“Fate leads the willing, but the unwilling drags.”

Francois Rabelais

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Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks.  Paris

 

          EUROPEAN ART

PRINCIPLE OF classical ARTISTIC composition

 

1.  LEONARDO DA VINCI, THE LAST SUPPER,

2.  LEONARDO DA VINCI, THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS

3.  OSCULATION BY INVERSION OF TANGENTS

4.  RAPHAEL SANZIO,  THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS AND THE DISPUTE, PART I

5.  RAPHAEL SANZIO,  THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS AND THE  DISPUTE, PART II

6.  RAPHAEL, THE CATENARY-TRACTRIX PRINCIPLE OF THE TRANSFIGURATION

7.  PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA, THE RESURRECTION

8.  ILYA REPIN AND THE IRONIC RANGE OF THE  NOOSPHERE

10.  IVAN KONSTANTINOVICH AIVAZOVSKY

 

 

1. THE CURVATURE OF THE PARTHENON, PART I

2. THE CURVATURE OF THE PARTHENON, PART II

3.              THE HISTORICAL TRUTH BEHIND THE  AMBASSADORS OF HOLBEIN

4.              REMBRANDT’S THE NIGHT WATCH

5.              A GLANCE OUT OF REMBRANDT’S SELF-PORTRAITS

6.              ROBERT CAMPIN’S MERODE ALTARPIECE

7. VELASQUEZ’S LAS MENINAS           

8. GUSTAVE DORÉ ON THE SUBLIME

9. AUGUSTE RODIN’S THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS
AND THE BLACK DEATH POLICY OF THE ENGLISH

10. MAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD: THE CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

11. THE TEAR DROP OF FORGIVENESS

12. REMBRANDT, THE DENIAL OF PETER

1.     LYDIAN SINGULARITIES OF GALACTIC THINKING

2.    THE TRUTH ABOUT BEETHOVEN’S SO-CALLED “MOONLIGHT SONATA”

3. AN ELECTRODYNAMIC MUSICAL TORUS

4. ON THE SUBJECT OF A PERFORMATIVE ARTISTIC COMPOSITION

5. THE AXIOMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LYDIAN PRINCIPLE

 

  BOOK 1: PLASTIC ART

  BOOK 3: MUSIC

BOOK 2: PLASTIC ART

Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait

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Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, London

BOOK 4: LITERATURE, CINEMA, DRAMA, AND POETRY

1.  OVID’S METAMORPHOSES AND TIME REVERSAL

2.  THE DISAPEARING FOOTPRINTS OF A POETIC SPIRIT

3.  THE RABELAISIAN METHOD OF AXIOM BUSTING

 

4.  SCHILLER’S ‘THE MAID OF ORLEANS’ A NEW APPROACH

                 TO THE SCIENCE OF EPISTEMOLOGY

5.  AESCHYLUS’ ‘THE EUMENIDES’

6. TWO SHAKESPEARE SONNETS ON THE SUBJECT OF TIME REVERSAL

The ironic nature of the pleasure/pain principle.