View of the beach at Bellangenai
View of the beach at Bellangenai
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View of the beach at Bellangenai
View of the beach at Bellangenai
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Gertrude Stein hanging out with the Cone sisters.
Thank you for your bucolic posts, dear Bibliophiles!
See you next week on #BookologyThursday
art by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1767)
In October 1888, Gauguin arrived in Arles in southern France, where Vincent van Gogh was already staying. Throughout the autumn, the two artists lived and worked together. Tension arose and grew between them, leading to the dramatic crisis when van Gogh cut off part of his ear after a vicious quarrel. In his landscapes from Arles, such as this one, Gauguin depicts nature as decorative fields of colour without any illusion of depth. Some sections are enigmatic – note, for instance, the shadow cast by the dog in the corner!
Landscape from Arles
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Tennessee Williams
I'm enjoying Leighton Pugh's audiobook of 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. He uses the 1864 translation by R. Dillon Boylan, which captures Goethe's tone and diction to a surprising degree:
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The Window
The Window, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16103
Album cover Painting of a marching band musician with a tuba
The 1958 Philips recording of Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera featured a Ben Shahn painting on the cover.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Zm...
Weill with his pipe; Lenya leaning against the table-top
Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya
A marvellous portrait by Louise Dahl-Wolfe, from 1935
The two were married from 1926 until Weill's death in 1950, with a divorce time-out from 1933-37.
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View of the Catskills over the frozen Hudson
Submissions open March 1. Send us your strongest poems and be part of the next issue!
Victor Hugo, considéré comme le père du romantisme, est né le 26 février 1802. Il a su accepter les malheurs de sa vie pour les transformer en une expérience existentielle et saisir les valeurs et les nuances de l'âme humaine.
Sudden and magnificent, the sun’s broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them;
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Annie Soudain #WyrdWednesday
Hook Mountain, Nyack - 1899
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Hans Hoffmann, A Hare in the Forest, about 1585. (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Roman mosaic fragment of a cockerel from Italy. Dating to around 100 BC, the fragment is part of the collections at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday
23 Feb 1663: John Dryden's first play 'The English Gallant' is performed at Court #otd
This fresco, "Marriage at Cana" by Giotto di Bondone, vividly captures the biblical scene where Jesus performs his first miracle of turning water into wine. Painted in the Scrovegni Chapel, it showcases Giotto's innovative use of perspective and emotional expression, marking a significant moment in early Renaissance art.
Marriage at Cana https://www.wikiart.org/en/giotto/marriage-at-cana
Frontispiece for Francis Lawrence Bickley's
"The Adventures of Harlequin"
by John Austen, 1923.
#goldenageofillustration #bookillustration
22 Feb 1572: William Byrd sworn in as gentleman of Chapel Royal #otd (British Museum)
The Prodigal Son among the Swine
Rembrandt Van Rijn, c. 1650 (British Museum)
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12866
John Coltrane and Count Basie...
it’s the birthday of one of my favorite actresses, Giulietta Masina ❤️
The Sweetness and Genius of Giulietta Masina article link: italiancinemaarttoday.blogspot.com/2020/06/fell...
h/t to @dean.bsky.social for his earlier post celebrating her!
André Kertész, Piet Mondrian in His Studio, Paris, 1926.
Casual Reading #oilpainting #art
Pastel is pigment in a stick—fragile, luminous, impossible to erase.
For the Impressionists, it was perfect for capturing fleeting sensations.
Monet used it to test perceptions too quick for oil.
In Torah Portion Terumah (תְּרוּמָה) God instructs Moses to build a Sanctuary which will contain the Ark of the Covenant.
#ParashahPictures
BL Additional 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; France, N; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.522r
Landscape in the Rain - 1890
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“If I could write all my work again, I am convinced that I’d do it better, which is the healthiest condition for an artist. That’s why he keeps on working, trying again; he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off.” —William Faulkner buff.ly/3P8LBBu