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Raphael's School of Athens: A Renaissance Facebook?, Sep 4, 2006 - 10:54
In this lavishly illustrated article, Silenos Socrates and Dionysia Xanthippos explore both the Classical and Renaissance backgrounds of this famous painting: the Greek philosophers, thinkers and scientists represented, and the contemporary Renaissance figures that Raphael used to represent & impersonate them. Result: a sort of \"Renaissance Facebook\" full of love, hate, war, betrayal, rumor, intrigue, and murder.
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Brancusi on Men and Women: Take the Tate Test?, Aug 28, 2006 - 21:17
In further pursuit of the essence of Brancusi\'s modernist sculpture, DIonysia invites you to take the Tate\'s test of your responses to two of his sculptures of men and women. Or whatever....
The Sun God in his Dragon Boat, Jul 30, 2006 - 16:15
Featuring two Mesopotamian cylinder seals, Sin Assurbanipal shows how the sun god, brother of the fertility goddess Inanna/Ishtar, travels in a reed boat made of the defeated dragon of chaos.
Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo, Jul 20, 2006 - 23:36
Raina Maria Rilke\'s famous poem and the ancient torso in the Louvre that inspired it.
Dedicated to Helia Lupens
Four Gods Greet the Rising Sun God, Jul 1, 2006 - 16:59
On a famous cylinder seal from ancient Mesopotamia, Sin Assurbanipal shows us how to identify the major gods who greet the sun god as he rises from the Underworld.
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