I completed my input to the threads I felt obligated to contribute to. It’s time to sign off Lit Net for a bit. I’ve been thinking about what subject to intellectually explore now that I’ll be trying to expand intellectually. I’ve mention how before Lit net I used to select a subject or two and devote a year to it, sort of like a seminar class. And that got me thinking on how I started doing that, and I figured I’d share it with you. When I first entered undergraduate ...
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Updated 10-10-2013 at 08:41 PM by stlukesguild
Spain, like Greece, can claim two great cultures: that of Islamic Spain, and that of the later world power of Catholic Spain of the "Golden Age". Yehuda Halevi or Yehuda ben Shemuel Ha-Levi c. 1075-1141 Medieval Moorish Spain was one of the most fabulous cultures of all history. The Moorish culture in what is today Morocco dates back to the time of the Roman Empire (and perhaps earlier) when they acted as trading partners with Carthage, the independent city-state ...
The Louvre holds the Venus de Milo and the Winged Venus of Samothrace: The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston contains the delicate Aphrodite of Chios, possibly by that greatest of Greek sculptors, Praxiteles: ...
On a recent thread a member admitted that he and his girlfriend were discussing a proposed European trip. She was all for visiting Spain, while he was for Greece, suggesting that Spain had very little in the way of art to offer the tourist. I was unable to let this assertion lie... for the simple reason that my own preferences lie more with Spain than Greece. I think either would be equally fascinating and laden with more than enough art, although I personally would ...
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