in a cafe bar. This is Sassari, the second most populous place in Sardinia, and they go in for cafe bars big-time here. Restaurants are few and . . .
Blog#90 : What Was the Renaissance Really?
Part One
During most of the 1980s I was a fully paid-up member of the Italian Renaissance fan club. I loved it, especially the paintings. It sustained me during dark times, and provided untold inspiration when needed and while nothing else did.
It started with Botticelli, and then Michelangelo, before reaching its . . .
Video Time....
There are a few things that I might write about, but nothing at the moment. So here's a video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GreQSaCgLIc
The third of the four-part episodes called 'The Great Unknown' has just been released on Ickonic. This most recent one is especially significant for anybody who takes themselves seriously, and . . .
Blog#89: Beyond the Beyond
Part One
In front of me I have a copy of the Lonely Planet guide to Italy. It is a hefty volume, totalling 924 pages; it is the 2006 edition, and has the front and back covers missing.
On the bookshelf reside further Lonely Planet guides, to Amsterdam and to Venice. They, too, are 2006 editions; they, too, have no . . .
Blog#88: The Direct Road to Armageddon
Part One
In the previous blog post I wrote a little about the regime change in the not-so-United Kingdom. About how the demonic nature was now on full display; and how the future really did not look good without serious intervention. All the same, I did not expect the shit to hit the fan so quickly....
It was back in the . . .
Blog#87: The Takeover, Part Two
Part One
"Indeed, goodness is weak, but the power of evil is always great and very dreadful." Bodhicaryavatara of Santideva, 8th century (probably) Buddhist.
OK, fair enough. But, to continue with this enquiry, there remains silence on the biggest of questions: Why? I mean, it's not self-evident that goodness should be . . .
