A Romanian Book on Bishop Wulfila

source: Erbiceanu family archive

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ulfila.JPG)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I would love to have access to this book, only it is very hard to find it: a book published in Bucharest in 1898, and carrying a pretty long title, Ulfila, Viata si Doctrina lui, sau Starea Crestinismului in Dacia Traiana si

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Mesopotamian Lyre

source: British Museum

(published on Facebook by Veterodoxia)

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Silver lyre; the silver which covers this lyre and its bull's head, and the shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone inlay decoration are ancient, but the frame, the pegs, strings and bridge are modern; the original silver pegs are exhibited separately; the panel on the front of the lyre depicts

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The San Francisco Swedenborgian Church

(published on Facebook by SF Swedenborgian Church)

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One day I will come with my own story about a Swedenborgian church I once discovered. Give me some time, though.


(Church in America)

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Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)

(http://bourbonandpearls.blogspot.com/2011/12/die-feuerzangenbowle.html)

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Okay, before starting the talk over Feuerzangebowle the movie, let's explain a little bit what a Feuerzangenbowle means. It's a traditional German drink, a punch made basically from rum and mulled wine: a rum-soaked sugarloaf is set over a bowl filled with heated dry red wine (mixed

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O Poveste cu Mos Craciun

(click here for the English version)



Povestea a inceput intr-o zi de sambata. Ma dusesem sa vad bradul de Craciun din fata Casei Albe. Ca intotdeauna era inconjurat de trenulete care alergau pe sine, iar copii erau pretutindeni, galagiosi si fericiti.

Evident ca primul gand care mi-a venit in cap a fost sa incerc sa fac un video, numai ca soarele imi juca feste, asa ca filmuletul a iesit

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Praying Knife

left and right views of an etched, engraved and gilded steel knife
ivory, brass and silver handle
unknown maker, Italy, 1500–50

Victoria and Albert Museum

(published on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita)

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Knives with musical notes on the blade, known as notation knives, are extremely rare. This example is etched with notations expressing gratitude for a

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René-Xavier Prinet: Kreutzer Sonata

René-Xavier Prinet: La Sonate à Kreutzer

signed R.X.Prinet (lower right)

oil on canvas

(published on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita)

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Provenance:


Exhibited at Paris (Salon), 1901, Munich, 1901, Stuttgart, 1901



Acquired by Prince Regent of Bavaria in 1901 at L'Art Français Contemporain, L'Union Artistique Wurtembourgeosie de Stuttgart)



Sold

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Prayer in Christmas

(http://www.inspirational-bible-verses.com/prayer-bible-verses.html)

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Yesterday I found in NY Times an op-ed with the name The Moral Animal. It was making a conjunction between evolutionism and religion. I have encountered such opinions also before: that religion appeared at some point in the beginnings of humanity, due to the necessity of primitive

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Leo Monosson

Leo Monosson (1897-1967)

(http://www.cabaret-berlin.com/?p=705)

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Leo Monosson - Du schwarzer Zigeuner 1933

Harry Hiller Tanz-Orchester, Grammophon

(video by HeadHunter131)





(Les Troubadours du Temps Jadis)

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Heinz Rühmann

Heinz Rühmann als Kameramann, 1942

source: German Federal Archives
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1986-098-18,_Heinz_R%C3%BChmann_als_Kameramann.jpg)

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Heinz Rühmann lived a long life and had a wonderful career. I saw some movies starring him, I was a teenager, and I enjoyed them a lot. I wonder how they would seem to me now,

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Jean Pierre Ferland: Je reviens chez nous

Fais du feu dans la cheminée

(http://www.myspace.com/riquetdeward/photos/407344)

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Il a neigé à Port-au-Prince
Il pleut encore à Chamonix
On traverse à gué la Garonne
Le ciel est plein bleu à Paris

Ma mie l'hiver est à l'envers
Ne t'en retourne pas dehors
Le monde est en chamaille
On gèle au sud, on sue au nord

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je reviens

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Episcopul Wulfila

ilustratie de Gustave Doré
(publicata in madamepickwickartblog)

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Gustave Doré: Episcopul Ulfilas, in veacul al patrulea, si-a luat sarcina talmacirii Biblei pe limba gotilor lasand insa ceva la o parte, ceea ce sigur ca pare de mirare: Cartile Regilor. Gotii, socotea el, erau si asa prea indragostiti de razboaie, deci “le trebuia in privinta asta doar o

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Bishop Wulfila

image by Gustave Doré
(published in madamepickwickartblog)

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Gustave Doré: Bishop Ulfilas, in the fourth century, undertook the task of translating the Bible into the Gothic language with a curious omission: he left out the Book of Kings. The Goths, in his opinion, were already too fond of fighting, and “needed in that matter the bit, rather than the spur.”

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A Day To Remember: Puccini Was Born on December 22

A Day To Remember - December 22

Birthday of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
(image published on Facebook by Libri antichi online - Studio bibliografico Apuleio)

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(Old Masters)

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Jeremy Mann: View of a Room

Jeremy Mann: View of a Room

(published on Facebook by Jeremy Mann)

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This dialog of light and shadows is amazing. The work of a wizard. And each piece of furniture there, each thing in the room, like having a story of their own, each one with its story, told with restraint, more jealously hidden, jealousy from each other. And the little that is told,

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Music in the Age of Pyramids

Egyptian Harp of Old Kingdom

(http://www.manuelvela.es/2010/12/music-in-the-age-of-pyramids-2001/)

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Music in the Age of Pyramids is a research project coordinated by the Spanish musicologist Rafael Pérez Arroyo with the collaboration of Syra Bonet. The research process began in 1991. It consisted of a multidisciplinary study of the music, musical

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Edgard Varèse: Ionisation

Varèse with Stravinsky

(published in New York Arts)

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The image above shows both guys, but what follows is related only to one of them. Varèse composed in 1931 Ionisation for thirteen percussionists. It was seemingly the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble alone (a piano is part of the whole, considered also a percussion instrument,

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varèse

source: http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/varese.html

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edgard_Varese.gif)

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Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term organized sound, a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although

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Ioan Bianu

Ioan C. Bianu (1856-1935)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ioan_Bianu.jpg)

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Eram in clasa a sasea, si un unchi mi-a oferit o carte sa ma ajut cu ea la scoala. Era Istoria Literaturii Romane de Ioan Bianu, un manual de liceu, pe care l-am citit cu pasiune. Poate de acolo se trage dragostea mea pentru literatura romana (si poate si faptul ca

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Dimitrie A. Sturdza

Dimitrie Alexandru Sturdza (1833-1914)

Portrait Gallery of the Perry–Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at Austin

Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

H.F. Helmolt (ed.): History of the World. New York, 1901

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Sturdza.jpg)

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a fost in mai multe randuri

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Iacob Negruzzi

Iacob Negruzzi (1842-1932)

(fotografie aparuta in revista Familia nr.7, 1890)

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unul din fondatorii Junimii, a condus vreme de 28 de ani revista Convorbiri Literare.







Iacob Negruzzi: Nepasare

(aparuta in revista Familia nr.7, 1890)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Iacob Negruzzi este primul la masa

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Nicolae Gane

Nicolae Gane (1838-1916)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Gane_-_Foto01.jpg)

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scriitor si om politic, membru al Junimii, a fost unul din cei mai de seama primari ai Iasilor



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Nicolae Gane este primul in randul din stanga al mesei din dreapta.



(vezi si http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Autor:

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Nicolae Chiriac Quintescu

Nicolae Chiriac Quintescu (1841-1913)

(http://www.aman.ro/files/digitale/personalitati_doljene/personalitati/Q/quintescu%20nicolae%20chiriac.pdf)

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filolog, traducator, critic literar -  a tradus in 1876 Egmont al lui Goethe, intr-o versiune in care elementul popular este precumpanitor, iar fraza are o cursivitate in buna masura moderna (crispedia)

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Generalul Grigore Crainiceanu

Grigore Crainiceanu (1852-1935)

General de Divizie

source: http://www.mapn.ro/fotodb/ministrii/35_G
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:GrigoreCrainiceanu.jpg)

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A luptat in Razboiul de Independenta si in Razboiul de Intregire Nationala, a fost Sef al Marelui Stat Major si Ministru de Razboi. A fondat Revista armatei in 1883 și Cercul

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Constantin Erbiceanu

sursa: arhiva familiei Erbiceanu

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ulfila.JPG)

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(click here for the English version)

Mi-as dori mult sa ajung sa citesc cartea aceasta, numai ca e foarte greu de gasit: o carte publicata la Bucuresti in 1898, si purtand un titlu deosebit de lung, Ulfila, Viata si Doctrina lui, sau Starea Crestinismului in Dacia

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Andrei Barseanu

Andrei Barseanu (1858-1922)

(http://andrei-barseanu.licee.edu.ro/barseanu.htm)

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A fost in primul rand un mare pedagog, care si-a dedicat toata viata scolii. Isi amintea unul din fostii sai elevi, a nu sti raspunde lui Barseanu la lectii era o rusine pentru elevi. Nu dojenea Andrei Barseanu, ci se uita cu ochii sai buni si blanzi incat ai fi intrat in

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Ioan Bogdan

Ioan Bogdan (1864-1919)

(http://www.saguna.ro/web5/personalitati.html)

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(click here for the English version)

Prima oara am auzit de Ioan Bogdan in liceu: profesorul nostru de istorie il cita pentru a evidentia importanta factorului slavon in evolutia limbii romane. Ne-a vorbit atunci profesorul despre substrat si suprastrat. Orice limba, in afara originii

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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol

A. D. Xenopol (1847-1920)

(http://www.ghimpele.ro/articole/academia-romana/)

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istoric si filosof al istoriei, autorul primei mari sinteze a istoriei romanilor



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este primul din dreapta.



