COMPLEX NUDES IN TWISTED POSES – Cornelis Van Haarlem and the Mannerist School

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During the Eighty Years' War, he loses contact with his parents, and a painter - Pieter Pietersz - has become…

THE RESTLESS RENAISSANCE OF LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER – Altarpieces, court portraits and Protestant Reformers, along a innumerable pictures of women

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He is the artist who had created an artistic workshop in Wittenberg, introducing important changes in the pictorial landscape of…

MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / PARIS – Lucas Cranach The Elder: Three Graces

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, was friends with all of the big hitters of his Renaissance Germany: painter Albrecht Durer, reformist…

MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / AMSTERDAM – Cornelis van Haarlem: Bathsheba at her bath

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Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in The Netherlands,…

THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY – Poetry, by Gerbrand Bredero

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THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY O ripe bosom white that steadily before mine eyes, so dearly drifts, like the clear…

THE SHIP OF FOOLS – Introduction, by Sebastian Brant

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THE SHIP OF FOOLS, INTRODUCTION Knowledge of trouth, prudence, and iust symplicite hath vs clene left. For we set of…

MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / MILAN – Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper

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"The Last Supper" is a mural painted on plaster, in tempera, chalk, glue and pitch. In Milan, around 1495, Leonardo…

I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF – Poetry, by Vittoria Colonna

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I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF I live upon this wretched solitary cliff, like a bird of sorrow that…

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