Alfred Morgan: An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus

Alfred Morgan: An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus,

Mr Gladstone Traveling with Ordinary Passengers

oil on canvas, 1885

(http://www.artnet.com/artists/alfred-morgan/an-omnibus-ride-to-piccasilly-circus-mr-gladstone-7Jcu-V-_ij5FumsOb0JHDQ2)

(also published on Facebook by Belle Époque Europe)

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Va recomand sa cititi Marea Britanie si Unirea

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Henri Fantin-Latour: Un atelier aux Batignolles

Henri Fantin-Latour: Un atelier aux Batignolles, 1870

oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Fantin-Latour_006.jpg)

(also published on Facebook by Belle Époque Europe)

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Les Batignolles was the district where Manet and many of the future Impressionists lived. Fantin-Latour, a quiet observer of this period, has

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Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess

(shared from the Facebook page dedicated to Marcel Duchamp)

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(Avangarda 20)

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F. W. Murnau: Sunrise (1927)

Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien in a scene from Sunrise

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F._W._Murnau-Sunrise-Gaynor_and_O%27Brien_on_Farm.jpg)

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I hadn't watched the movie till last night. I was wondering whether it
had stood the test of time. Also I had read the plot and it seemed to me
naive. Well, I can tell you that Sunrise is an amazing movie,

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Luis Garcia Berlanga ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! (1953)

(http://tetuan.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha55233_37_1.htm)

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The little village of Villar del Río is awaiting the song performance of Carmen Vargas (Lolita Sevilla), 'The Great Andalusian Star'. The quiet village is governed by a deaf, naughty and good-natured Mayor (José Isbert in an uforgettable role), who's only seeking the way to give life to the

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JFK and little Caroline

JFK and little Caroline

Washington, DC, late 1950's

(posted on Facebook by il piccolo istrione)

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(Zoon Politikon)

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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)

(http://forum.foreignmoviesddl.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12923)

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A movie based on a real story. In 1906, Wilhelm Voigt was freed from prison, where he had spent most of his life. First time he had been imprisoned when he was fourteen, for a minor theft, and then the small or not so small thefts and successive convictions

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F. W. Murnau

F.W. Murnau shooting a film in 1920

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F_W_Murnau_01.jpg)

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One of the great names in the history of cinema, F. W. Murnau left us with such amazing films as Nosferatu, or Der Letzte Mann, Faust or Sunrise.  His works filter influences from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen (wiki).


Nosferatu (1922)
Sunrise (

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Juan Antonio Bardem: Calle Mayor (1956)

Calle Mayor, 1956

Spanish theatrical release poster

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

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Calle Mayor, the Main Street... First time I watched this movie sometime in the 1960s or 1970s. It was one evening, we were at home the whole family, and together with us there was a close friend of my parents, an aged lady, distinguished and very nice

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Greg Gandy - Morning Light on California Street

Greg Gandy - Morning Light on California Street

oil on panel

on view at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

(shared from Facebook via Principle Gallery)

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(Principle Gallery)

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La Cumparsita, Otra Vez

El Tango y Sus Invitados

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This time the tango is played by a boy of eleven, Julio Silpitucla. He is not only good at guitar, no, he's crazily good. Said one listener, before I considered playing the guitar. After seeing this boy, I realized that my place would be rather selling freaking hot-dogs.





(video by abelucho2)



(La Cumparsita)

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The Two Foundations

(published on Facebook by SF Swedenborgian Church)

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De aceea, oricine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele şi la îndeplineşte asemăna-se-va bărbatului înţelept care a clădit casa lui pe stâncă. A căzut ploaia, au venit râurile mari, au suflat vânturile şi au bătut în casa aceea, dar ea n-a căzut, fiindcă era întemeiată pe stâncă. Iar oricine aude aceste cuvinte

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Scott Bartner: Reclining Nude with Japanese Screen

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6402)

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Scott E. Bartner started a career in finances while being attracted by painting. After a few years he decided to remain totally in the world of art.