Contrar a ceea ce am crezut multa vreme, Xenopol nu avea ascendenti greci, ci anglo-saxoni. Iata ce ne spune el in Istoria

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Ioan D. Caragiani

imagine din Avdella

(locul natal al lui Ioan D. Caragiani)

(Regional Guide of West Macedonia / Avdella-Grevena)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Ioan D. Caragiani este al doilea in randul din dreapta al mesei din dreapta (dupa A. D. Xenopol).


Ioan D. Caragiani era aroman, nascut la Avdella in 1841, a studiat filologia la Universitatea din

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Alexandru Philippide

Alexandru I. Philippide (1859-1933)

source: http://www.academiaromana-is.ro/philippide/pages/Afis%20Philippide_2009_1a.jpg

(http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Alexandru_I._Philippide_-_Foto01.jpg)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Alexandru Philippide este al treilea in randul din dreapta al mesei din dreapta (intre Ioan D. Caragiani si

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Nicolae Iorga

Nicolae Iorga, Nicolae Titulescu si Savel Radulescu

iesind de la Camera Deputatilor, 9 Mai 1935

(cred ca la dreapta lui Iorga se afla Tatarascu)

source: http://cutiacuvechituri.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/03web.jpg

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Iorga,_Nicolae_Titulescu_%C5%9Fi_Savel_R%C4%83dulescu_la_ie%C5%9Fire_de_la_Camera_Deputa%C5%A3ilor.jpg)

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Anton Naum

Casa Vasile Pogor din Iasi, unde se tineau sedintele Junimii

(http://www.iasi-info.ro/16-1-9-Muzeul_Literaturii_Romane_Iasi-36)

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Oricat m-am straduit, nu am reusit sa gasesc o fotografie a lui Anton Naum. Doar in fotografia de grup a unei sedinte plenare a Academiei Romane din 1912: se afla langa Nicolae Iorga (care este usor de recunoscut, slava Domnului

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Constantin Istrati

Constantin I. Istrati (1850-1918)

statuie de Oscar Späthe

image:Cristian-Mihail Miehs
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Constantin_I._Istrati_-_Parcul_Carol.jpg)

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chimist si medic, coordonatorul construirii Parcului Carol din Bucuresti, colectionar de documente (acte de cancelarie emise in vremea lui Alexandru cel Bun, Stefan cel Mare, Bogdan al

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Ion Simionescu

Ion Th. Simionescu (1873-1944)

(http://istoriculzilei.blogspot.com/2012_01_07_archive.html)

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distins geolog si paleontolog, cu lucrari de referinta in paleontologia si stratigrafia mezozoicului european.



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este ultimul la masa din stanga (dupa Grigore Antipa).




Fiica sa, Cecilia Simionescu, este autoarea

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Grigore Antipa

Grigore Antipa (1867-1944)

(http://www.octogonul.ro/octogon/?p=167)

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zoolog, ihtiolog, ecolog, oceanolog, discipol al lui Ernst Haeckel, a fost vreme de cinzeci si doi de ani directorul Muzeului de Istorie Naturala din Bucuresti, muzeu care ii poarta numele.



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al optulea la masa din stanga (intre Anghel

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Anghel Saligny

Anghel Saligny (1854-1925)

(www.emaramures.ro/stiri/13775/ISTORIA-ZILEI-Evenimente-din-17-iunie-calendar-istoric-si-religios-aniversari-vedete)

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constructorul marelui pod dela Cernavoda, la vremea aceea cel mai lung pod din Europa

roman cu ascendenta franceza, acest mare inginer a fost unul din pionierii mondiali ai constructiilor de poduri cu

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Victor Babes

Victor Babes (1854-1926)

source: http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/pc/babes.jpg
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Victor_Babes.jpg)

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unul din pionierii bacteriologiei mondiale, fondatorul scolii romanesti de microbiologie


In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al saselea la masa din stanga (intre Stefan Hepites si Anghel Saligny).



S-a

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Stefan Hepites

Stefan Hepites (1851-1922)
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:%C5%9Etefan_Hepites.jpg)

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intemeietorul meteorologiei si seismologiei in Romania




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al cincilea la masa din stanga (intre Petru Poni si Victor Babes).






teodolit folosit de Stefan Hepites la elaborarea primei harti geomagnetice a

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Petru Poni

Petru Poni (1841-1925)

(http://brailachirei.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/expozitie-deosebita-la-casa-%E2%80%9Eperpessicius%E2%80%9D/)

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chimist si mineralog, intemeietorul scolii romanesti de chimie




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al patrulea la masa din stanga (intre Nicolae Teclu si Stefan Hepites).



(1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana)

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Nicolae Teclu

Nicolae Teclu (1839-1916)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Teclu.jpg)

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fiu al Brasovului, unul din profesorii eminenti ai Vienei, a fost primul chimist roman recunoscut la nivel international.




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al treilea la masa din stanga (intre generalul Crainceanu si Petru Poni).




(1912: Sedinta

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Spiru Haret

Spiru Haret (1851-1912)

statuie de Ion Jalea, 1935

marmura de Carrara




matematician, astronom, pedagog, marele legiuitor al invatamantului romanesc


Un crater lunar ii poarta numele: craterul Haret.

(vezi si Spiritul Haretian in Cultura Romana)


In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este primul din stanga.


(1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana)

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1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana

Sedinta plenara la Academia Romana, 1912

(published on Facebook by Iulian Bilauschi)

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O fotografie care m-a facut sa visez, sa ma las furat de inchipuire: eram si eu in anul acela, 1912, cand elita tarii acesteia era intr-adevar elita, cand printre cei care ne erau modele se numarau Teclu si Babes, Iorga si Saligny. Era vremea cand tara noastra avea un

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Dreaming at Evanescent Cafés

(click here for the Romanian version)


À la moitié du chemin de la vraie vie, nous étions environnés d'une sombre mélancolie, qu'ont exprimée tant de mots railleurs et tristes, dans le café de la jeunesse perdue.


(Guy Debord)


[At the halfway of real life, we were surrounded by a dark melancholy, that so many mocking and sad words have expressed, in the café of lost youth]


A friend

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Cafenele in care sa-ti uiti uitarea

(image from FilmeCarti)

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(click here for the English version)


À la moitié du chemin de la vraie vie, nous étions environnés d'une sombre mélancolie, qu'ont exprimée tant de mots railleurs et tristes, dans le café de la jeunesse perdue.


(Guy Debord)



Deunazi un prieten mi-a dat de stire asupra unei carti nou aparute in traducere romaneasca. Nu stiam

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Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano

(image published in Dominique's Villas)

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He was born in the same year I did, 1945. Beginning 1968 he did nothing but write.





(video by Raoulle)



He is trying here to imagine how looked the theatre that once was running in that place. It happened to me once to be somehow in the reverse situation: I was in Riga, by that time under

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介)

(1892 - 1927)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akutagawa_Ryunosuke_photo.jpg)

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He is considered the father of Japanese short story. Kurosawa's Rashômon is inspired by two of his works - and these two works also play an active role in the intrigue of Jarmush's Ghost Dog.



(A Life in Books)

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Setsuko Hara in a Kurosawa's Movie from 1946

Photo of Setsuko Hara from 1946

with her rōmaji signature

(source: Ernie K. in Mary and Leo)

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I found this story in a blog that I came upon looking for more info on Setsuko Hara. It was 1946. Ernie K. was by that time in the Army and was touring Japan with a group of fellow G.I.s. One of the days they came in front of a film studio, it was by pure chance.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Bowles.jpg)

source: http://www.nndb.com/people/670/000113331/paul-bowles.jpg

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Born in Jamaica, Brooklyn, NY. Student of University of Virginia, where he was interested in Prokofiev, Duke Ellington, Gregorian chants and Blues (plus T.S.Eliot). Dropped twice. Years spent in Paris, where he was in Gertrude Stein's

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A Song Among The Sheltering Years

(cover of the sheet music, 1914)

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I came to this song today by a chain of associations: I talked in my previous post about the journey made by an American artist in the 1870's in Morocco. The story called in my mind a movie, where a journey of three American artists in the 1930's or 1940's through Morocco was unfolding toward tragedy. The American artist

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Man Leading a Camel

Man Leading a Camel

(source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm)

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It was 1877. Edwin Lord Weeks commenced to work on the painting whose image is above. It was destined for the 1878 Salon - his first Salon exhibit. He then got ready to spend a long winter in Morocco (the details of which were published in Scribner's Magazine in 1901).

