August 2010
9 posts
July 2010
8 posts
June 2010
4 posts
May 2010
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April 2010
17 posts
In the current parliament, there are five Sinn...
Isn’t that a little pointless?
March 2010
18 posts
Michel Onfray on The Body of the Dead Christ in...
Art historians don’t know what place Holbein had in mind for his The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb. A predella for an altarpiece? A free-standing work? A piece made to fit in a sepulchral niche? But the fact remains that the painting’s highly unusual dimensions (30.5W200 cm) make it a unique object in the history of iconography. In my eyes at least, because entering this...