Tag: Renaissance art
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Evil is simply Good tortured by its own thirst
I suppose it shouldn’t be a complete surprise that ugliness came to symbolize vice -at least in Renaissance Art. And for some people, perhaps there’s something a bit Schadenfreudish in it: that those people whose very appearance revolts them are receiving their imagined just rewards, and that, on the other hand, beauty should not be…
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Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall.
There are times when it is apparent that I have lived a rather cossetted life; when I realize I have been coddled in one gender, and misunderstood the other; when what I assumed was ‘common-sense’, was actually ‘male-sense’ -and not even widely shared, at that. But, I suppose that what we learn from the dark…
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