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Courtyard in Morocco

Courtyard in Morocco

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm
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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Feeding the Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur

Feeding the Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur

ca. 1894

(source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Tangiers

Tangiers

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

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In 1871, Edwin Lord Weeks traveled to Morocco, Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria as far as Damascus, accompanied by a friend, the illustrator A P Close. His sketchbooks from that visit overflow with North African scenes. However, at Beirut, Close died following a fever and was buried

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Edwin Lord Weeks: A Persian Cafe

A Persian Cafe

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weeks_Edwin_Lord_A_Persian_Cafe.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Along the Ghats of Mathura

Along the Ghats of Mathura

1883

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Along_the_Ghats_of_Mathura.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Weeks at Walters: Interior of a Mosque at Cordova

Interior of a Mosque at Cordova

oil on canvas, ca. 1880

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Lord_Weeks_-_Interior_of_a_Mosque_at_Cordova_-_Walters_37169.jpg)

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This work, set in the 8th-century great mosque of Cordova in Spain, may have been begun in 1880 while Edwin Lord Weeks was staying in that city (wiki). The

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Great Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India

Great Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India

Portland Museum of Art
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Mogul_And_His_Court_Returning_From_The_Great_Mosque_At_Delhi_India_-_Oil_Painting_by_American_Artist_Edwin_Lord_Weeks.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore

An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore

ca. 1889

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weeks_Edwin_Lord_An_Open-Air_Restaurant_Lahore.jpg)

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The scene is near Wazir Khan Mosque, famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as a mole on the cheek of Lahore (wiki).



(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: The Barge Of The Maharaja Of Benares

The Barge Of The Maharaja Of Benares

ca. 1883

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Barge_Of_The_Maharaja_Of_Benares_ca_1883.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903)

source: Joseph Uzanne, Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani, Librairie Henri Floury, Paris, vol VIII, 1903 (Biblioteque Nationale de France)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Lord_Weeks.jpg)

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A distinguished painter of oriental scenes, the son of an affluent tea and spice merchant from Newton, Massachusetts,

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Kurosawa

Photo of Akira Kurosawa directing. Unknown date

黒澤 明

Courtesy of the NY Public Library Public Digital Collection

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akira_Kurosawa_directing.jpeg)

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The Asian of the Century, they named him. I haven't seen many movies of Kurosawa, as my focus went decidedly to Ozu. And if you say Asian, you should also think at Ray, at

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Pacific Coast Highway, near Cape Sebastian

Pacific Coast Highway, Oregon, Astoria to Depoe Bay

near Cape Sebastian

image: Philip James Corwin/Corbis

(http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2010/11/visiting-america-part-2.html)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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A Modern Christmas Carol at the Hancock Church

Hancock United Church of Christ, Congregational, Lexington MA
photo by John Phelan

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hancock_United_Church_of_Christ,_Lexington_MA.jpg)

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The kids from Lexington, MA in a one-time performance of a modern Christmas Carol, at the Hancock Church. My two granddaughters were in the show. You would recognize them. Daria was in

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Longfellow: Agassiz

Louis Agassiz giving a lecture, 1870

source: Schweizerischer Beobachter
(http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/AGA/louis-agassiz.html)

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Agassiz had been among the best friends of Longfellow, and his death was a hard blow for the poet.


I stand again on the familiar shore,
And hear the waves of the distracted sea
Piteously calling and lamenting thee,
And

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Arvid Has Prepared Treats for Santa

Thomas Arvid - Treats for Santa

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Christmas is around the corner and Arvid is ready with some treats for Santa. Surely the old guy won't mind tasting some wine and cookies.

For Arvid art lovers: it's a limited edition of Giclée on paper of 150 17 x 6 inches. If interested you should contact him.


(P and C Art)

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Florent Schmitt: Le Palais Hanté (after Poe)

(http://poeforward.blogspot.com/2012/04/haunted-palace-published-1839.html)

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The works of Poe were highly important in the literary life of turn-of-the-century France. Baudelaire translated his tales. Mallarmé put a collection of his poems into French; and it is not unreasonable to claim that Poe's are among the few works to gain, rather than lose, in

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A State of Mind

New York Stories

(published on Facebook by NY-NY Stories)

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(New York, New York)

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Stravinsky Plays Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

Veery Books

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Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra




Igor Stravinsky, piano


Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre des Concerts Walther Straram Paris

rec. 1930





I. Presto

(video by gullivior)






II. Andante rapsodico

III. Allegro capriccioso (5:05)

(video by gullivior)




(Stravinsky)

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Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

(http://www.dancemuseum.org/hall_of_fame/Igor.htm)

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Firstly there were The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. It was then his neoclassical period, with concerti grossi, fugues and symphonies. And eventually he became a serialist. That's in short. He was one of the most influential composers of the 20's century.



Stravinsky Plays

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Surrealism Heroes

(posted on Facebook by SKAALAA)

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Edelina Stoian shared this image on Facebook, a big thank you to her!

Here is my guess:


front row (from left to right): Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Man Ray
rear: Paul Éluard, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, René Crevel


(Avangarda 20)

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Poe and Longfellow: The Feud of Two Poems

H.W.Longfellow to R.W.Griswold

autographed letter, Sept, 28, 1850

(image from Longfellow’s Serenity and Poe’s Prediction)

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The letter in the image above is one of the documents related to an unfortunate feud between two great poets: Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Each one great in his own way, both very different each other in all

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Inceput de Decembrie in Parcul IOR

(Bucuresti)

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My Granddaughter Bianca in the School Orchestra

Diamond Junior High School, Lexington, MA

photo by John M. Sullivan

(http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11178557)

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As most of you know, I am the proud grandfather of Bianca and Daria. I will talk today about Bianca. She is a student in the Diamond Junior High School and she plays the viola in the school orchestra. They had a concert and here are 3 videos:

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Charles Simic: The Lunatic

is one snowflake the same or different from another?

(image from Riveredge Nature Center)

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The same snowflake

kept falling out of the gray sky

all afternoon,

falling and falling

and picking itself up

off the ground,

to fall again,

but now more surreptitiously,

more carefully

as ...

(http://facts.ch/articles/8492864-charles-simic-8220the-lunatic

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Charles Simic

Charles Simic

(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic)

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He began to make a name for himself in the early to mid 1970s as a literary minimalist, writing terse, imagistic poems. Critics have referred to his poems as tightly constructed Chinese puzzle boxes. Said the poet, words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is

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Johnny Hallyday - La Chanson du Roumain

Johnny Hallyday

(Music Autographs)

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I got this video from Ioan Cuciurca, and I wish to thank him very much: it's a refreshing song, unexpectedly refreshing, and, as Ioana Bogdan says, it was a time in the sixties - seventies when Romanian popular music was appreciated a lot in France, and not only. What has happened meanwhile? Well, it's much to say.

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The World Was So Different Then...

(posted on Facebook by New Yorkers)

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The world was so different then, like the children playing in the foreground...


(Kate Lester Harrigan)


(America viewed by Americans)


(New York, New York)

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La Sorcière (The Blonde Witch) 1956

(movie poster, from the Lukeraba's Blog)

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I think this poster does not make justice to the film, which is a story of love told with simplicity and honesty. The movie (La Sorcière, made in 1956) is just that: simple and honest. A young man (Maurice Ronet) comes in a village where conditions are primitive and people fear witches and stuff. He meets by chance

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Strada Lunca Bradului - Balconul cu Flori

(Bucuresti)

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7 Etnii la Marea Neagra

(http://sarichioi-ro.jouwweb.nl/excursie-din-sarichioi1/mila-231)

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Domnul Alexandru Ursu Bukovina mi-a atras atentia asupra acestui film: 7 Etnii la Marea Neagra. E un film facut cu suflet, cu inteligenta si cu un simt acut al frumosului.


Intr-o arie geografica foarte restransa, intre granitele a trei state, separate de firul de apa a doua rauri – Prut

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Florent Schmitt as viewed by Eugène Pirou

Florent Schmitt viewed by Eugène Pirou

source: Bibliothèque Nationale de France

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florent_Schmitt_1900.jpg)

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I am wandering whether to consider Florent Schmitt an Old Master or a Musica Nova guy. Well, I know that the general acceptance of the term Old Master sends well back in time. On the other way, time is running

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A New Work by Jeremy Mann

The Night Before You Ran Away

oil on panel

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151121595812007&set=oa.559754990704911&type=1&theater)

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Jeremy Mann (whose art I know from Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA) will be with this work (and two others) at The Safehouse Show VI. The Rooster Show, 80 Langton, San Francisco, CA: November 30, 7-10 PM. It's

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John Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes

The Eve of St. Agnes. Madeline undressing

painting by Sir John Everett Millais

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eve_of_St_Agnes.jpg)

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Looking for the same word I was searching on Browning's poetry I am now browsing the poem of John Keats. I wouldn't give here the full text this time, there are 42 Spenserian stanzas. You will find them at this web

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Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA

National Portrait Gallery, London

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_everett_millais.jpg)

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Born in Southampton in 1829, of a prominent Jersey-based family. Asked Thackeray him once, when England conquered Jersey? Replied he, Never! Jersey conquered England! (cited in Chums annual, 1896, page 213). His

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John Keats

John Keats

a portrait by William Hilton

National Portrait Gallery, London
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Keats_by_William_Hilton.jpg)

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One of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Byron and Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.


(wiki)



The Eve of St. Agnes

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Richard Hall: Hanging Out at the Drive In

Richard Hall, Hanging Out at the Drive In

oil on panel

on view at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
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For Richard Hall, oil painting is a connection to the past. As a boy growing up in England,
Richard spent many hours watching his grandfather create fine furniture. "The man was a master
craftsman, employing traditional tools and working methods handed

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Ryan Brown: El Matador

Ryan Brown, El Matador

oil on linen

on view at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

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Ryan Brown is an artist from Utah with a keen interest in the academic and naturalist traditions of the nineteenth century. This brought him to Florence, to be there in the middle of what he felt to be his natural universe.


