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Practicing for the choir concert solo! :-) #violin #eastside #choir
But my fight wasn’t over. I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning.
I needed to concentrate on winning the war.
Poems of Hafiz :-) #hafiz #poetry #arabic
Rogier van der Weyden c. 1430s
Exhumation of Saint Hubert (detail)
Jan Wellens de Cock - Temptation of Saint Anthony [1520] by petrus.agricola on Flickr.
Pier Paolo Pasolini on the set of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (1964)
Last summer at the Met. #egypt #museum #met #ancientegypt #sarcophagus
Piazza di Ferrari, Genoa.
While poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Melencolia I. Print of Albrecht Dürer.
There is a fatality about good resolutions- they are always made too late.
Claude Lorrain (1604/1605–1682)
Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
1648
Piazza Castello - Turin, Italy
Artist - Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
Self-portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe
1500
Field of the Cloth of Gold (The Meeting of Francis I and Henry VIII), 1545
All the fields of merit are within one’s own heart. If one seeks from the true mind within, one can be in touch with all that one wishes for.
Artist - Bartolomeo Veneto (1470-1531)
Viewed as an idealized portrait of a courtesan Flora, formerly erroneously as a portrait Lucrezia Borgia
First third of the 16th century, probably ~ 1520s
Claude Lorrain
The Embarking of Ulysses
1646
Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World
Heemskerck painted this homage to ancient art in Rome, where he traveled to study antiquities as well as the work of contemporary masters such as Michelangelo (1475-1564). 16th- or 17th-century Europeans could call on this celebration of ancient ingenuity to validate their own. In 1535, when Heemskerck painted this panorama to complement Cardinal Ridolfo Pio’s famous collection of antiquities, scholars were still disputing which of these monuments were the most marvelous. Heemskerck’s interpretation of the narrative, the abduction of Helen, queen of the Greek city-state Sparta, by Paris, a prince of Troy in Asian Minor, an epic that stretches across the ancient world to Rome itself, was influenced by versions of the story that set events among the marvels of heroic achievements of the ancient world. This luminous panorama is one of the most famous Northern landscapes of the 1500s; its array of ancient marvels and evidence of antiquity’s greatness provided a picture-puzzle for the viewer, challenging him to locate and identify the pieces. In Greek and Roman literature a rainbow was evidence that the messenger goddess Iris, identified by her multicolored mantle, was on her way to deliver a message. In this story, she alerted Helen’s husband Menelaus who was away from home when the abduction took place.
Portrait of Isabella d’Este in her sixties, by Titian. Originally, Titian painted a more aged Isabella, but she was so displeased with it that she made him repaint it so that she appeared forty years younger.
François de Nomé
St. Paul Preaching to the Athenians
These scenes from earliest Christian history are set amid fantasy architecture, mysteriously lit under dark skies. The small scale of the figures makes the buildings seem enormous. De Nomé has imagined ancient streetscapes of Athens and Jerusalem as lined with sculpture and rich architectural ornament. In the scene of St. Paul preaching, a circular pagan temple stands next to a lavish entrance to a synagogue, with a statue of Moses at the left that appears to be adapted from the famous Well of Moses of 1395-1404 by Claus Sluter in Dijon. De Nomé’s mixture of classical and late medieval Gothic elements from his homeland adds to the uniqueness and eccentricity of the compositions. The small size of the copper plates and the complexity of the compositions call attention to the artist’s virtuosity and skill.
Artist - Jean Fouquet (1420–1480)
Portrait of Charles VII
Circa 1445 to 1450
Oil on panel
The Wedding of the Duke of Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine, 1581
The painting depicts the wedding ball of the Duke of Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine, in Paris on 24 September 1581. Joyeuse was the favourite of King Henry III of France, and Marguerite was the sister of Henry’s wife, Queen Louise of Lorraine. According to the description of this picture in the 1988 catalogue of the Armada Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, the newlyweds are depicted in the centre; to the left sits Henry III beside Catherine de’ Medici and his wife, Queen Louise; behind them stand the dukes of Guise, Mayenne, and d’ Epernon (Armada, London: Penguin, 1988, ISBN 0140103015).
Edward IV York (1442-1483)
Circa 1520, posthumous portrait from original circa 1470-1475