The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a
Lucian perhaps, and some others; and yet they seem to be more than they are; for that all that impugn a received religion, or superstition, are by the adverse part branded with the name of atheists.
Come, thou that hast inspired thy Aristophanes, thy
Lucian, thy Cervantes, thy Rabelais, thy Moliere, thy Shakespear, thy Swift, thy Marivaux, fill my pages with humour; till mankind learn the good-nature to laugh only at the follies of others, and the humility to grieve at their own.
The Lunarians have been described by
Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement.
With a solid collection of paintings currently attracting lots of attention on view at the swank Upper East Side townhouse Acquavella Galleries, and an exhibition of mainly self-portraits coming this October to the Royal Academy in London, (which, if it were up to me, would be titled: "Me, Myself, and Everything They Say About Me"), it is time for me to say everything I think about the despicable genius,
Lucian Freud.
Lucian Freud's captivating Landscape with Birds (1940; Fig.
Lucian Boldea, currently Senior Vice President, Additives & Functional Products, will become an Executive Vice President and assume leadership of Chemical Intermediates in addition to his current responsibilities.
A
LUCIAN Freud artwork that lay hidden beneath another painting for 69 years has sold for PS30,000.
Lucian Smith's parents allowed him to have the cut during Easter hoping it would grow back by term time.
Hybridity in the works of
Lucian takes on many forms; his creation of the seriocomic genre is itself defined as a hybrid (Luc.
It was here that British painter
Lucian Freud lived during the 1940s, creating several notable artworks.