(Principle Gallery)

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Robert Browning: Porphyria's Lover

(image from http://www.myspace.com/antrodiladamainnero)

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The rain set early in tonight,

The sullen wind was soon awake,

It tore the elm-tops down for spite,

And did its worst to vex the lake:

I listened with heart fit to break.

When glided in Porphyria; straight

She shut the cold out and the storm,

And kneeled and made the cheerless grate

Blaze up

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Robert Browning

1882 caricature of Robert Browning

from Punch Magazine, 22nd July 1882, page 34

author: Edward Linley Sambourne

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_browning_cartoon-1-.png)

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It's a fancy dream that I'm indulging in right now: I am in Notting Hill on Portobello Road, in the shop of an antiquarian, browsing a volume by this guy Robert Browning, 

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Grigore Alexandrescu: Umbra lui Mircea - La Cozia

(imagine preluata din aliosapopovici.wordpress.com)

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Ale turnurilor umbre peste unde stau culcate:

Catre tarmul dimpotriva se intind, se prelungesc,

S-ale valurilor mindre generatii spumegate

Zidul vechi al manastirei in cadenta il izbesc.



Dintr-o pestera, din ripa, noaptea iese, ma-mpresoara:

De pe muche, de pe stinca, chipuri negre se cobor;

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Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(image from Poetry Lovers' Page)

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The poet I first encountered when coming to America was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Of course, there were indirect encounters: passing by his house in Cambridge, and walking on the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River.

I was visiting my son's family and they were living by that time in

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Bolintineanu si Chénier - Doua Poeme

Gravure ornant le Chansonnier des Amis du Roi et des Bourbons, 1815

(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:La_Jeune_Captive.jpg)

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Pe-un pat alb ca un lintoliu zace lebada murinda,

Zace palida vergina cu lungi gene, voce blanda -

Viata-i fu o primavara, moartea-o parere de rau;

Iar poetul ei cel tanar o privea cu imbatare,

Si din lira curgeau note si

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Quarter-plate daguerreotype taken by William Abbott Pratt in Richmond, VA, September 1849

source: Sotheby's

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Allan_Poe_by_Pratt,_1849.jpg)

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William Pratt opened the Virginia Sky Light Daguerrean Gallery in Richmond in 1846, seven years after the daguerreotype was introduced into the United States. As

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Only in NYC

(published on Facebook by New Yorkers)

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(America viewed by Americans)


(New York, New York)

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Tony Kaye: Don't

(from Alex Hughes Cartoons and Caricatures)

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Tony Kaye sings Don't for Mike Caffrey at Monster Island in Chelsea, NYC.




(video by Mike Caffrey)



(Tony Kaye)

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O Fotografie a lui Grigore Alexandrescu

Grigore Alexandrescu

fotografie de W. Wollenteit
Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei

(http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Grigore_Alexandrescu_-_Foto01.jpg)

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Care sa fie data fotografiei? Singura indicatie ar fi aceea ca fotograful W. Wollenteit a lucrat la Bucuresti intre 1859 - 1865, avandu-si studioul pe Podul Mogosoaiei (Calea Victoriei de azi) in

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Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye

(http://www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Sat-091011.index.html)

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To enter the world of Tony Kaye's movies, perhaps we should start with this video: the guy is singing Detachment (I Just Don't Care) , a song inspired by his latest feature. The video was shot by Mike Caffrey on Broadway as Tony jogged home after performing at Webster Hall and a late dinner

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Umberto Giordano: a Portrait and a Photo

Umberto Giordano
portrayed by Gaetano Esposito, 1896

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Umberto_Giordano_by_Gaetano_Esposito.jpg)

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(http://www.isideweb.com/palermo/massimo/glorie.html)

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(Old Masters)

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Oval Office, August 1956

Secretary of State Dulles and President Eisenhower in the Oval Office
August 1956

Abbie Rowe, Photo Quest /  Getty Images
(NY Times)

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(Zoon Politikon)

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André Chénier

André Chénier lors de son incarcération

par Joseph-Benoît Suvée
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chenier.JPEG)

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Bolintineanu et Chénier - Deux Poèmes



(A Life in Books)

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Muscle Car Museum in Gatlinburg,TN

(published on Facebook by VisitMySmokies)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Clocks on the Wall in The Smokies

(published on Facebook by VisitMySmokies)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Road in The Smokies

(published on Facebook by VisitMySmokies)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Music Box in The Smokies

Porter Music Box

The Incredible Christmas Place at Pigeon Forge, TN

(posted on Facebook by VisitMySmokies)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Dimitrie Bolintineanu

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimitrie_Bolintineanu_-_Foto02.jpg)

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Trec deseori in drumurile mele prin oras pe o strada foarte scurta, taiata in doua de Bulevardul Hristo Botev. Strada incepe dinspre strada Radu Cristian (fosta Melodiei - pe care a copilarit Mircea Eliade), dupa numai vreo doua case ajunge in Hristo Botev (

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Cezar Bolliac: O Dimineata pe Caraiman

Muntii Caraiman in martie 2005
Foto: Lucian Amarandei (Canon A510)
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Caraiman_busteni.jpeg)
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Am fost si eu in tinerete pe Caraiman, de cateva ori. De si mai multe dati, cand eram tanar si apoi cand nu mai eram chiar atat de tanar, l-am privit din goana trenului. Voi mai avea oare prilejul sa ajung acolo sus? Poate ca

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Obama in Thailand

President Obama and Premier Yingluck Shinawatra 
cordial talks
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaste

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President Obama and Premier Yingluck Shinawatra 
moment of toasts
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaste

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President Obama and Premier Yingluck Shinawatra 
going to the joint press conference
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaste

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Body of Christ

(http://www.seekhim.org/spiritual-cancer.htm)

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Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God

(1 Corinthians 12:4-13)


Darurile sunt felurite, dar acelasi Duh. Si felurite slujiri sunt, dar acelasi Domn. Si lucrarile sunt felurite

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The Great Mosque in Mecca

المسجد الحرام (Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, The Great Mosque in Mecca)

(http://sacredsites.com/middle_east/saudi_arabia/mecca.html)

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There's a saying that a Pilgrim that travels to Mecca for the Hajj should leave the Holy City quickly, so, as not to get attached to it.


(Zain Verjee, CNN anchor and a practicing Ismaili Muslim)




(Sufi)

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Portraits of a President as a Young Man

meeting with Carter, 1978

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Clinton_1978.jpg)

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with McGovern in Little Rock, Ark.

1972 Presidential Campaign

(image Associated Press, published in The NY Times)

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shaking hands with JFK
(published on Facebook by Интересно о гениях и известных личностях)

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Valerio d'Ospina viewed by Jeremy Mann

Valerio d'Ospina working on one of his paintings

Instagram photo made by Jeremy Mann
(published on Facebook by Jeremy Mann)

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(Principle Gallery)

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A Poem by Marshak

(posted on Facebook by Интересно о гениях и известных личностях)

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I talked about Samuil Marshak just recently: a poem I had wrongly attributed to him, actually authored by Sergey Mikhalkov. Well, I found on Facebook another Russian poem, by Marshak this time: Цветная осень (Colored Autumn). With my poor knowledge of Russian  I understood the rhymes only

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Bill Maloney

Bill Maloney
filmmaker and child abuse survivor

(http://article.wn.com/view/2012/04/26/Wake_Forest_University_to_honor_four_family_businesses/)

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(Filmofilia)

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William Blake: A Divine Image

(http://ramhornd.blogspot.com/2011/11/divine-image.html)

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Not to be confounded with another of his poems (The Divine Image), this one seems weird at first reading. Actually Blake attained in A Divine Image poetic perfection.




Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.

The human dress

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A Story about a Forgotten Poem

(http://ped-kopilka.ru/shkolnye-prazdniki/den-znanii-1-sentjabrja/stihi-o-shkole-dlja-mladshih-shkolnikov.html)

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A souvenir came to visit me, unexpectedly: a long forgotten poem learned sometime in the middle school. Had it been the fifth grade? The sixth? Impossible to remember. A poem about a bunch of classmates who meet after many years. Each one with a

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All Saints Day

image from the page of Union Avenue Christian Church
(a faith community growing in the treasures of justice, stewardship, artistic expression and hospitality)

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Says Rev. David Ensign, today is All Saints Day, and with it comes the invitation to remember the saints of your own life. Who are the ones who have gone before and shown you the way? Who have

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David Graux: L'Echo d'un Songe

David Graux: L'Echo d'un Songe

(http://gerhardsblog.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html)

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His main subject is the beauty and mystery of woman, evoked both through his sensual nudes and through the symbolic richness and Oriental motifs of his colorful backgrounds. His paintings are, in effect, forms of tangible poetry.

