Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times

Ok this is one of the marvelous art-deco building at Rockefeller center, which is located in midtown Manhattan . With statues of a pagan god with the world on its shoulders amongst the other Norse gods and overall architecture it kinda makes you wonder. Was the blueprint and overall scheme of thing laid out by some order of a secret society?

This image particulary got me thinking. If you notice the way in which he has his hand, it in a certain position. I've seen this some where before I just can't remember maybe you do.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Someone said this on your site concerning the Lee Lawrie sculpture:

"This image particulary got me thinking. If you notice the way in which he has his hand, it in a certain position. I've seen this some where before I just can't remember maybe you do."

The image is from William Blake's "Ancient of Days," which was the frontispiece of his self-illustrated literary work entitled "Europe: A Prophesy" dating 1794.

Jim S, Art Historian
Milwaukee

Anonymous said...

Urizen has clear similarities with the creature called the Demiurge by Gnostic sects, who is likewise largely derived of the Old Testament god (more specifically, like Blake's Urizen, the demiurge is a radical remodelling of that figure achieved by expanding that figure's original contextual setting, or by removing him to one that is almost completely new). Speculative Freemasonry is another possible source of Blake's imagery for Urizen; Blake was attracted to the Masonic and Druidic speculations of William Stukeley.[citation needed] The compass and other drafting symbols that Blake associates with Urizen borrow from Masonic symbolism for God as the "Great Architect of the Universe".[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urizen