{Principle Gallery)

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Jorge-Alberto: A Collector's Item

Jorge-Alberto, A Collector's Item

oil on panel

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6603)

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{Principle Gallery)

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Jorge-Alberto: Becoming a Doctor

Jorge-Alberto, Becoming a Doctor

oil on panel

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6174)

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You have here everything: drama of light (that obsess Jorge-Alberto), technique of deception (another obsession of the artist), magical realism (in good Latin-American tradition), macabre humor (celebrating death is a way to conceive eternity). I

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A Story with Cupboards and Waterwheels

Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholars

oil on panel, 1901

(Washington Times, Orientalist art’s reversal of fortune)

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(click here for the Romanian version)


All started from a painting by Ludwig Deutsch, showing three Arab scholars in front of an elegant built-in bookcase. A work from 1901, carying the title The Scholars. It impressed me, and it called in my mind

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O Poveste cu Dulapi si Dulapuri

Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholars

oil on panel, 1901

(Washington Times, Orientalist art’s reversal of fortune)

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(click here for the English version)

Totul a inceput dela o pictura a lui Ludwig Deutsch, infatisand trei carturari arabi aflati in fata unei biblioteci zidite in perete. O pictura din anul 1901, intitulata Carturarii. Mi-a placut mult (

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My Granddaughter Daria in the Skiing Class

The Gang of Four. Daria is the first on the left.




(Lexington)

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Portrait of the Duke as a Young Man

Hans Mielich: Youth Portrait of Duke Albert V

(Jugendbild des Herzog Albrecht V. von Bayern)

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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

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(Hans Mielich)

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The Chess Play from Munich

Hans Mielich

Duke Albert V of Bavaria and his consort Anna of Austria playing chess

1552

Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

(http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2011/03/patron-saint-of-chess.html)

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Duke Albert V of Bavaria was a generous patron of the arts and an assiduous collector of Greek,

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Hans Mielich

Hans Mielich, Selbstporträt

oder Bildnis eines unbekannten Zeitgenossen

ca.1550

(http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Hans_Mielich.jpg&filetimestamp=20071109215552)

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A master of the Late Renaissance, Hans Mielich (also known as Muelich, or Müelich) was born in Munich in 1516 (the date is actually not documented; it was deduced from one of his

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Makar Sankranthi

(http://www.magicalmumbai.com/1807/makar-sankranti-kite-flying-festival/)

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This coming Monday the Sun enters the Makara rashi, it's time for harvest and for joy. I looked a little bit into a dictionary where I find always many things, in Wikipedia.

They call it मकर संक्रान्ति in Hindi and Sanskrit. In Bengali, the language of Tagore and of Satyajit Ray,

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Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, 1930

(http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/movie/detail/-/art/Die-Drei-von-der-Tankstelle-1930/hnum/2182867)

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Three friends get suddenly broke and loose everything except optimism. So they take a run-down filling station and start working in shifts. It happens that a young lady begins to come there every day, always finding another one of

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Ludwig Deutsch: Sharia El Sanadkyeh

Ludwig Deutsch: Sharia El Sanadkyeh

oil painting

private collection

(http://www.famous-artists.net/sharia-el-sanadkyeh/)

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Probably in 1883, and more certainly in 1886, 1890, and 1898, Deutsch traveled to Egypt. Orientalist subject matter dominated his artwork from this time forward, and earned him unprecedented praise. In 1900, Deutsch received a gold

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Ludwig Deutsch: The Scholars

Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholars

oil on panel, 1901

(Washington Times, Orientalist art’s reversal of fortune)

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Three young ‘ulama contemplate illuminated manuscripts of various kinds. They each wear the typical imamah, or turban, of their respected station: this consisted of a taqiyah, or close-fitting cap, red cloth tarboosh (distinguished by its black

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Ludwig Deutsch: The Chess Game

Ludwig Deutsch, The Chess Game

oil on panel, 1896

private collection

(http://www.paintingsclassic.com/chess_game_paintings.html)

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चतुरङ्ग (chaturanga), the ancestor of all chess-like games, is thought to have been developed around 1,600 years ago by an Indian philosopher. Since then it has spread across the globe, and evolved into several distinct forms

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Ludwig Deutsch

Ludwig Deutsch, The Palace Guard

oil painting, 1892

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Deutsch-_The_Palace_Guard.jpg)

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Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1936) was born in Vienna, in a well-established Jewish family. His father was a financier at the Austrian court. He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, then moved to Paris where he became

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Doua Poezii de Anton Naum

ceas de aur ce a apartinut junimistului Anton Naum

(Muzeul Literaturii Romane, Iasi - Casa Vasile Pogor)

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Elegie



A patriei jignite afronturi sa razbuni,Sa curatesti de monstri cu bratul inarmatSi de tiranii lacomi pamantul uzurpat!Sa fii atotputernic! La glasul tau ce tunaCum s-au plecat in codri stejarii de furtuna,Sau cum sa incovoaie, plapand si

