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'William Penn’s Treaty With The Indians'.

Benjamin West, 1771-2.

The following notes & quotes were taken and transcribed from Andrew Graham Dixon’s ‘Art of America’, episode 1.

The official history of colonised America [in the 18th & 19th century] would be a selectively edited account that glorified the building of gleaming new buildings in cities like Philadelphia, but it conveniently ignored the grim reality of how it was actually done. One of the functions of art in America then was to be a part of a cover-up, and a chief cover-up artist was a painter called Benjamin West.

West was a Quaker, born in Pennsylvania and America’s first internationally famous artist. ‘William Penn’s Treaty With The Indians’ was one of his most celebrated works, yet it also “pulses with the energy of a dark secret”. The painting was created to frame the history of Pennsylvania and the settlement of its capital city Philadelphia, “to frame it as orderly, dignified, just, compassionate and tolerant…"

West said that the painting depicts "the civilisation of the savage". On the left hand side of the group is William Penn, founder of Philadelphia presenting the Indians with a treaty. However, taking centre stage is a bolt of white cloth held by a generic figure of a trader, “an image that exactly recalls the adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ” and representing the notion that “the god of free trade transformed noble savages into civilised men, effortlessly absorbing them into the republic, a sanitised version of American history". The painting soon became the classic image of ‘the bloodless colonisation of America’ …. but it is propaganda, a blatant lie.

William Penn may indeed have looked kindly on the local tribes, but this painting was commissioned* some 50 years after his death, by which time the colonists and native Indians were locked in a bitter war. This was a war marked, on the British side, by all kinds of appalling skulduggery. On one occasion in 1763 during supposed negotiations for peace, the British representatives handed to the Indians a pile of blankets that they’d taken from their own small pox hospital. This was an early example of germ warfare and proved horribly effective. It certainly gives a really unpleasant twist, an ironic twist, to that bolt of white cloth in the centre of West’s painting.

The painting’s Wikipedia page says it was commissioned by Thomas Penn - William Penn’s son - in 1770 or 1771. Also mentioned is the speculation by some historians that Penn Jr. may have fraudulently created an agreement with a Native American tribe regarding territory and then forced them to vacate.

ADD INFO RE THE TREATY & WILLIAM PENN.

#Benjamin West #William Penn #Thomas Penn #Native American #germ warfare #biological warfare #colonisation #art #Andrew Graham Dixon #small pox

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whitestnoise · 1 year

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"At first sight everything about this space seems 100% islamic. Look at that fantastic elaborate arch, look at those beautiful shapes, like flames cut from stone. But everything here isn't quite as it seems, because that writing, it's not arabic, it's hebrew. This isn't a mosque, it's a synagogue.

Nowadays we tend to think of these two great religions Judaism and Islam as naturally opposed to one another. But this space is a reminder that it wasn't always so, that here in Cordoba once upon a time, Jews and Muslims lived not as enemies but as brothers. So I think this small unassuming space actually contains rather a large lesson for the modern world."

BBC The Art of Spain: The Moorish South

#the art of spain #cordoba synagogue #andrew graham dixon #art history #tvedit #(mine)

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historyfagjoshi · 1 month

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Andrew Graham-Dixon is the most unashamedly coomerish straight man art historian who has ever lived and I need someone to publicly call him out on it at least once because I’m tired of seeing his weird fuckin’ pervert face everywhere I turn

#not art #andrew graham dixon

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molt3ngold · 3 months

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homerent11 · 3 months

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scansfrommagazinesandbooks · 27 days

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#william shakespeare #williamshakespeare #bbc history #bbc history magazine #andrew graham-dixon #andrewgrahamdixon

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morgan--reads · 7 months

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Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane - Andrew Graham-Dixon

Summary: A biography of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Quote: “Caravaggio was putting his own memories and emotions at the heart of his work. Whatever he set out to paint—the death of a martyr, the infancy of Christ or his resurrection—He always ended up painting himself.”

My rating: 4.0/5.0 Goodreads: 4.13/5.0

Review: A rich and beautiful biography that does justice to the artist, attempting to pick out the events of his life without ever claiming a true intimacy with him. Caravaggio’s life is certainly interesting—full of violence and disruption—but Graham-Dixon moves beyond the facts (certain or otherwise) to use his biography as a framework for discussing the artist’s work. The analysis of the paintings is done with deep observation and insight. I highly recommend the physical copy of the book, which has full-color pictures of almost every painting discussed, adding greatly to the reading experience.

#caravaggio #andrew graham-dixon #book review #book recommendation #biography #art history

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veryslowreader · 8 months

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Art: The Definitive Visual Guide by Andrew Graham-Dixon

You: "Joe Takes a Holiday"

#Art #Andrew Graham-Dixon #You #charlotte ritchie

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ivovynckier · 1 year

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The Elgin marbles stay in the British Museum (London)?

Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon has made an in-depth documentary about them for the BBC.

#elgin marbles #lord elgin #parthenon #athens #greece #greek #andrew graham-dixon #art history #architecutre #statues #history #art #ancient greece #documentary #bbc #Youtube #british museum #sculpture #acropolis

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itmocca · 2 years

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The High Art of the Low Countries episode 2

Andrew Graham-Dixon examines how a period of economic boom driven by a burgeoning and secular middle class led to the Dutch golden age of the 17th century. #art #arthistory

The High Art of the Low Countries episode 2: Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at how the seemingly peaceful countries of Holland and Belgium – famous for their tulips and windmills, mussels and chips – were in fact forged in a crucible of conflict and division. He examines how a period of economic boom driven for the first time by a burgeoning and secular middle class led to the Dutch golden age of the…

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#Andrew Graham-Dixon #art #art history #Rembrandt #Renaissance Flanders #Vermeer

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bked0n-lorazepam · 28 days

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My Requests are open!

Hi guys, I know it's been a while, but I'm back, and with new people who I'll be happy to write for you; here's my list!

The Walking Dead:

Rick Grimes, Carl Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Negan Smith, Glenn Rhee, Maggie Rhee, Enid Rhee, Michonne, Rosita, Simon, Abraham, Carol, Jesus "Paul", Shane, Sasha, Dwight, Beth

House MD:

Gregory House, Lisa Cuddy, James Wilson, Allison Cameron, Robert Chase, Eric Foreman, "Thirteen"

CreepyPasta:

Jeff The Killer, Toby Rogers, BEN Drowned, Eyeless Jack, Laughing Jack, Jane The Killer, Nina The Killer, Hoodie, Masky, Liu, Sally

Slashers/Creepos:

Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, Chucky/Charles Lee Ray, Brahms Heelshire, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, BeetleJuice

Criminal Minds:

Aaron Hotchner, Emily Prentiss, Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, Elle Greenaway, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, Penelope Garcia, Tara Lewis, Cat Adams, George Foyet

White Collar:

Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey, Alex Hunter, Diana Berrigan, Lauren Cruz, Clinton Jones

Hannibal NBC:

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Freddie Lounds

Marvel Universe:

Loki Laufeyson, Mobius Mobius, Thor Odinson, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfied, and Tom Holland), MJ Watson, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton, Prince T'Challa, Princess Shuri, Okoye, Carol Danvers, Gamora, Peter Quill, Nebula

IT (2017 and 2019):

Patrick Hockstetter, Henry Bowers, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Mike Hanlon, Beverly Marsh, Stanley Uris, Pennywise

Stranger Things:

Eleven, Mike Wheeler, Steve Harrington, Joyce Byers, Jonathon Byers, Jim Hopper, Max Mayfield, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Karen Wheeler, Dr. Brenner, Argyle, Billy Hargrove

Once Upon a Time:

Rumplestiltskin, Emma Swan, Prince Charming, Snow White, Regina Mills, Henry Mills, Killian Jones, Baelfire, Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Belle, August/Pinocchio, Ruby/Red, Zelena

Good Omens:

Crowley, Aziraphale, Gabriel, Anathema Device, Newton "Newt" Pulsifer, Beelzebub, Muriel

Avatar:

Jake Sully, Neytiri, Kiri (No smut), Lo'ak (No smut), Neteyam (No smut)

And that's it so far! I'll add more as I go, I swear <3

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tommykane · 3 months

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I’ve been reading a biography of the Italian painter, Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon. My obsession with his work has grown since seeing several of his paintings in Roman churches recently. I happened to be up to the part in his life where he was working on his final two paintings before his untimely death. I was engrossed in this chapter as I was on the subway heading to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to draw. The Museum actually owns the second to last painting he did in its permanent collection. So, there I was standing in front of it. Funny how that happens in life sometimes. After spending time with the piece titled, “The Denial of Saint Peter,” I went off to draw statues in the Met. On a side note, Caravaggio never did any drawings in his life.

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byneddiedingo · 10 months

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Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks. Screenplay: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, based on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Art direction: Robert Peterson. Film editing: Viola Lawrence. Music: George Antheil.

