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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Juan Antonio Bardem: Muerte de un ciclista (1955)

(http://carlosparedesabad.blogcindario.com/2010/11/00215-joyas-del-cine-espanol-ciclo-de-cine-en-la-upn.html)

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A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048394/)


Juan is an academic, his career stalled, teaching at the university because

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Casian Balabasciuc: Un Colt de Cer

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3004026999570&set=a.1315380224456.40504.1829232415&type=1&theater)

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Pot fi o troita stand afara,
La care cei batrani se-nchina,
Pe cer cu silueta-i fina
Impodobind un drum de tara.

Pot fi un drum batut de care
Ce-ncepe la fantana plina
Din campul cald si se termina
Calcat de vite in picioare.

Pot fi un camp arat

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Paintings of Thomas Wilmer Dewing at Brooklyn Museum

Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Lady in Gold, cca.1912

oil on canvas

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Lady_in_Gold_-_Thomas_Wilmer_Dewing_-_overall.jpg)

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s paintings often possess an aura of mystery. It is as if the artist defies us to imagine who the women are and why they seem so otherworldly. The thick, almost hothouse

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Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum shortly before sunset on a partly cloudy day
June 3, 2008
Photo: Jim Henderson
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_June_2008_sunset_jeh.JPG)
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Paintings of Thomas Wilmer Dewing at Brooklyn Museum
Winslow Homer - The Turtle Pond (1898)
Winslow Homer, Blown Away (c.1888)
Glenn O. Coleman at Brooklyn Museum 



(New York, New

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Summer

Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Summer, circa 1890

oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of William T. Evans

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Wilmer_Dewing_-_Summer_-_ca._1890.jpg)

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(Thomas Wilmer Dewing)


(American Art and Portraiture)

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Reconfiguring Beauty: Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Thomas Wilmer Dewing - Girl with Lute (1904)

oil on wood panel

Freer Gallery of Art. Gift of Charles Lang Freer

(http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/americanart/default.htm)

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851 - 1938, born in New England, with studies at Académie Julian in Paris, lived for the most part of his life in NY) was a Tonalist artist (a style

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Lisa Lewenz recommends a film in the making: River is Remembering

(http://vimeo.com/43195145)

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Lisa Lewenz recommends River is Remembering,
an in-progress film made by Rea Tajiri.


Rea Tajiri
is a filmmaker and film educator teaching at Temple University in
Philadelphia, PA. She has made a number of documentaries that explored the psychospiritual repercussions of political histories within families (I'm quoting here

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Komsomol

Poster of Astra Film Festival - Sibiu'2004

(where Ivens' Komsomol was also presented)

(http://www.astrafilm.ro/view-from-holland.aspx?year=2004)

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Komsomol (Песнь о героях) este dedicat tinerilor voluntari din Occident, care au participat la constructia marelui combinat de la Magnitogorsk in Muntii Urali, in timpul primului cincinal al lui Stalin. Filmul

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Joris Ivens: Études de mouvements

(Bonjour Paris)

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The small, yet comfortable projection room shows a four-minute short from 1927 titled Études des mouvements à Paris by Joris Ivens. The silent film takes its name literally as viewers are shown shots of cars transversing past the Opéra Garnier and the Louvre, their tires occasionally sloshing through puddles, while policemen on horseback

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A Story Written by my Granddaughter Daria

(https://www.tonicliving.com/productsDetails.asp?categoryid=29&productid=582¤tpage=5&onsale=0)

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Dear Dog Lovers,

Do you know when you go to Paris and you think that there will be so many poodles? Well and then you find out there are only about 5 poodles in all of Paris! That is what happened to me. Everyday I walk on the street in Paris. I see labs

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La Seine a rencontré Paris

(http://grasse06130.over-blog.com/article-la-seine-a-rencontre-paris-103565216.html)

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Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver recovers a boy's lost bicycle. C'est la vie. It's a river like any other. Sprightly

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Louisiana Story

(http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/phil-hall-corporate-sponsored-films-123/)

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The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.

(imdb)

A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays,

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Robert J. Flaherty

Flaherty taking a movie, Port Harrison, QC, 1920-21

photo: Samuel Herbert Coward

Silver salts on paper mounted on paper - Gelatin silver process - 5 x 11 cm

Collection of McCord Museum
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaherty_Port_Harrison_1920.jpg)

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Twenty-Four-Dollar Island (1927)
Louisiana Story (1948)




(Filmele Avangardei)

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Quoting Goethe

(http://www.datametallogenica.com/pages/minidisc/html/rosiamontana-mapsect/page.html)

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Nach Golde drängt, Am Golde hängt Doch alles.

(Goethe: Faust)





Leipzig: Szene in Auerbachs Keller (Mephisto verzaubert die Studenten)

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

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(Goethe und Schiller)

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Goethe und Schiller

Goethe und Schiller

(http://www.goethezeitportal.de/?id=808)

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I remember the blessed days I was in Weimar: Goethe is there the spiritus loci. I visited his house, frankly I didn't like the hype. But I praise him as a god. There is also the house of Schiller there. It was closed everytime I visited Weimar. Maybe one day...

There is a garden in Weimar,

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Cristóbal de Morales

Cristóbal de Morales (1500 - 1553)
published on Facebook by Misterios e historia de Andalucía

shared by Sine musica nulla vita
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Cristóbal de Morales (Seville, 1500 - Malaga or, according to others, Marchena, 1553), together with Guerrero and Victoria, form the gold triad of the Spanish Renaissance music. No Spanish 16th century composer was so praised in

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Jacques Prévert

(http://voiceseducation.org/content/jacques-prevert)

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The photo above acknowledges the importance of the interprets for the poetry of  Jacques Prévert: the authors of songs, the authors of movies, and, I would dare to say, all the books teaching us the nowadays French, full of his poems.


Il pleut
La Seine a rencontré Paris
Pour Faire le Portrait d'un

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Jean Moscopol: Mana Birjar

(http://www.libhumanitas.ro/cantece-de-dragoste-balade-si-cuplete-anticomuniste.html)

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(video by cristigeorgescul)




(Les Troubadours du Temps Jadis)

(Bucuresti)

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A Keyboard Instrument Builder from Renaissance: Annibale del Rossi

Victoria and Albert Museum: Virginal

(Annibale del Rossi fecit 1577)

published on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita

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Cypress case and soundboard, boxwood and ivory ornaments, inlaid with pearls, amethysts, lapis lazuli, jasper, agate, turquoise and other precious and semi-precious stones.

(http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O61533/

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the Encounter of the Universe

The Dalai Lama in the Milan Cathedral
June 27, 2012

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I said, the Encounter of the Universe, because the image shows a moment when two Universes meet and we realize that all of us belong to the same Universe.


(Sufi)

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Another View of Key Bridge

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It is at the beginning of the  Capital Crescent Trail. I think those stones are what remained from an old bridge making the connection between Georgetown and Rosslyn. It is a superb place to enjoy the view of Key Bridge, and actually it is on the level of C-O Canal.

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