Zheng He and the Chinese Maritime Expeditions
Cet article en FR By launching its « 21st Century Maritime Silk Road », China is reconnecting with a particularly rich naval and maritime past. Its first activities in this field date back, as far as navigation in the China Sea is concerned, to the Zhou dynasty (771-256 BC). (See also myRead More…
Les racines symbolistes des « Killer Games »
Le nombre croissant de massacres commis par des adolescents et jeunes adultes « happés » par les univers persistant véhiculés par des jeux vidéo dont la violence et la perversion ne cessent de croître nous porte à regarder de plus prêt les origines de cette cyberculture et les killer games.Read More…
Karel Vereycken wins major award for his art work
On August 20, 2025, the Contemporary Art Curator Magazine awarded Karel Vereycken with a « COLLECTORS ART PRIZE | ART LEGENDS OF OUR TIME », a prize « awarded every two years through a careful international selection process led by respected curators, museum directors, and critics. » The price is given « only to aRead More…
L’eau au Moyen-Orient, casus belli permanent ou pierre angulaire d’une paix durable?
Le 28 mars 2025, Karel Vereycken, pour l’Institut Schiller, lors d’un colloque organisé par l’Académie de géopolitique de Paris sur l’avenir de la Palestine, retrace les enjeux de l’eau au Proche orient, casus belli permanent ou pierre angulaire d’une paix durable. Dans ce cadre, il présente le Plan Oasis, vasteRead More…
Empathy, sympathy, compassion – Humanity’s cultural heritage, key to world peace
Dieses artikel in gutes Deutsch PDFCet article en français en ligne Empathy, sympathy, compassion – Humanity’s cultural heritage, key to world peace. Speech by Karel Vereycken, painter-engraver, at the Schiller Institute’s international conference on 15 and 16 June 2024. Before talking about World Cultural Heritage, two words about the notionsRead More…
AUDIO – Van Eyck’s theological metaphor in his Madonna in the Cathedral (Berlin)
Karel Vereycken, on June 15, analyzing Jan Van Eyck’s theological metaphor of light in his « Madonna in the Cathedral », at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, Germany. Listento the AUDIO ReadJan Van Eyck, a Flemish Painter using Arab Optics (EN online)Jan van Eyck, la beauté comme prégustation de la sagesse divine (FR en ligne)Read More…
AUDIO – Joachim Patinir and the Homo Viator
Karel Vereycken, commenting Joachim Patinir’s painting « The Rest on the Flight to Egypt » at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, Germany. For more:—Joachim Patinir and the Invention of Landscape Listen to the audio Read:Quinten Matsys and Leonardo — The Dawn of the Age of Laugher and Creativity, (EN online); Квентин Массейс и Леонардо:Read More…
AUDIO – The Culture behind Brueghel’s Proverbs (Berlin)
Karel Vereycken, on June 15, analyzing the rich culture behind Bruegel’s painting The Proverbs, at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, Germany. For more, see articles on this website:—The Antwerp Landjuweel of 1561 that made Art a Weapon for Peace—Quinten Matsys and Leonardo, the dawn of the Age of Laughter and Creativity Listen:to theRead More…
ARTKAREL AUDIO GUIDE — Matsys and the Art of « The Deal » (Berlin)
Comment on Quinten Matsys‘ painting « The Deal » (aka « The Contract ») in the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, Germany. (June 2025) For more on this artist, see my study on Matsys and Leonardo, the dawn of the Age of Laughter and Creativity. Audio: This Audio Read: Quinten Matsys and Leonardo — The DawnRead More…
Shakespeare’s lesson in Economics
Cet article en FR by Karel Vereycken As early as 1913, the very year that a handful of major Anglo-American banks set up the Federal Reserve to prevent that any form of national bank in the US fixes the rules for money and credit, Henry Farnam 1 , an economistRead More…