The "lonely place" is Hollywood, where Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a screenwriter with a barely held-in-check violent streak. This celebrated movie contains one of Bogart's best performances, though it looks and feels like the low-budget production it was. Bogart's own company, Santana, produced it for release through Columbia, instead of Bogart's employer, Warner Bros., which may explain why, apart from Bogart and Gloria Grahame, the supporting cast is so unfamiliar: The best-known face among them is Frank Lovejoy, who plays Bogart's old army buddy, now a police detective. In a Lonely Place seems to be set in a different Hollywood from the one seen in the year's other great noir melodrama, Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. There are no movie star cameos and glitzy settings in the Bogart film. What this one has going for it, however, is a haunting, off-beat quality, along with some surprising heat generated between Bogart and Grahame, who plays Laurel Gray, a would-be movie actress with an intriguing, only partly glimpsed past that hints at a sapphic subtext. She has, for example, a rather bullying masseuse (Ruth Gillette), who seems to be a figure out of this past. In fact, the whole film is made up of enigmatic figures, including Steele's closest friends, his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), and an aging alcoholic actor, Charlie Waterman (Robert Warwick). Both of them stick with Steele despite his tendency to fly off the handle: He insults and at one point even slugs the agent, while at another he defends the actor with his fists against an insult. Though the central plot has to do with Steele's being suspected of murdering a hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) he brought to his apartment to tell him the plot of a novel he's supposed to adapt, the film is less a murder mystery than a study of a damaged man and his inability to overcome whatever made him that way. And despite the usual tendency of Hollywood films to end with a resolution by tying up loose ends, In a Lonely Place leaves its characters as tensely enigmatic as they were at the start -- perhaps even more so.

#In a Lonely Place #Nicholas Ray #Gloria Grahame #Humphrey Bogart

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emma-cantmakeuphermind · 1 year

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Who and What I Write For!!!

If a Fandom/Character is Bolded, that means requests for them are Open. If it is not bolded, they are closed. Thank you!

Movies

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Hermione Granger

George Weasley

Fred Weasley

Cedric Diggory

Seamus Finnigan

Draco Malfoy

Oliver Wood

Remus Lupin (Marauders Era)

James Potter (Marauders Era)

Sirius Black (Marauders Era)

Regulus Black (Marauders Era)

Lily Evans (Marauders Era)

Marlene McKinnon (Marauders Era)

Mary MacDonald (Marauders Era)

Fear Street

Simon Kalivoda

Kate Schmidt

Tommy Slater

Nightwing Killer

Ziggy Berman

Nick Goode

Solomon Goode

Mad Thomas

IT

Richie Tozier (young and old)

Bill Denbrough (young and old)

Stanley Uris (young and old)

Ben Hanscom (young and old)

Eddie Kaspbrak (young)

Beverly Marsh (young)

Mike Hanlon (young)

Marvel

Peter Parker (MCU)

Peter Parker (TASM)

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Steve Rogers

Bucky Barnes

Wanda Maximoff

Natasha Romanoff

Sam Wilson

Bruce Banner

Tony Stark

Scott Lang

Scream

Sidney Prescott

Billy Loomis

Stu Macher

Randy Meeks

Dewey Riley

Tatum Riley

Derek Feldman

Mickey Altieri

Roman Bridger

Kirby Reed

Charlie Walker

Tara Carpenter

Wes Hicks

Chad Martin-Meeks

Mindy Martin-Meeks

Richie Kirsch

Amber Freeman

Anika Kayoko

Ethan Landry

Back to the Future

Marty McFly

George Mcfly

The Breakfast Club

Andrew Clark

Brian Johnson

John Bender

Claire Standish

Allison Reynolds

Stand By Me

Teddy Duchamp

Chris Chambers

Dead Poets Society

Neil Perry

Charlie Dalton

Todd Anderson

Knox Overstreet

Steven Meeks

Gerard Pitts

Richard Cameron

Chris Noel

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Bill Preston Esquire

Ted Logan

Billy The Kid

The Hunger Games

Peeta Mellark

Finnick Odair

Johanna Mason

Cato

Marvel

TV Shows

The Walking Dead

Rick Grimes

Daryl Dixon

Carl Grimes

Glenn Rhee

Alden

Negan Smith

Rosita Espinosa

Tara Chambler

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Mike Wheeler

Dustin Henderson

Lucas Sinclair

Max Mayfield

Robin Buckley

Jonathan Byers

Billy Hargrove

Ginny and Georgia

Marcus Baker

Abby Littman

Hunter Chen

Shameless

Lip Gallagher

Carl Gallagher

Kevin

V

Svetlana

Jimmy

Video Games

Bully

Jimmy Hopkins

Gary Smith

Petey Kowalski

The Last of Us

Joel Miller

Ellie Williams

Abby Anderson

Jesse

Dina

Red Dead Redemption

Arthur Morgan

John Marston

Durch van der Linde (1899)

Jack Marston (1911 and 1914)

Sean Macguire

Karen Jones

Charles Smith

Javier Escuella

Detroit: Become Human

Connor

Markus

Simon/Daniel/PL600

Rupert/WB200

Life Is Strange

Chloe Price (specifically BTS)

