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A blog focusing on baroque music and art, alongside contemporary ideals. A Sirnot Ett blog.


View of the Temple of Olympian Zeus from the West - James Robertson




Notre Dame de Paris






Random bits of the British Museum: great bits of marble

Lely Venus
2nd century AD Roman copy of Greek original

Seen in Washington Heights
Wow, deja vu. My family was thinking about moving here recently.

Library of Celsus in Ephesus, modern-day Turkey, built by the Ancient Romans, completed 135 AD

15th century, French
BNF
Français 239: Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
fol. 140r
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458435h/f1.planchecontact.r=Francais+239.langEN
Oh noes, his chaperon fell down!

Sunset in Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy. August 2012

The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest relics of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by Venetian monk Fra Mauro. The circular map is drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter.
My most favourite map :)
Victoria, Iudas mercator pessimus, Tenebrae responsories.
Iudas mercator pessimus osculo petiit Dominum
ille ut agnus innocens non negavit Iudae osculum.
Denariorum numero Christum Iudaeis tradidit.
Melius illi erat si natus non fuisset.“Judas, that vilest merchant, sought a kiss from the Lord,
and he, as an innocent lamb, did not deny Judas the kiss.
For many denarii he handed Jesus over to the Jews;
It would have been better for him that he had not been born.”
Just finished reading the Decameron.
All I have to say is OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG THE LAST STORY WAS JUST AHHHHHHHHHHH-

Giuseppe Archimboldo - “Self-Portrait”
unknown date







“Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a 15th century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed.”

:
“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that when one could have had all the fruits for himself, they said, ‘UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?’ (‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: ‘I am because we are.)
❀ ★☾☮ pure bliss ❂☯✌☀


(Detail) The Return of the Prodigal Son,1773,Pompeo Batoni.
I’m going to make a Marble Hornets blog, which I’ll probably only post to once a month or something.
oui

i rushed it. sorry.
Warning for my followers, this post has nothing to do with Baroque stuff.

Portrait of an Unknown Man, by anonymous, c 1775. Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes.








Rococo, less commonly roccoco, also referred to as “Late Baroque”, is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre. The Rococo developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially that of the Palace of Versailles.
((OOC: Third row, picture on the right: There’s an art piece of Belle depicted that way. I should go off to find it! If I get lucky finding it.))