Masolino.Carnesecchi.altar.St. Julian.right lateral...
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Mantegna.Descent into limbo.1492 (by arthistory390)
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Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg & Carl Borromäus Andreas...
Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg & Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart - Ulysses at the Palace of Circe [1667] (by Gandalf’s Gallery)
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fuckyeahpaganism: Nordravn: Baldur-Blot, Ostsee 01.05.2009 by...
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british-history: The last time a monarch entered the House of...
The last time a monarch entered the House of Commons was on this day in British History, 4 January 1642. King Charles I had competed against Parliament for much of his reign, but tensions escalated during the Long Parliament. Essentially, Charles believed that Puritans, encouraged by five MPs (infamous as the Five Members) had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops’ Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.
In response, Charles entered Parliament and took the speaker’s chair, intent on arresting the Five Members. Upon seeing that they were absent, Charles simply said “I see the birds have flown.” He then turned to William Lenthall, the Speaker of the House, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were. Lenthall fell on his knees and famously replied: “May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.” Lenthall, then, had defied the king and defended the privileges of Parliament.In response, Charles I fled London for Oxford, leaving the capital in the control of Parliament. His attempt to arrest the Five Members had cemented the divide between the two, and was a direct contributing factor to the start of First English Civil War, which began in mid-1642.
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thorsteinulf: William Blake - The Penance of Jane Shore in St...
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"On the island of Sardinia, the word for ‘Friday’ is kenábura, from Latin cena pura ‘pure dinner’. It..."
“On the island of Sardinia, the word for ‘Friday’ is kenábura, from Latin cena pura ‘pure dinner’. It has been suggested that this name refers to the Sabbath meal. Even more interesting is the word kaputanni, which is Sardinian for ‘September’. It is a literal translation of Rosh Hashanah ‘head of the year’. We know that Jews were exiled to Sardinia in the year 19 by the Emperor Tiberius. If these Sardinian words are really the result of that expulsion, it would suggest that a Judeo-Roman type of speech existed during the first century of the Common Era. But none of this evidence is conclusive, and for the moment, all our conclusions must remain tentative.”
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Jochnowitz, G. 1978. Judeo-Romance Languages. In: Paper, H.H. ed. Jewish Languages: Theme and Variations, Proceedings of Regional Conferences of the Association for Jewish Studies Held at The University of Michigan and New York University in March-April 1975. Massachusetts: Association for Jewish Studies.
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ancientart: A few photographs of the site of ancient Babylon...
A few photographs of the site of ancient Babylon (present day Iraq) from the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.
All from the Edwin Newman Album Collection, the first image is titled ‘Babylon’ the second ‘Waters of Babylon’, and the third, ‘Sacred Lion of Babylon’.
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eloybida: Matteo di Giovanni (1430–1495) [+]
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mediumaevum: Many have braved playing Queen Elizabeth I, one of...
Many have braved playing Queen Elizabeth I, one of the most complex and rewarding characters in history and literature.Here are some of the most iconic examples from both movies and TV shows, old and new, male and female.
- The Virgin Queen (1955) Bette Davis
- Orlando (1992) Quentin Crisp
- Shakespeare in Love (1998) Judi Dench
- Blackadder (1986) Miranda Richardson
- Doctor Who (2013) Joanna Page
- Anonymous (2011) Vanessa Redgrave
- Elizabeth I (2005) Helen Mirren
- The Virgin Queen (2006) Anne-Marie Duff
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Cate Blanchett
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demonagerie: The Hague, MMW, 10 A 11, detail of fol. 351v...
The Hague, MMW, 10 A 11, detail of fol. 351v (‘True Religion liberating mankind from the gods: devils falling into hell; Christians praying’). Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Vol. I). Translation from the Latin by Raoul de Presles. Paris; c. 1475 (c.) c. 1478-1480
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abystle: Study to ‘War’, Arnold Böcklin, 1896.
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artgif: Muse, Andrea Mantegna
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androphilia: La Lutte by Lasse Burell, 2013
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La Lutte by Lasse Burell, 2013
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funeral-wreaths: I’ve uploaded a much better image of a sheet...
Lewis Carroll, preliminary sketches for 'Alice's Adventures under Ground', c. 1863
Detail of Alice with longer hair
Detail of Alice with shorter hair, among leaves
Photographic print by Lewis Carroll of a drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, taken in October 1863
Alice cramped into the White Rabbit's house, finished illustration in 'Alice's Adventures under Ground'
Arthur Hughes, 'The Lady with the Lilacs', 1863, commissioned by Lewis Carroll in the same year
Alice in the White Rabbit's house, finished illustration in 'Alice's Adventures under Ground'
I’ve uploaded a much better image of a sheet of little sketches by Lewis Carroll than the previous one (turns out my camera is clearer than my scanner). These preliminary drawings for the Alice’s Adventures under Ground manuscript are incredibly rare insights into Carroll’s formative visions of Wonderland. Some of these grotesques and human faces do not appear in the finished manuscript or the later published novel, so they feel like fleeting phantoms from Carroll’s private world of fantasy which tumbled momentarily onto the page, their identities and purposes now lost and unknown.
Of particular interest are the two sketches of Alice in the middle (see details beneath). At the time that Carroll drew these little figures he was frequenting the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, in October 1863. In Carroll’s own words: on October 6, ‘Went over to Mr. Rossetti’s […] looked through a huge volume of drawings, some of which I am to photograph — a great treat, as I had never seen such exquisite drawings before’; then, on October 8, ‘Was at work most of the day photographing drawings of Mr. Rossetti’s.’ One such drawing was a gorgeous portrait in soft pencil of the model Annie Miller from 1860. To my eyes, Rossetti’s treatment of the texture and pattern of Annie’s luxuriant wavy hair influenced Carroll’s rendering of Alice’s flowing locks in the preliminary drawings and completed illustrations for Alice’s Adventures under Ground — particularly the striking image of her cramped into the White Rabbit’s house.
Finally, within the very same week as visiting Rossetti and making prints of his work, Carroll acquired a painting he had commissioned from Arthur Hughes, another Pre-Raphaelite, earlier that year. The Lady with the Lilacs is a half-length picture of a beautiful young maiden with wavy red hair standing amid a cluster of lilacs, and it hung over Carroll’s mantlepiece in his study at Christ Church College until the end of his life. The similarity of Hughes’s lady and Carroll’s Alice is clear, especially in his drawing of Alice feeling the effects of the magic bottle in the White Rabbit’s house: they share the same head-tilted pose, soft, loose garment and wistful facial expression.
Carroll completed the drawings in the manuscript on 13 September 1864, and in November that year finally presented it to Alice Liddell. The story is, of course, dedicated to her, and yet the Alice we see drawn in the pictures above bears no resemblance to the girl with dark, short straight hair who is often labelled the ‘real Alice' — calling to question whether or not the fictional Alice and the 'real' one are indeed the same.
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magictransistor: Giotto. The Seven Vices: Desperation, Envy,...
Giotto. The Seven Vices: Desperation, Envy, Infidelity, Injustice, Wrath, Inconstancy, Foolishness (top to bottom). Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua. 1306.
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reklamalemi: http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/25746075.asp
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alex-maclean: Desert Golf Course, Las Vegas, NV 2009
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