Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part four)
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
La rivalutazione del gatto giunge con Leonardo da Vinci, che lo definì “un capolavoro” e gli dedicò numerosi studi. Nel famoso “foglio di schizzi” datato 1490, in cui il gatto è raffigurato nei suoi atteggiamenti abituali, nascose ben 73 giochi enigmistici tutt’ora irrisolti. Nell’angolo in basso a destra del foglio, accanto al timbro della Royal
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part three)
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Soon the Fathers of the newborn Church decided to get rid of the Mothers of ancient cults, fearing that they could hide assertive aspirations that could undermine their power. To ensure that charges of idolatry would find greater foundation, Christian theologians established a division between good and evil even in animal world and cat ended
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part two)
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Emperor Augustus loved so much his cat that in his De vita sua called it his companion, his equal and equal to gods. Ancient Roman priests so highly regarded cats to allow them to enter into temples, perhaps for fear of offending Diana, who – as told by Hyginus – had the power to transform
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part one)
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Although the exact date of the beginning of the partnership between man and cat is still vague, recent comparative DNA studies estimated that the first domesticated cats may have been in the area of the Fertile Crescent some 10,000 years ago. Almost a thousand years later, the fascination that the cat had on the man
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
t’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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The Pixel with mustache
Monday, 23 September 2013
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Who is the most famous cat of them all? Part two
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Last but not least among the virtual cats, born by chance and become a VIP (or VIC?) between the web, books and gadgets, is the adorable bungler Simon’s Cat. Turning to reality, from Queen Victoria to Pope Leo XII, from Lenin to Rosa Luxembourg, from Lincoln to Churchill, many cats have become famous through their
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Who is the most famous cat of them all? Part one
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
It’s not easy to talk about famous cats: they are so many. So I decided to treat the subject for ideas, to be deepened if you want. Let’s begin our journey by the most classic, which do not need any comment: Puss in Boots, the Cat and the Fox of Pinocchio, the ominous Cheshire Cat
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The color that makes the difference: the black cat
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Loved and respected as gods, feared and hated as demons. Black cats had over the centuries a troubled life and even today they are not highly regarded by everybody. Sacred to Isis in the ancient Egypt – in case of fire or other emergency that forced to leave the house, according to law and the
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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