Nathan Prescott

Warren Graham

Sean Diaz

Daniel Diaz (older obvi)

Steph Gingrich

Ryan Lucan

Hogwarts Legacy

Sebastian Sallow

Ominis Gaunt

Gareth Weasley

Leander Prewett

TellTale’s The Walking Dead

Kenny

Clementine

Luke

Javier

Gabe

Mitch

Louis

Marlon

James

Other

Miscellaneous 80s Characters

Edgar Frog

Allen Frog

Sam Emerson

Johnny Cade

Ponyboy Curtis

Sodapop Curtis

Dally Winston

Ferris Bueller

Egon Spengler

Peter Venkman

Alex P. Keaton

Miscellaneous Non-80s Characters

Harley Quinn

Peter Kavinsky

Donnie Darko

Detective David Loki

Homer Hickam

Beck Oliver

Jade West

Rodrick Heffley

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beccanimes · 11 months

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request?

hi guys i’m opening request for these following fandoms and the people:

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon 1

Rick Grimes 1

Negan Smith

Glenn Rhee

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

Castiel

Jack Kline

Lucifer

Gabriel

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Derick Morgan

JJ

Arron Hotchner

Emily Prentiss

Penelope Garcia

Luke Alvez

Alex Blake

The Vampire Dairies

Damon Salvatore

Stefan Salvatore

Kai Parker

The Originals

Klaus Mikaelson (Both TVD or TO)

Elijah Mikaelson (TVD or TO)

Marcel Gerard

Rebekah Mikaelson (TVD or TO)

Divina Claire

Kol Mikaleson (TVD or TO)

Marvel

Steve Rogers

Thor

Natasha

Clint Barton

Peter Parker (Tom Holland

Perter Parker (Tobey Mcguire)

Peter parker (Andrew Garfeild)

Loki

Tony Stark

Buck Barnes

Wanda Maximoff

Stephen Strange

Vison

Harry potter/ Fantasic Beast

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Hermione Granger

Draco Malfoy

Siruis Black (harry potter and maruduer era)

Seamus Finnigan

Cedric Diggory 1

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Remus Lupin

Newt Scamander

Tina Goldstein

Theseus Scamander

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Johnathan Byers

Nancy Wheeler

Robin Buckley

Billy Hargrove

Eddie Munson

Alexei

OUAT

Regina Mills

Emma Swan

Charming

Snow white

Killian Jones

Belle

Graham

Neil Cassidy/ Baelfire

Robin Hood

Ruby Lucas

Tilly

Mulan

Felix

Margot

Jefferson

August/ Pinocchio

Chicago Med

Will Halstead

Connor Rhodes

Ethan Choi

Crockett Marcel

April Sexton

Natalie Manning

Chicago Fire

Mathew Casey

Kelly Severide

Joe Cruz

Otis

Peter Mills

Stella Kidd

Gabby Dawson

Chicago PD

Jay Halstead

Adam Ruzek

Antonio Dawson

Sean Román

Greg “Mouse” Gerwitz

Erin Lindsey

Kim Burguss

Chicago One

Jay Halstead and Will Halstead x sibling

Kelly Severide x Platonic best friend

Kelly Severide x Sibling reader

Hermann x child reader

Gabby and Antonio x sibling reader

Hogwarts legacy

Ominis Gaunt

Sebastian Sallow

Garreth Weasley

#twd #the walking dead #supernatural #criminal minds #vampire diaries #the originals #marvel #harry potter #fantastic beats and where to find them #stanger things #ouat #hogwarts legacy

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kwebtv · 1 year

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Amerika - ABC - February 15 - 22, 1987

Miniseries / Drama (7 episodes)

Running Time: 870 minutes

Stars:

Kris Kristofferson as Devin Milford

Robert Urich as Peter Bradford

Wendy Hughes as Marion Andrews

Sam Neill as Colonel Andrei Denisov

Cindy Pickett as Amanda Bradford

Dorian Harewood as Jeffrey Wyman

Armin Mueller-Stahl as General Petya Samanov

Richard Bradford as Ward Milford

Ivan Dixon as Dr. Alan Drummond

Marcel Hillaire as Dieter Heinlander

Ford Rainey as Will Milford

Graham Beckel as Clayton Cullen

Reiner Schöne as Major Helmut Gurtman

Mariel Hemingway as Kimberly Ballard

Christine Lahti as Alethea Milford

Lara Flynn Boyle as Jackie Bradford

#Amerika #TV #Miniseries #Drama #ABC #1980's #Kris Kristofferson #Robert Urich #Wendy Hughes #Sam Neill #Cindy Pickett #Christine Lahti #Mariel Hemingway

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