(Claudia Moscovici)


And here is a

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A Little Bit About Kannada

Ferdinand Kittel (1832-1903)

image from 1854

source: Heidrun Brückner [u.a.]: Indienforschung im Zeitenwandel. Analyse und Dokumente zur Indologie und Religionswissenschaft in Tübingen

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kittel,_Ferdinand_%281832-1903%29.jpg)

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Tomorrow is November 1st, and my Indian friends celebrate Karnataka Rajyotsava, commemorating

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Claude Verlinde: Les Marottes

Claude Verlinde, Les Marottes, 1989

oil on canvas mounted on wood

(posted on Facebook by The Macabre And the Beautifully Grotesque)

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The English title of this painting is Jester's Baubles, the German one, Die Narrenstäbe. I found it on Facebook, also in a blog of eigene Lyrik mit ausgewählten Bildern (own poetry with selected images) - the blog of a

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Claude Verlinde

Claude Verlinde
(http://www.conservapedia.com/Claude_Verlinde)

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Looking at the works of Claude Verlinde, the first name that came to my mind was Remedios Varo. Both can be considered as Magical Realists, while there is a difference between them, that lies, I would say, in the sense of enigma. Each work of Remedios Varo brings an enigma, and the same is true

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NY Times: Reports from Syria

NY Times correspondent C.J.Chivers reports from Syria.




video from NY Times




(Zoon Politikon)

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On Domenico Scarlatti's Birthday

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

portrait by Domingo Antonio Velasco, around 1739

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_Scarlatti_%28azul%29.jpg)

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Domenico Scarlatti was born in 1685 (the same year with Bach and Handel), on October 26. So it's his birthday exactly today.

Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas are single movements, mostly in binary form, and

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Dorothea Lange: Country Store from North Carolina, 1939

Dorothea Lange: Country Store from North Carolina, 1939

(posted by Edelina Stoian on Facebook)

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The old American images that Edelina Stoian finds and shares with us on Facebook are extraordinary. I also like her stories about old Vienna and old Prague, about pastries you can find in Venice and about dolls who can play tricks to dreamers. I would like to

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2012 Presidential Debate SPOOF- Rap Battles (ROUND 3)

(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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How To Write a Story

(http://books.google.com/books?id=yIRnMyM7lcMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)

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This is a story about how to write a story. It has a totally different title: it's named A Conversation with My Father, and is by Grace Paley, part of a collection published in 1974, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. I found the story

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Grace Paley: Suddenly There’s Poughkeepsie

Mid-Hudson Bridge as Seen from Vassar Hospital - Poughkeepsie

(http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/b6528/cd92f/)

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Grace Paley released the poem shortly before her death.

Suddenly there's Poughkeepsie / except for its spelling / an ordinary town - great phrase - there is also anonther one in this poem - Lorldly Hudson - she was embracing all, mockery and

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Grace Paley

Grace Paley

(1922 - 2007)

(http://gothamist.com/2007/08/24/grace_paley.php)

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She was describing herself as a somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist.


...(if) you have a habit of looking at each day as a whole day -- unless you drop dead at noon or something -- then every day you live something interesting. It's interesting because you

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Jhumpa Lahiri

(Click here for the Romanian version)


Firstly I saw the movie made by Mira Nair, The Namesake. Then I found in bookshops the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was her second book, coming after a collection of short stories with an intriguing title, Interpreter of Maladies.

A very few words about who Jhumpa Lahiri is: born in London, where her parents had come from Calcutta, they moved to the

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The Music of Ron Carter

Ron Carter

(http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=5580#.UIPcaWfRUQY)

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I just got on Facebook a great gift from my friend Vali Nas, and I am eager to share it with you all: a video with Ron Carter. For Vali, Ron Carter is his preferred bass-player, and the amazing Piccolo LP one of the great jazz albums (the song on the video below is from

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Let's Meet Alex Blake

Alex Blake at Jazz Standard, NY, 2007

photo: Dmitry Scherbi

source: Alex Blake, Jazz Standard, March 2007

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_Blake_photo_2.jpg)

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Says Marcia Bujold, if you like jazz, check this guy Alex Blake out. He is incredible! I've never heard anyone play a bass like that! Not just plucking strings, but also using the strings

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2012 Presidential Debate SPOOF- Rap Battles (ROUND 2)

(http://www.wild1063.com/pages/babygirl1.html?article=9292309)

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(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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Strada General Nicolae Dona

(Bucuresti)

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Casa de pe Strada Astronomului

Strada Astronomului este foarte scurta, vreo trei case de o parte si de alta. Leaga strazile Putul cu Plopi si Luigi Cazzavillan, foarte aproape de intrarea in Cismigiu de pe Stirbei Voda. In copilarie mi se intampla sa trec destul de des pe acolo. Era o casa pe strada Astronomului al carei aspect ma impresionase. O asociam cu numele strazii si imi imaginam ca este fie locuinta vreunui

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Palatul Kretzulescu

Construit in anul 1902 dupa planurile arhitectului Petre Antonescu, palatul a apartinut mai intai Printesei Elena Kretzulescu. Se afla langa intrarea in Cismigiu de pe strada Stirbei Voda. Coborand treptele spre marea gradina, palatul te insoteste majestous, impreuna cu sera amintindu-ti de dragostea Printesei pentru natura si flori. Odata ajuns la capatul treptelor, esti intampinat de un

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The Buzz-Word of the Week: Malarkey

published in the DCist

(photo by number7cloud)

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You'd say it's some kind of Big Bird or something, coming to let you know that he's all for VP Biden. It could be, what means that Sesame Street is to be found some place near Dupont Circle. Anyway, malarky seems to be the buzz-word of the week. Well, according to the Free Dictionary, malarky (or rather

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Gordon Parks: Mary Macado, Mother of Isabeli Lopez, and Family

published in Artlog

by courtesy of International Center of Photography

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(Gordon Parks)

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Gordon Parks: Alabama, Untitled

Untitled, Mobile, Alabama
published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama
published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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(Gordon Parks)

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Goordon Parks: Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning

published in Artlog

by courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

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(Gordon Parks)

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Fighting Racism with a Camera: Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

(http://aftm.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/gordon-parks/)

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Photographer, musician, writer and film director, Gordon Parks remained best known for capturing the trials and joys of African Americans, in his photo-essays for Life magazine. I had known poverty firsthand, he once said, but there I learned how to fight its evil—along with the evil of

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Suchitra Bhosle: Old Blue Building

Suchitra Bhosle: Old Blue Building

oil on panel

(published on Facebook by Principle Gallery)

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There is a special quality in this painting, the building seems to carry an old story, of good and bad times, and it's letting you discover that story, with subtlety and some noble, wise resignation.

Suchitra Bhosle was born in Bangalore, India, in a family of

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Vivaldi on Accordion

Il Prete rosso Compositore di Musica che fece L'opera a Capranica del 1723

Caricature of Antonio Vivaldi by Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1723

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vivaldi_caricature.png)

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I found on the web a wonderful video: a street performer in Warsaw, Poland, plays the third movement from the Four Seasons on accordion. Incredible freshness of

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Jeremy Mann: Window Shopping

Window Shopping

a Photo taken by Jeremy Mann with Instagram

(with Victoria Rosenberger and Angela d'Ospina)

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(Principle Gallery)

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Junot Diaz about Books, Love, Matriarchal Revolution, New York

(http://www.accidentalamerican.us/blog/junot_diaz_on_becoming_american.php)

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New York is home in ways few places are, says Junot Diaz, who lives part-time in Harlem and part-time in Cambridge. He adds, I feel like I have Jersey and the Dominican Republic, and they come together in New York City because New York has about a million Dominican immigrants.

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What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands? (Rilke)

Ephraim Rubenstein: What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands?

from The Rilke Series

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Hände auf?

Was fängt sind so wohlriechend wie Ihre Hände auf? Sie
glauben, wie externer Duft nach Ihrem stärkeren Widerstand steht.
Sterne stehen in den Bildern oben. Mir Ihre Öffnung geben, um zu
erweichen, zu lieben; ah, ist Ihr Haar alles in der Nutzlosigkeit.

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Alphacat: I Don't Like

(http://article.wn.com/view/2012/05/06/In_launching_2012_bid_Obama_targets_Romney_v/)

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(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 1, I)

Ephraim Rubenstein: Sonnet to Orpheus

from The Rilke Series

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Da stieg ein Baum. O reine Übersteigung!
O Orpheus singt! O hoher Baum im Ohr!
Und alles schwieg. Doch selbst in der Verschweigung
ging neuer Anfang, Wink und Wandlung vor.

Tiere aus Stille drangen aus dem klaren
gelösten Wald von Lager und Genist;
und da ergab sich, daß sie nicht aus List

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 2, XIII)

Ephraim Rubenstein: Be Ahead of All Parting

from The Rilke Series

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Sei allem Abschied voran, als wäre er hinter

dir, wie der Winter, der eben geht.

Denn unter Wintern ist einer so endlos Winter,

daß, überwinternd, dein Herz überhaupt übersteht.



Sei immer tot in Eurydike --, singender steige,

preisender steige zurück in den reinen Bezug.

Hier,

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What's the Right Orchestral Instrument for Me?

(posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita)

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click on the image to enlarge


(Old Masters)

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Ephraim Rubenstein: Unity in Contrasts

Ephraim Rubenstein: Steve Chu's open

(http://www.ephraimrubenstein.com/632/exhibitions/streets-exhibition-principle-gallery-alexandria/)

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As I was looking at the image above, it was Hopper that came in mind. Then I saw the image below, and I realized that the author was searching for a unity in contrasts.

