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C. W Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853)
Wearing a ruff.
"The world is but a Schoole of inquisition" Montaigne (Florio, III, 8, 928)
Udsigt gennem tre buer i Colosseums tredje stokværk (c. 1816) View Through Three Arches
C. W Eckersberg (2 January 1783 – 22 July 1853)
Interpretation
I find this Danish golden-age painting by Eckersberg a good visual metaphor for interpreting literature: classical Rome stretches out beyond the arches and thunder is brewing in the sky. We should probably count ourselves fortunate did we possess or command just three modes of understanding as we engage a literary text.
Michel de Montaigne
Wearing a ruff.
Ruffs and fardingales?
"Must we throw aside the pictures of our ancestors because of their ruffs and fardingales?"
Great question by Hume: Of the Standards of Taste (in Art and Its Significance, ed. Stephen David Ross, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 90)
A ruff and a fardingale were 16th century dress fashions, long since gone out of fashion.
Great question by Hume: Of the Standards of Taste (in Art and Its Significance, ed. Stephen David Ross, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 90)
A ruff and a fardingale were 16th century dress fashions, long since gone out of fashion.
Just to disclaim
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Thank you! Now please read on...
KA
Thank you! Now please read on...
KA
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