Word: parnassus
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...crosshatch paintings and linear ones. The grammar of his compositions was always explicit but, at the same time, often surprising. He loved ruins, ideal scenery, viaducts, pyramids and everything that seemed both ancient and vulnerable: the stability of the pyramidal mountain in Ad Parnassum, 1932 (which translates as "To Parnassus," the mythical mountain of Apollo and the Muses), is decidedly undermined by being constructed from a faux mosaic of minuscule tiles of color...
...Expense Return Return Ratio Calvert World Values Intl. Equity C -5.21 28.82 2.91 Citizens Index -4.59 27.49 1.58 Domini Social Equity -5.80 22.63 .98 IPS Millennium 14.71 118.80 1.40 Neuberger Berman Socially Resp -5.22 7.04 1.10 Parnassus 11.49 47.74 1.10 SOURCE: MORNINGSTAR...
...those in the court, some of Dosso's images must have been read as comments on the duke's relaxations. Jupiter, Mercury, and Virtue, circa 1523-24, is Dosso's praise of painting. He translates it to Parnassus, where the god Jupiter sits before a canvas, his administrative thunderbolt laid aside at his feet. Jupiter is painting butterflies--a divine hobbyist. On the right is a figure of Virtue, who has come to complain about the indignities she has had to suffer in the world below. Between them sits Mercury, a finger to his lips, telling her, in effect...
Hunter Thompson launched himself at Parnassus much as he did at everything else, with guns blazing, a bulletproof heart and unflagging dead aim. Yet if the first dirty secret of the 350 or so youthful letters collected in The Proud Highway (Villard; 683 pages.; $29.95) is that the Unabomber of contemporary American letters was writing like a paranoid madman even in his teens, the second is that he was doing so because he was a well-read and ambitious man determined to claim his place in literary history. Meticulously keeping carbons of all his 20,000 letters, and taking himself...
...works such as Summer, Winter and particularly The Triumph of Painting on Parnassus, Testa depicts the virtue and worthiness of both artistry and of the outsider artist, like himself, who will not live the life of worldly pleasures. And his preoccupation with the macabre in earlier works, depicting the death of children and the plague, shows Testa's concern with the encroaching effects of realism as both an artistic style and as a burden to his own unhappy life...