Ephraim Rubenstein will be present on Streets, a

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John Cage Exhibition at Washington National Gallery

John Cage: 10 Stones 2, 1989

color spitbite aquatint and sugarlift on smoked Whatman paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

gift of Kathan Brown, 1996

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=97462&image=70785&c=)

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John Cage has been, as we know, the Great Master of Indeterminacy, and he devised complicated creative strategies that were

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Sa-mi canti, cobzar...

Stefan Iordache
(http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Stefan_Iordache-1.jpg)

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Sa-mi canti cobzar batran cevaSa-mi canti ce stii mai bineCa bani ti-oi da si vin ti-oi daSi haina de pe mineCa bani ti-oi da si vin ti-oi daSi haina de pe mineSa-mi canti cobzar batran cevaSa-mi canti si din vioaraCa doar s-o ispravi de

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Ploaia si Noi

Doina Badea

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Destinul a fost prea nedrept cu ea. Si de cate ori mi se intampla sa ascult o inregistrare cu Doina Badea, imi dau lacrimile.






(video by SMargarit)



(Les Troubadours du Temps Jadis)

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Arvid Is Working on a PerryMoore canvas

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491011027575567&set=a.100729353270405.1439.100000000217321&type=1&theater)

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Arvid is working a a new canvas, celebrating the joy and spirit of the PerryMoore wine, and lokking at the image I'd say it'll be a celebration in style.


(P and C Art)

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The Piano Is A Good Friend

(posted on Facebook by Hugh Laurie)

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The piano is a good friend. It doesn't talk back. You can't lose a piano. It's a constant companion. It can give you everything you need


(Hugh Laurie, English actor, comedian, writer and musician)






Hugh Laurie playing on an 1926 Wurlitzer Organ

(Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda, NY, courtesy @Riviera TD)

(

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Dante's Inferno in a Movie from 1911

Giuseppe de Liguoro, co-director of Dante's Inferno (1911)

(Italian Cinema: The Silent Era)

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Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré this silent film from 1911 has here a score created by Tangerine Dream.

(imdb)




(video by edesera)


(Dante)


(Early Movies)

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Dante

Dante, poised between Purgatory and Florence

detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, 1465

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DanteDetail.jpg)

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Long time ago (too long) I was nel mezzo del cammin, as Dante used to be sometime. I was just beginning to realize that young age was passing.  I didn't yet know that it would be the same with the old age.

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A Song for Madeleine

Madeleine in Bethesda



There is a chain of restaurants in the South and it is named La Madeleine. You can find them in Washington, DC (in Georgetown) and in the Greater DC area (Alexandria, Bethesda, etc), and also in Texas (in Fort Worth, then in the Dallas region - for instance in Grapevine, etc). There aren't Madeleine restaurants in NY or Philadelphia, and I think neither in Baltimore.

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Cindy Procious: the Portrait of Mia

Cindy Procious: Mia - Portrait of an Artist

oil on canvas

Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
(http://principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6247)

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(Principle Gallery)

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A New Whistler Exhibition at Freer

James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Chelsea Children

watercolor on paper, mid 1880's

Freer Gallery, Gift of Charles Lang Freer

(http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.asp)

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A new exhibition starts at Freer Gallery tomorrow, and it will be open for one year, till September 8, 2013. It's named Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions on a Changing London - an

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A Map of Europe from 1870

Europe, 1870's, W.Schlamp

published on Facebook by Alexandru Ursu-Bukowina

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The map of Europe, as it was at the beginning of the 1870's. The publishing house (Druck u. Verlag v. H Gerbart) was Viennese. The military helmet over the center of the map represented Germany, just set as a major continental player after the Franco-Prussian War (the German

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Junot Diaz: Living By the Book

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Junot Diaz about books: great books, books on his shelves, books that made him cry, books that made him laugh, and so on. It appeared in NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/junot-diaz-by-the-book.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw), on August 30. Here are quick notes I made while reading this stuff. The notes are fragments from the text,

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John Cage: In a Landscape (1948)

(Album d'un Pessimiste)

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For argoneum, it reminds of an autumn evening, when you know that this night are longer and each day is closer to winter. Fields are empty, and last warm sun rays are shining through the colorful leaves. For Trey Walker, it reminds of being sad. For Mostly Noise, it is music that seems to suspend time.





John Cage, In a

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The Battle of Blair Mountain

Battle of Blair Mountain

August 25 to September 2, 1921

Logan County, West Virginia, United States

Result: Setback of miners' rights until early 1930s when Federal Government recognized labor unions

(posted on Facebook by Gloria Torres)

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The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the biggest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed

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John Cage

John Cage

(1912 - 1992)

American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Cage_Laugh.png)

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A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century.

(wiki)


Cage is

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George Cosbuc: Decebal catre popor

era priceput in ale razboiului si iscusit la fapta; stiind cand sa navaleasca si cand sa se retraga la timp, mester in a intinde curse, viteaz in lupta, stiind a se folosi cu dibacie de o victorie si a scapa cu bine dintr-o infrangere; pentru care lucruri el a fost mult timp pentru romani un potrivnic de temut

Dio Cassius



Viata asta-i bun pierdutCand n-o traiesti cum ai fi vrut!Si-acum

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George Cosbuc

George Cosbuc

(1866 - 1918)

fotografie aflata la Biblioteca Judeţeană Octavian Goga, Cluj, Fondul Emil Isac

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Cosbuc_-_Foto02.jpg)

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When it comes to Romanian literature I am very old school. Especially when it comes to poetry.


Decebal catre popor


(A Life in Books)

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Junot Diaz about Tokyo

the hip ward of Shibuya

photo: Issei Kato / Reuters-Corbis

(http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/03/20/the-city-tokyo.html)

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Cities produce love and yet feel none, says Junot Diaz, and he goes on, cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable. You never come to know everything in a city you fall in love

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Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=400932719971745&set=a.400932716638412.84357.103729003025453&type=1&theater)

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From all contemporary American authors, Junot Diaz is my favorite. He hasn't published much: Drown came in 1996, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao followed eleven years later, in 2007. He got a Pulitzer for both. This Is How

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Eine Sibylle

Sibyl, by Francesco Ubertini, cca 1525

oil on panel

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bacchiacca_004.jpg)

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Einst, vor Zeiten, nannte man sie alt.
Doch sie blieb und kam dieselbe Straße
täglich. Und man änderte die Maße,
und man zählte sie wie einen Wald

nach Jahrhunderten. Sie aber stand
jeden Abend auf derselben

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker

oil tempera on cardboard, 1906

Sammlung Ludwig Roselius, Bremen, GE

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paula_Modersohn-Becker_016.jpg)

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Fries, Rilke, Chopin (In meinem wilden Herzen)
Eine Sibylle
Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 2, XIII) 
Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 1, I) 
What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your

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Just a Bit on Indo-European and Non-Indo-European

(http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/iedocctr/ie-lg/)

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Let me speak here about this subject in the most casual manner, as I have a very different background from people specialized in language sciences. I just like the topics, that's all. There is a Romanian expression for someone who speaks about stuff that's not his hat, he heard about it in the

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The Glasses of Schubert

The Glasses of Schubert, Haus der Musik, Vienna

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A Posthumous Lithograph of Schubert
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
From Sycamore Island to Sycamore Store (The Trout)



(Old Masters)

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The Waltzes of Chopin

one of only two photographs of Chopin

(this one is rarely reproduced due to its deteriorated state)

date: 1847

posted on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita

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The first eight waltzes were published during Chopin's lifetime. Other five were published in the decade following his death. Since then, other seven waltzes have been published (from 1868 to 1932).

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Petrarca

Statue of Petrarch in Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Petrarca2.jpg)

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His real name had been Petracco, but he remained known under the Latinized form, as Petrarca. The English language countries went further, referring him as Petrarque.  I would prefer the Latinized form, as it was this way I firstly heard about

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Vado ben spesso cangiando loco

(http://www.veengle.com/s/Vado%20ben%20spesso%20cangiando%20loco.html)

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Vado ben spesso
cangiando loco;
ma non so mai
cangiar desio.

Sempre l'istesso
sara' il mio foco
e saro' sempre
l'istesso anch'io.

vado ben spesso
cangiando loco;
ma non so mai
cangiar desio.

