On December 27th...
537 – The Hagia Sophia is completed.
1737 – William Bowyer, English printer, dies.
1743 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter, dies.
1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
1832 – Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art, is born.
1834 – Charles Lamb, English essayist, dies.
1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist, is born.
1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect, dies.
Well Said
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. "
Rudyard Kipling
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December 27th, 2011
Madame Gaudibert on the Beach at Etretat
By Claude Monet
Madame Gaudibert
1868
Oil on canvas
Louvre, Paris
Rough Sea at Etretat
c. 1868
Oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
On the Beach at Trouville
1870
Oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan, Paris
Bel Ami (1885)
After changing his five-franc piece Georges Duroy left the restaurant. He twisted his mustache in military style and cast a rapid, sweeping glance upon the diners, among whom were three saleswomen, an untidy music-teacher of uncertain age, and two women with their husbands.
When he reached the sidewalk, he paused to consider what route he should take. It was the twenty-eighth of June and he had only three francs in his pocket to last him the remainder of the month. That meant two dinners and no lunches, or two lunches and no dinners, according to choice. As he pondered upon this unpleasant state of affairs, he sauntered down Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, preserving his military air and carriage, and rudely jostled the people upon the streets in order to clear a path for himself. He appeared to be hostile to the passers-by, and even to the houses, the entire city.
Tall, well-built, fair, with blue eyes, a curled mustache, hair naturally wavy and parted in the middle, he recalled the hero of the popular romances.
It was one of those sultry, Parisian evenings when not a breath of air is stirring; the sewers exhaled poisonous gases and the restaurants the disagreeable odors of cooking and of kindred smells. Porters in their... more
Mendelssohn's Red Violin
(13:27)..
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - I. Allegro molto appassionato
Fulda Symphonic Orchestra
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(8:03)..
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - II. Andante
Fulda Symphonic Orchestra
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(6:52)..
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - III. Allegro molto vivace
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Venus and Adonis
EVEN as the sun with purple-colour'd face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase;
Hunting he loved, but love he laugh'd to scorn;
Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him,
And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him.
'Thrice-fairer than myself,' thus she began,
'The field's chief flower, sweet above compare,
Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man, 10
More white and red than doves or roses are;
Nature that made thee, with herself at strife,
Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.
'Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,
And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;
If thou wilt deign this favour, for thy meed... more
Today's Gesamtkunstwerk
Carter Burwell's poignant piece "The Trial of Ed Crane" from the soundtrack of The Man Who Wasn't There.
Did You Know?
Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, and William Shakespeare died on the same day in the same year, that is, on April 24th, 1616.
Chasing Erudition
iconoclast
ahy-kon-uh-klast
Function: n
Definition: a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration.
Etymology: French iconoclaste, from Medieval Greek eikonoklastēs, smasher of religious images : eikono-, icono- + Greek -klastēs, breaker (from Greek klān, klas-, to break)
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