Thomas More wrote Utopia 500 years ago; London Design Biennale 烏托邦；A Man for All Seasons《良相佐國》

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Thomas More wrote Utopia 500 years ago; London Design Biennale 烏托邦；A Man for All Seasons《良相佐國》

Thomas More - born on 7 February 1478 - humanist scholar, author, and statesman, served Henry VIII as diplomatic envoy and Privy Councillor prior to his election as speaker of the House of Commons in 1523. The chain More wears in this portrait - one of the masterpieces of Hans Holbein the Younger - is an emblem of service to the King: the Tudor Rose is in fact a sign of loyalty to the English royal family. In 1529 More succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor, but three years later he resigned that office over the issue of Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and subsequently he refused to subscribe to the Act of Supremacy making the King head of the Church of England. For this he was convicted of high treason and beheaded. Venerated by the Catholic Church as a martyr, More was beatified in 1886 and canonized in 1935 on the four-hundredth anniversary of his death. Holbein’s sympathy for the man whose guest he was upon first arriving in England is apparent in this portrait. His brilliant rendering of the rich fabrics and adornments make this one of Holbein’s best and most popular paintings. Various versions of the portrait exist, but this - 1527, Frick Collection, New York - is undoubtedly the original. More's gaze is turned to the right, with a severe and attentive expression at the same time, in the classic Holbein style of going to grasp the character of the represented character, in this case his intransigence and severity of judgment - that both will then be fatal to the sovereign.

BBC World Service

‘Though no man has anything, yet they are all rich’: that’s how Thomas More organised his Utopian island society. Could you imagine giving up all possessions for the common good? 

Thomas More's Utopia, The Forum

Celebrating More's radical book and its political influence in the past and present

BBC.CO.UK

A Man for All Seasons
Original film poster by Howard Terpning
Directed by	Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay by	Robert Bolt
Based on	A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

The title reflects playwright Bolt's portrayal of More as the ultimate man of conscience, remaining true to his principles and religion under all circumstances and at all times. Bolt borrowed the title from Robert Whittington, a contemporary of More, who in 1520 wrote of him:

More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And, as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of as sad gravity. A man for all seasons.^[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966_film)

《良相佐國》（英語：A Man for All Seasons）是一部1966年英國傳記電影，敘述16世紀英國亨利八世時代著名大臣湯瑪斯·摩爾的故事。由佛烈·辛尼曼執導，由保羅·史考菲及勞勃·蕭主演。

在1967年的第39屆奧斯卡金像獎中提名8個獎項，更獲得6項大獎，包括最佳影片獎、最佳導演獎、最佳改編劇本、最佳男主角（保羅·史考菲）、最佳攝影和最佳服裝設計獎。

倫敦設計雙年展 台灣國家館被紐約時報style magazine評選為top 5!

對父老鄉親有交代了！

廖小子

倫敦設計雙年展，台灣館『修龍Eatopia』被選為紐約時報雜誌前五名必看展覽！

我們好帥謝謝！

Projects Not to Miss at the London Design Biennale

The inaugural event's theme, Utopia By Design, celebrates the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s novel

NYTIMES.COM|由 SAMANTHA TSE 上傳

Ever since Thomas More wrote Utopia 500 years ago, visionaries from William Morris to Ursula K Leguin have dreamed of ideal worlds. But beneath the fig-leaf of fiction, the results are often bland – or bloody

Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias

Ever since Thomas More wrote Utopia 500 years ago, visionaries from William Morris to Ursula K Le Guin have dreamed of ideal worlds. But beneath the fig-leaf of fiction, the results are often bland – or bloody

THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 TOBIAS JONES 上傳

Sir Thomas More: author of Utopia 烏托邦 was beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the new Church of England; More was canonized 400 years later (1535)



canonization：列入聖品；列入聖人級；宣佈為聖；宣聖；列品：教宗隆重聲明某些足為教會楷模者已升天國，並應接受教會的尊敬、榮耀和讚譽。申 請列品案件首先將候選人之言行、著作、聲譽、奇蹟（殉道者免）等項目交由主教審斷，經調查屬實後，送交聖座，再經專案小組審查，最後由教宗做裁決，宣佈其 為「真福」，可供某地區或某團體敬禮及慶賀。接著可更上一層樓，將此真福者案件送交聖座重新審查，經審查合格（非殉道者需要兩個奇蹟）後，經教宗裁決可宣 佈此真福為「聖人」，可供全球教會敬禮及慶祝。1983年2月7日教宗若望保祿二世頒佈了新的宣聖宗座憲令，聖部法令亦於同日頒佈。參閱 beatification。