(http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=73822)



A small poem with unknown

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A Musical Dynasty: the Bononcini's

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Bononcini

Italian Baroque composer and cellist

(1670 - 1747)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Battista_Bononcini.png)

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Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Per la gloria d'adorarvi

aria from opera Griselda (1722)

Joan Sutherland

(video by ioSonoCallas)







Giovanni Battista Bononcini: Sonata I in A minor for

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Two Self-Portraits of Salvator Rosa

oil on canvas, cca. 1645

National Gallery, London, UK

presented by the 6th Marquis of Lansdowne in memory of his father, 1933

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_by_Salvator_Rosa.jpg)

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Two self-portraits of Salvator Rosa, both painted in the same period. The first one has the title Philosophy, and carries a Latin inscription: AVT TACE AVT

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Missionary Baroque

Andrea Pozzo, Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits

(http://rubensgallery.org/painting-Andrea%20Pozzo-Allegory%20of%20the%20Missionary%20Work%20of%20the%20Jesuits-40520.htm)

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The so-called Missionary Baroque is the musical repertoire once played in the Jesuit Missions from Latin America. They had a very short history on that continent, as the

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo at the age of sixty

a portrait by Jacopino del Conte, cca. 1535

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo-Buonarroti1.jpg)

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage. Deuxième année: Italie (Il Pensieroso)




(Old Masters)


(A Life in Books)

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Frank Cadogan Cowper: Lucretia Borgia

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI
by Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1908-1914
oil on canvas

Tate Collection

(Acquisition Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1914)

(http://theinimitablephillips.blogspot.com/2011/10/lucretia-borgia-reigns-in-vatican-in.html)

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This is a re-creation of an obscure and scandalous

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Gentile da Fabriano: Playing the Organ

Music: Playing the Organ

Fresco by Gentile da Fabriano

Hall of the Liberal Arts and of the Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italy

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PalazzoTrinci011.jpg)

(posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita)

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L'orgue est une cosmogonie. D'ici ses résonances métaphysiques. Dans l'orgue, l'absolu est interprété par lui-même (

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Gentile da Fabriano

Pseudo-Arabic script in the Virgin Mary's halo

(the script is further divided by rosettes like those on Mamluk dishes,executed in pastiglia)

detail of Adoration of the Magi

by Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 – 1427)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gentile_da_Fabriano_015.jpg)

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Not only was Gentile da Fabriano Italy's outstanding representative of the

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The Last of the Pre-Raphaelites: Frank Cadogan Cowper

How the Devil, disguised as a vagrant Troubadour, having been entertained by some charitable nuns, sang to them a song of love

painted by Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877 - 1958) in 1907

oil on canvas prepared with gesso

posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita

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The scene represents the interior of a convent refectory, with a door leading into the

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The Latta House in Prairie Grove, Arkansas

posted on Facebook by Civil War Trust

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The Latta House, a witness of the Battle of Prairie Grove in 1862 - on December 7th it will be the 150th anniversary.

For Blake Whitley, it reminds of his great-great grandfather, who lost his arm to a canon ball in that fierce struggle. For Donna Head Martin, the view of this house calls sweet memories: time ago, a

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Leconte de Lisle: Les Montreurs

Montreurs d'ours, dans Lecture pour tous (1908)

(http://filsduvent.kazeo.com/po%C3%A9sie-nomade/leconte-de-lisle-remont%C3%A9-contre-les-montreurs,a485553.html)

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Tel qu'un morne animal, meurtri, plein de poussière,

La chaîne au cou, hurlant au chaud soleil d'été,

Promène qui voudra son coeur ensanglanté,

Sur ton pavé cynique, ô plèbe carnassière !

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Bach: Mass in B minor BWV232

Bach: Messe in h-Moll (Credo). Manuskript
(Mass in B minor, BWV232)
image posted on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita

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Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 - part 1/2

(video by lutherania)






Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232 - part 2/2

(video by lutherania)



(The B A C H motif)

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Self-portrait
1506

oil on panel

Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_00.jpg)

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The liberality with which Heaven now and again unites in one person the inexhaustible riches of its treasures and all those graces and rare gifts which are usually shared among many over a long period is seen in

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage. Première année: Suisse

image of Wilhelm Tell's Chapel

(http://notesfromapianist.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/to-franz-liszt-letter-from-a-traveller/)

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Having recently traveled to many new countries, through different settings and places consecrated by history and poetry; having felt that the phenomena of nature and their attendant sights did not pass before my eyes as pointless

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Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Orchestral Version

Composed in 1847 and dedicated to Count László Teleki (a Hungarian writer and statesman), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 was first published as a piano solo in 1851. Its immediate success and popularity on the concert stage soon led to an orchestrated version. The composer arranged also a piano duet version in 1874.


(wiki)






Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
orchestral version, with Herbert von

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The Sovereigns of Europe by 1867

Sovereigns of Europe

date: cca. 1867

posted on Facebook by Mr. Alexandru Ursu-Bukowina

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top row, from left to right:
King Christian IX of Denmark, King William I of Prussia (Emperor of Germany from 1871), Emperor Napoleon III of France, Czar Alexander II of Russia, Sultan Abdülaziz of Turkey.

second row top to bottom, from left to right:
King Charles XV

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Leconte de Lisle: Le Cœur de Hialmar

a painting by Jean Delville

(http://www.poetes.com/parnassiens/ll_coeur.htm)

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Chant du Mort de Hialmar
A Upsal, dans la demeure du Josur, bien des jarls boivent joyeusement la  bière, bien des jarls échangent de vives paroles ; moi, je suis dans cette ile, frappé par la pointe de glaive.
La blanche fille de Hialmar m’a suivi à Aguafik, au-delà des écueils

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Xavier Marmier

Xavier Marmier (1808-1892)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xavier_Marmier.jpg)

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A French author with a passion for travel, and with a love for writing about his journeys - to continuously deepen his knowledge on the people and culture of places he was visiting (and to share this knowledge through his writings). After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium

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Gustave Léonhard de Jonghe: Music Lesson

Gustave Léonhard de Jonghe, Music Lesson

oil on canvas

posted on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita
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Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (alias: Gustaaf de Jonghe): (b Kortrijk, Belgium, 1829; d Antwerp, Belgium, 1893) Belgian painter. Jongh was a painter and a watercolorist of figures and genera scenes. He started his artistic training with his father, Jean-Baptist

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Ciocarlia

(http://www.ask.com/wiki/Common_Skylark)

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Am primit prin eMail un dar superb dela buna mea prietena Marina Shalmon: un video in care Ciocarlia este cantata de mai multi artisti de ieri si de azi, din diferite tari, de-a lungul si de-a latul Pamantului.

Stiam ca a fost compusa de Anghelus Dinicu, primul reprezentant al unei vestite familii de artisti, de

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Tres Palabras

(http://www.librodearena.com/blog/blog?&total=40&nombre=aum&idBlog=6810&page=5)

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Oye la confesión de mi secreto
Nace de un corazón
Que esta desierto

Con tres palabras
Te diré todas las cosas
Cosas del corazón
Que son preciosas
Dame tus manos, ven
Toma las mías
Que te voy a confiar
Las ansias mías

Son tres palabras
Solamente mis angustias
Y esas palabras

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Easy Rider

credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest

(http://glo.msn.com/relationships/glo-back-1969-8380.gallery?photoId=111065#!stackState=0__%2Frelationships%2Fglo-back-1969-8380.gallery%3FphotoId%3D111066)

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Two hippie bikers set out to discover the real America and wind up taking the ultimate bad trip. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson star in the landmark

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LIFE IS WUNDERBAR

LIFE IS WUNDERBAR (1992)

a film made by Wolfgang Held and Volker Euler

(video by heldrap)


1992 humorous short film by Wolfgang Held and Volker Euler about their love-hate relationship with Sydney, Australia, as young German travelers. Title song, Life is Wunderbar, written and performed by the 2 filmmakers.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DvISx32k8)

It is an unexpected gem, this 14-

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Pola Rapaport at the Sarajevo Film Festival

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=416929921692460&set=a.110297582355697.18111.100001263662279&type=1&theater)

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Pola Rapaport was invited at the 2012 Sarajevo Film Festival, as a mentor in a workshop called Rough Cut Boutique. Five films from the Balkan region were chosen for mentorship in the editing stage. The group gave constructive comments to

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Leconte de Lisle: Le Dernier Dieu

(http://www.audiocite.net/livres-audio-gratuits-poesies/leconte-de-lisle-le-dernier-dieu.html)

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Bien au-delà des Jours, des Ans, multipliés,

Du vertige des Temps dont la fuite est sans trêve,

Voici ce que j’ai vu, dans l’immuable rêve

Qui me hante, depuis les songes oubliés.



J’errais, seul, sur la Terre. Et la Terre était nue,

L’ancien gémissement

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Georges Méliès: Le Mélomane (1903)

(http://www.wwangle.com/blog/tag/georges-melies/)

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Méliès was a true genius and pioneer in the craft of making films. With his incredible sense of humor and curiosity, the imagination of audiences could explore regions never before envisioned. Being a true student of the technology of the time, he set a standard for special effects which holds up, even in

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Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès, ca 1890

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Melies.jpg)

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Magicien de profession, Georges Méliès décida de devenir réalisateur suite à la découverte du cinématographe. Cependant, si ses premiers court-métrages n'étaient que des imitation des films des frères Lumière, Méliès, suite à son installation au studio de Montreuil, commença à

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A Holy Angel

image posted on Facebook by Poiematike

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sfantul inger. arabesc si lautar,
din adancimi din Iran. Il cunoasteti?
nu? pictura asta exista intr-o moschee din
Tadjikistan.

(Poiematike)

a Holy Angel, Arab? and musician?

a dervish? coming from the deepness of Iran?

his image does exist, it is in one place,

a mosque, and it is in Tajikistan.


