Horace and His Art of Enjoyment

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Brueghel: his art and his syndrome

The exhibition is a fascinating journey into the Golden Age of Flemish Paintings of the seventeenth century, in a search for the visionary genius of as many as five generations of artists. They are able to embody as one, like as nobody before or after them, the style and trends of more than a century of history of art. While the Italian Renaissance focuses attention on the human figure’s noble ...

The Expression of the Divine Order Through the Art of Sculpture in the Greek Art Religion (According to Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art and his Phenomenology of Spirit)

The art of Greek sculpture is the most complete and appropriate visual form of expression of the divine in the Greek art religion and similar types in the earlier and later religions. In Greek sculpture, form and content are in balance and interact with each other. The Spirit and the material have no dominion over one another. The spirit (divine) recognizes as its proper home the human body, an...

Jesus, His Body and Face in Art

During the special showing of the Holy Shroud at Turin in Spring 2010, an art exhibit at the Venaria Reale – the Savoy hunting palace just outside the city – will focus on Western artists’ interest in the body of Christ as subject. With works of painting and sculpture from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period (and some earlier pieces), the exhibit will parallel the religious event, sheddi...

Horace Barlow

Horace Barlow is retired Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He graduated in Medicine at Cambridge in 1947 and stayed there doing research in vision until 1964. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, staying there until 1973 when he returned to Cambridge. His main interest has always been in vision, ...