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2024-04-25T09:49:41-04:00

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Louis Round Wilson and his Library– Part Two

Last updated on: April 25, 2024 at 9:49 am By Ben Witherington

This is the view from in front of the Admin building looking towards the front of the old library. Notice the top of the bell tower behind it, which looks like this….. and stands across the street from the back of the library. This first shot below shows the central part of the library built while Uncle Louey was the head librarian. He wanted a classic library with marble, and Greek columns, and an oculus, and cathedral ceilings and roof... Read more

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Light and liberty

2024-04-25T09:22:14-04:00

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Louis Round Wilson and his Library– Part One

Last updated on: April 25, 2024 at 9:22 am By Ben Witherington

Louis Round Wilson was born in the mountains of N.C. in Lenoir in 1876. No one could have known he was destined to become the most famous librarian in the whole state in the 20th century, for whom the grand old library at UNC is quite appropriately named. He’s the one that brought that library into modernity. The original building was completed in 1929, the two wings were added in 1952, and an addition to the stacks happened in 1977.... Read more

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Erasmus said 'When I have money I buy books. If anything is leftover I buy food.'

2024-04-25T08:52:42-04:00

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N.C. Art Museum– Part Five

Last updated on: April 25, 2024 at 8:52 am By Ben Witherington

This post could be called odds and ends…. of sorts. Here first is some ancient glassware, including perfume bottles… and a mirror And right around the corner is a collection of mostly small statues by the famous French sculptor, Rodin… His most famous statue was Le Penser— the Thinker…. of which there were many renderings, and here’s a small one…. The one I found most evocative is the statue of Eve, trying to hide her shame…. And finally, there is... Read more

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The Torah of God

2024-04-24T16:16:36-04:00

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N.C. Art Museum– Part Four

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 4:16 pm By Ben Witherington

In some ways the arrangement of materials in the new building seems random. Yes there are some things grouped together, but with one off kinds of paintings one never knows what is around the next corner. For example, I did not expect what came after this Dutch painting of a storm at sea… Followed by a famous painting of Martin Luther and Melanchthon! Followed by a Milanese woman with flowers in her hair…. Which in turn led to a... Read more

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2024-04-24T16:23:05-04:00

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N.C. Art Museum– Part Three

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 4:23 pm By Ben Witherington

There is quite a lot of funerary art from the Roman and Greek antiquity, and related statues as well. For instance here is Herakles/Hercules usually depicted with a club and/or a animal skin from one of the labors he accomplished. Notice how he shows up on this burial box as well… Here’s a very elaborate tomb for an elite Roman man and his wife… In the Republic period and into the first century A.D. Romans practiced cremation and so did... Read more

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Brave Helios

wake up your steeds/Bring the warmth the countryside needs

2024-04-24T15:25:24-04:00

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N.C. Art Museum– Part Two

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 3:25 pm By Ben Witherington

In the last post we focused on paintings mostly with Christian and Biblical themes. A word about the Venetian renaissance which attracted many artists. Some of the art was quite humorous such as this painting….. Here’s a painting of a handsome young John the Baptizer…. Yes there were some paintings from classical settings…. here’s a rather lame attempt to depict a Vestal Virgin in all the wrong clothes…. This is Democritus and Heraclitus painted by a Dutch painter... Read more

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Art for when you are down in the mouth

2024-04-24T13:45:29-04:00

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The new campus of N.C. Art Museum— Part One

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 1:45 pm By Ben Witherington

There is a wide variety of art in the N.C. Museum of Art, which was originally just located in downtown Raleigh, but now has a sprawling campus of several buildings on the west side of the capital city, not far from Chapel Hill. In the following posts I’ll be highlighting some of the things in the new building, like for instance the painting above of Vulcan and his forge, and Cyclops. This is one of two large, major paintings likely... Read more

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so little time

So much art

2024-04-24T10:37:37-04:00

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Beware the Recycled Wolf

Last updated on: April 24, 2024 at 10:37 am By Ben Witherington

The indestructible recycle wolf is on the prowl in Chapel Hill. The theory is it was sent over from Raleigh, and there is a miniature wolfpack cub inside. Read more

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A real howler

2024-04-15T16:42:37-04:00

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‘On Earth as in Heaven’–a Great Compendium

Last updated on: April 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm By Ben Witherington

The Bible of course is a compendium– a book composed of originally separate books, letters etc. This book is also a compendium, curated by Tom Wright’s son Oliver. The book is set up according to the church year (excerpts for Advent, Christmas, Lent Easter etc.) but there are also subject sub-headings like Truth, Spirituality, Beauty etc. The excerpts come from 12 of Tom’s previous more lay and clergy friendly volumes, not his more scholarly or technical books. So, we have... Read more

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Two Wrights make one right

2024-04-15T10:51:50-04:00

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Wright on Scripture

Last updated on: April 15, 2024 at 10:51 am By Ben Witherington

“Scripture, tradition, and reason are not like three different bookshelves, each of which can be ransacked for answers to key questions. Rather Scripture is the bookshelf; tradition is the memory of what people in the house have read and understood (or perhaps misunderstood) from that shelf; and reason is the set of spectacles that people wear in order the maje sense of what they read–though worryingly, the spectacles have varied over time, and there are signs that some readers, using... Read more

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Scripture not human experience is the final authority for the believer

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