The Gaol the Story of Newgate London's Most Notorious Prison by Kelly Grovier

Before looking at these writings, however, it is important to consider something of the historical context in which they were produced. This article will argue that only such a vibrant spirituality will suffice to sustain one in times of persecution. These writings are characterized by confidence in the sovereign providence of God, a thankfulness for both physical and spiritual blessings, reflection upon the sufficiency of Christ, and a certain expectation of a future deliverance and reward. This article will examine the prison writings of one seventeenth-century English Particular Baptist in order to better understand how the persecuted minority of Baptists were able to persevere through their sufferings. As a result a rich body literature was produced that reflects a vibrant spirituality of persecution and suffering for the sake of the gospel. White, the doyen of seventeenth-century English Baptist studies, labeled the years from 1660 to 1688 as “The Era of the Great Persecution.” During this period all Dissenters, including the Baptists, were persecuted. The book also includes beautifully designed features exploring important milestones in the history of color theory from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century.In his chapter on the period in The English Baptists of the Seventeenth Century, B. How might it change our understanding of a well-known masterpiece like Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night to know that the intense yellow moon in that painting was sculpted from clumps of dehydrated urine from cows that were fed nothing but mango leaves? Or that the cobalt blue pigment in Van Gogh's sky shares a material bloodline with the glaze of Ming Dynasty porcelain? Consisting of ten chapters, each presenting a biography of a family of colors, this volume mines a rich vein of pigmentation from prehistoric cave painting to art of the present day. Color is the site of invigorating conflict?a battleground where past and present, influence and originality, and superstition and science merge into meanings that complicate and intensify our appreciation of a given work. Grovier employs the term ?artymology? to suggest that color is a linguistic device, where pigments stand in for syllables in art's language. Knowledge of a pigment and its history can unlock meaning in the works that feature it. In Grovier's telling, a color's connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. In this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments

The Gaol the Story of Newgate London's Most Notorious Prison by Kelly Grovier