(Sufi)


(

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1939, Near Oklahoma-City

image posted on Facebook by Edelina Stoian

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Old Mail Stuff

image posted on Facebook by Edelina Stoian

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(America viewed by Americans)

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Jacques Prévert: Pour Faire le Portrait d'un Oiseau

(http://cm2marcy.blogspot.com/2011/03/creations-poetiques-la-maniere-de.html)

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Peindre d'abord une cage
avec une porte ouverte
peindre ensuite
quelque chose de joli
quelque chose de simple
quelque chose de beau
quelque chose d'utile
pour l'oiseau
placer ensuite la toile contre un arbre
dans un jardin
dans un bois
ou dans une forêt
se cacher derrière

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Joris Ivens: Power and the Land

Shooting of one scene

(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/huffman/frontier/power.html)

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A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

(imdb)





Power and the Land, 1940

(video by PublicResourceOrg)


I consider Joris Ivens
a great poet of the quotidian, but here comes another vein of him: a
fascination

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Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples

Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples

(http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/masters-of-mercy/)

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From 1854 until his death in 1863, Japanese artist Kano Kazunobu (1816-1863) labored to produce one hundred paintings depicting the miraculous interventions and superhuman activities of the five hundred disciples of the Buddha. The project was

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An Interview of Wolfgang Held

Wolfgang Held

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151348896164465&set=a.10150850171464465.527512.732224464&type=1&theater)

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An interview given by Wolfgang Held to ICG Magazine. He's speaking about his background, and his first movies. The guy cinematographed greatly some documentaries, and also some features. I met him firstly in Bucharest: he was

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Jacques Prévert: Il pleut

Illustration: Josephine Wall
(http://www.paperblog.fr/3611722/il-jacques-prevert/)

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Il pleut il pleut
Il fait beau
Il fait du soleil
Il est tot
Il se fait tard
Il
Il
Il
Il
Toujours il
Toujours il qui pleut et qui neige
Toujours il qui fait du soleil
Toujours il
Pourquoi pas elle?
Jamais elle
Pourtent elle aussi
Souvent se fait belle!


This was the first

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Leconte de Lisle: Aux Modernes

Leconte de Lisle, alors bibliothécaire du Sénat et qui devait faire peur aux enfants, 1877

[Leconte de Lisle, then librarian of the Senate, supposed to scare children]

(http://le-bibliomane.blogspot.com/2012/06/un-siecle-de-gloire-francaise-dans.html)

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Vous vivez lâchement, sans rêve, sans dessein,
Plus vieux, plus décrépits que la terre inféconde,

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Girlhood of Mary Virgin

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, 1848-1849

oil on canvas

Tate Britain

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rossetti_girlhood.jpg)

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et ait Maria magnificat anima mea Dominumet exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meoquia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationesquia fecit mihi magna qui

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Regina Maria - 74 ani de la trecerea in nefiinta

imagine publicata pe Facebook de catre Alexandru Ursu-Bukowina

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Te binecuvantez, iubita Romanie, tara bucuriilor si durerilor mele, frumoasa tara, care ai trait in inima mea si ale carei carari le-am cunoscut toate. Frumoasa tara pe care am vazut-o intregita, a carei soarta mi-a fost ingaduit sa o vad implinita. Fii tu vesnic imbelsugata, fii tu mare si

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Leconte de Lisle: Paysage Polaire

(http://www.ledixvinsblog.fr/article-printemps-des-poetes-d-infinis-paysages-lecomte-de-lisle-paysage-polaire-68353365.html)

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Un monde mort, immense écume de la mer,

Gouffre d'ombre stérile et de lueurs spectrales,

Jets de pics convulsifs étirés en spirales

Qui vont éperdument dans le brouillard amer.



Un ciel rugueux, roulant par blocs, un âpre

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Jean-François Millet: a Portrait of Leconte de Lisle

Jean-François Millet: a Portrait of Leconte de Lisle
(http://hoocher.com/Jean_Francois_Millet/Jean_Francois_Millet.html)

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Leconte de Lisle was born on the island of Réunion. His father, an army surgeon, who brought him up with great severity, sent him to travel in the East Indies with a view to preparing him for a commercial life. After this voyage he went

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Leconte de Lisle

Leconte de Lisle

portrait by Jacques-Léonard Blanquier, 1885

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leconte_Blanquer.JPG)

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In Leconte de Lisle the Parnassian movement seems to crystallize. His verse is clear, sonorous, dignified, deliberate in movement, classically correct in rhythm, full of exotic local color, of savage names, of realistic rhetoric.


(wiki

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ecce Ancilla Domini

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Ecce Ancilla Domini, 1850

oil on canvas

Tate Britain

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rossetti_Annunciation.jpg)

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dixit autem Maria ad angelum quomodo fiet istud quoniam virum non cognoscoet respondens angelus dixit ei Spiritus Sanctus superveniet in te et virtus Altissimi obumbrabit tibi ideoque et quod nascetur sanctum

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Jean-François Millet: L'Angélus

Jean-François Millet: L'Angélus, 1857–1859

oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_%28II%29_001.jpg)

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Two peasants stop their daily work and remain in devotion while the voice of the bell is calling for the ancient prayer.



Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ
Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto

Ecce Ancilla

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An He: Melody Pause

An He: Melody Pause

(http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/an-he-painter)

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(An He)

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An He

An He in front of one of his works

(http://www.slideshare.net/Nubiagroup/an-he-painter)

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His style reminds the works of Sargent. An He (Hans Amis) is a figurative artist, and the main topics of his paintings are elegantly dressed women caught in a pensive moment. A musical instrument is often at hand, and the setting is a great interior or a garden,

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Albert Bierstadt: In the Sierras, 1868

Albert Bierstadt: In the Sierras, 1868
oil on canvas
Fogg Museum of Art
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Bierstadt_001.jpg)
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(Albert Bierstadt)


(Fogg Museum of Art)

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Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt

photo by Napoleon Sarony

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bierstadt.jpg)

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Albert Bierstadt belonged to the generation of pioneers, together with Thomas Moran, and the art history retained them both in the Hudson River School.

Bierstadt was the painter of American West. He traveled several times Westward in long journeys and came back

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Napoleon Sarony

Napoleon Sarony, Self-Portrait

undated

source: Broadway Photographs

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SaronySelfPortrait.jpg)

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He was a great portrait photographer, eccentric in his personal tastes and loving to be outlandishly dressed, and he left us a universe of images comprising General Sherman, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde.


The Photo of Albert

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Fogg Museum of Art

Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, MA
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fogg_Art_Museum,_Harvard_University.jpg)

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It is the oldest art museum of Harvard, and it has serious collections of Italian Renaissance, Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, among others.

The image above, on Quincy Street, in Georgian-revival style,dates from 1925.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel, 1871-1878
oil on canvas
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_The_Blessed_Damozel.jpg)
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The Blessed Damozel is perhaps the best known creation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is a diptych, as it puts in dialog painting and poetry: a poem recited by a

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Marie Spartali Stillman: Girl Playing Music

(http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2012/05/girl-playing-music-marie-spartali.html)

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(Marie Spartali Stillman)

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Marie Spartali Stillman: a Portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Marie Spartali Stillman

a portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti.jpg)

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She was arguably the greatest female artist in the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

And she was a great beauty. When Swinburne met her for the first time, he was so overcome that he exclaimed, she is so beautiful that I want to sit down and

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Self-Portrait, 1847

pencil and white chalk on paper
National Portrait Gallery, London
(http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=857&eDate=&lDate=)

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He was eighteen, and a student at the Royal Academy, when he drew this self-portrait. It captures the rebellious and highly romantic self-image which he

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Winslow Homer - The Turtle Pond (1898)

Winslow Homer - The Turtle Pond, 1898
watercolor
Brooklyn Museum
(http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=778)

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Winslow Homer does not stop to amaze me with each of his paintings that I come across. He has in his art a dimension that I could name, well, Homeric! I mean, unexpectedly powerful and modern sometimes, when you would have expected (as

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Wagner at Teatro San Carlo

The Flying Dutchman at Teatro San Carlo, Naples, IT

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151027297492342&set=a.316402232341.151803.269288422341&type=1&theater)

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2013 will be Richard Wagner Year. Teatro San Carlo will have The Flying Dutchman, with the scenography signed by Valerio Adami.

The music of Wagner in the settings of Adami: an Italian

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Meadowlands

Meadowlands seen from Route 7
showing at least four different species of waterfowl

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Meadowlands_NJ_late_summer.jpg)

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As soon as the train leaves New York City and enters New Jersey the Meadowlands come into picture: a huge wetland crossed by Hackensack and Passaic rivers, plus other creeks, that divide themselves in all

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Sad Soul

published on Facebook by Suflet Trist

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Long time no one played on it anymore. The Maestro had passed away, and the old piano could not accommodate with any other human. They bought new furniture and there was no more place for the piano in the room. And one day it was moved in the garden where it was housing flower pots and slowly was integrating into some

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How To Choose Your Instrument

Sine Musica Nulla Vita

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350020448404693&set=a.295639220509483.68313.262732990466773&type=1&theater)

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Click on the image to enlarge



(Old Masters)

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David's Dance Party: A Midsummer Worship Call

Barbara Griffiths: David's Dance

(http://www.textweek.com/art/david_dancing.htm)

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And David danced before the LORD with all his might

2 Samuel 6:14 King James Bible (Cambridge Edition)


I have got an email from Pastor David, the minister at Clarendon Presbyterian Church (a community progressive, inclusive, diverse). It is his weekly call for worship,

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A Portrait of Chopin

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
(watercolor brush by Maria Wodzińska, 1835)

watercolor and ink on bristol board

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie

(http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plik:Chopin,_by_Wodzinska.JPG&filetimestamp=20100714082648)

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Thee portrait was painted by then-16-year-old Maria Wodzińska (1819-96). The artist and her sitter became engaged

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