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Tabor is Returning

(http://rest.vl.ru/fesco-hall/event/498)

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Do you remember Табор уходит в небо (Tabor ukhodit v nebo)? It was a great movie, made by Emil Loteanu in 1976. Svetlana Toma was starring there, and the English title of the movie was given after her: The Queen of the Gypsies. Eugen Doga created the music for this film: a great score! And I would not forget to

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Alfonso X the Wise: The Book of Games

The Game of Astronomical Tables

illustration from the Book of Games

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfonso_LJ_97V.jpg)

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El Libro de los Juegos (The Book of Games), known also as El Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas (The book of Chess, Dice and Tables) was written in the thirteen century. There was a king, Alfonso X the Wise of Castile, León, and

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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: The Chess Players

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: Kurfürst Johann Friedrich von Sachsen in der Gefangenschaft beim Schachspiel mit einem spanischen Bewacher

(Elector John Frederick of Saxony in captivity playing chess with a Spanish guard)

oil on canvas, 1548

Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig

(http://www.tabladeflandes.com/frank_mayer/frank_mayer144.html)

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I found the image

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Two Paintings by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

(http://www.codart.nl/exhibitions/details/1467/)

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Two paintings by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen were restored and subjected to an intensive examination in the Frans Hals Museum. These were Cardinal Érard de la Marck (owned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) and The Holy Family (owned by Instituut Collectie Nederland, a Dutch heritage organisation, on loan to the

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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: Venus Española

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: Venus Española

etching, 1545

British Museum
(published on Faceboook by Veterodoxia)

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A Spanish feast; on the left a courtesan is embracing a man and at the same time robbing his purse; on the right, at the end of the table, a man pokes fingers into his inflated cheeks with a youth looking up at him between his legs; an old man,

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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (c.1500–1559)

engraving, by Jan Wierix

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Wierix_004.jpg)

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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, or Jan Mayo, or Barbalonga, a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter and tapestry designer, probably a pupil of Jan Mabuse. About 1525 he became a court painter to Margaret of Austria,

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1927 - FDNY Ride Along with Chief Kenlon

New motor fire engine, New York City, and Chief Kenlon

George Grantham Bain Collection

no date recorded on caption card (probably between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915)

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

(http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003688502/)

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John Kenlon was one of the chiefs of FDNY (Fire

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Hans Moser: Meine Tochter lebt in Wien

Hans Moser in Meine Tochter lebt in Wien, 1940
no copyright infringement intended(http://www.wolfgang-siska.at/popup_image.php?pID=3344)


Finally I found this movie on youTube, to put it here and to let you enjoy with it. I'm so happy! I told you about it in my first post dedicated to Hans Moser. It has been the only movie with this great actor that I saw in a theatre.





Meine Tochter lebt

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The Bogdan Glosses

Ioan Bogdan (1864-1919)

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

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I heard first time about Ioan Bogdan while in high school: our history teacher quoted him to stress out the importance of the Slavonic factor in the evolution of Romanian language. The teacher explained us on that occasion that besides its origin

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Sergiu Nicolaescu

Sergiu Nicolaescu in rolul Comisarului Miclovan

(http://ipmeu.ro/blog/gaming/sergiu-nicolaescu-10-imagini-memorabile-din-viata-sa-galerie-foto/)

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Acum doua zile, in seara din ajunul Anului Nou am vazut la televizor un film de demult, Nea Mărin Miliardar, o comedie regizata de Sergiu Nicolaescu in 1979. Jucau acolo toti marii actori pe care ii stiam, Amza

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Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

watercolor by James Warren Childe, 1829

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

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Mendelssohn: Ave Maria for Soloist and 8-part chorus Op.23 No.2

00:11 : Ave Maria (Andante)

02:48 : Sancta Maria (Con moto)

04:50 : Ave Maria (Andante)

Hervé Lamy (tenor)

Ensemble Vocal de La Chapelle

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

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

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My first encounter with the music of Verdi was Aida. It was a movie made in 1953, a performance of the great opera, with Sophia Loren playing the lead role, while the voice was of Renata Tebaldi. There was

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We Enter the New Year 2013

(published on Facebook by Sam Carlo)

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We enter the New Year 2013, looking for our place in the whole Universe, dreaming at wonderful worlds to settle and to live at the fullest. With this in our minds, we are traveling like a bottle in the Cosmic Ocean, a bottle keeping our message for new civilizations to know us and be known by us.

(A Life in Books)

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