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  2. Il Penseroso - Wikipedia

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    Il Penseroso ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to L'Allegro , a vision of poetic mirth .

  3. The Thinker - Wikipedia

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    The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.

  4. Makoto Fujimura - Wikipedia

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    Makoto Fujimara explains kintsugi ceramic art during a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, London, November 2023. Fujimura is an author of several books including Art+Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale U. Press, 2021), [11] Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture (NavPress, 2009), [12] and Culture Care (IVPress, 2020). [13]

  5. Thinker of Hamangia - Wikipedia

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    The recent finding of the "thinking" man seems to argue for the existence of a developed ideology of some type in this period, while it is impossible not to refer us to similar timeless types, such as the Karditsa Thinker of the Neolithic era, Thinker from Yehud of the Middle Bronze Age II, [10] or even to the Pensive Christ in modern times. [11]

  6. Romantic art - Wikipedia

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    Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (1800–02), Musée national de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, Château de Malmaison. In the visual arts, Romanticism first showed itself in landscape painting, where from as early as the 1760s British artists began to turn to wilder landscapes and storms, and Gothic architecture, even if they had to make do with ...

  7. Essay Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The principle of essay poetry was first proposed and initiated by Denny Januar Ali and creatively manifested in 2012 through a book entitled "In the Name of Love." [1] In total, around 100 books essay poetry have been published by Indonesian and foreign poets. [2] [3] Then in 2020, essay poetry officially became a new word in the Official ...

  8. The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton - Wikipedia

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    The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton is an oil painting of 1900 by the American artist Thomas Eakins.It is a depiction of the artist's brother-in-law, Louis N. Kenton (1865-1947), and it has been called "one of Eakins's most memorable portraits". [1]

  9. Decadent movement - Wikipedia

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    Instead, books, poetry, and art itself are seen as the creators of valid new worlds, thus the allegory of decadent Wilde's Dorian Gray being poisoned by a book like a drug. Words and artifice are the vehicles for human creativity, and Huysmans suggests that the illusions of fantasy have their own reality: "The secret lies in knowing how to ...