The last time Lina posted anything was on Nov 16, '08 at 1:38 PM,
That was exactly one year ago. I’ve done what others have done over the last couple of weeks, looked back through her posts and fallen upon something that spoke to me at the time. The post I found this time was one about the 18th century, the thing about her posts were that she actually KNEW what to write. The knowledge was hers, it was her vast and seemingly endless store of knowledge that I most admired.
My posts are usually re-hashed, second hand information taken from other sites on the net. She has prior knowledge of virtually every thing, whereas I need to look every thing up, this post is no different.
The inspiration for this came from her post which is here;
http://wickedlyinnocent.multiply.com/journal/item/389/Art_Sunday_
and the quotes for it came from here;
http://www.brainyquote.com/
the information for it came from here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
and there is much more information about all of these people to be found on these links.
I did something quite similar tho this last May on her birthday, and that's here;
http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/299/ART_SUNDAY_HAPPY_BIRTHDAY_Friday_15th_May_To_Our_Art_Loving_Friend
I did find out something interesting, the name Baroque came from Baroque pearls which are simply pearls that have an irregular shape. They have all the luster and allure of any other pearl but their shape is irregular and intricate.
On Jul 6, '08 4:26 PM she wrote;
If I lived to be eighty, there was no telling how far out of it I might eventually go; perhaps I could slip all the way back into the eighteenth century, which has always seemed to me a nice place to visit. ( from Joseph Epstein's essay Nicely Out of It)
I too love the 18th century, not only because of all the cultural diversity, but also because some of my favourite people lived their whole lives or were born within that period of time, people like Voltaire, Diderot, Fielding, Fragonard, Goethe , Jane Austen, Madame de Staël and many others.
She loved the eighteenth century and these people in particular;
François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.
Voltaire Quote; All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques the Fatalist and his Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will. Diderot is also known as the author of the dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew), upon which many articles and sermons about consumer desire have been based. His articles included many topics of the Enlightenment.
Diderot Quote; Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate.
Fielding quote;
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 5 April 1732– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. The art works on this page are his.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe Quote; All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry
Austin Quote; A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Ill not write another post for Lina, one year has passed and maybe its time to say we love you, we miss you, we’ll never forget you and good bye dear friend.
Video 18th Century European Portraits
0:09 - Thomas Gainsborough - "The Blue Boy"
0:19 - Angelica Kaufmann - "Portrait of a Woman Dressed as Vestal Virgin"
0:31 - Allan Ramsay - "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
0:44 - William Hogarth - "David Garrick with His Wife Eva-Maria Veigel"
0:58 - Jacques-Louis David - "Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thelusson, Comtesse de Sorcy"
1:11 - Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder - "Portrait of Prince Boris Golizyn"
1:24 - Francis Boucher - "Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses"
1:39 - Maurice Quentin de La Tour - "Self Portrait"
1:52 - Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes - "Portrait of Marqueza Pontejos"
2:05 - Heinrich-Friedrich Fueger - "Portrait of Franz Joseph Graf Saurau"
2:20 - Jean-Marc Nattier - "Marie Adelaide of France as Flora"
2:31 - John Singleton Copley - "Portrait of Mrs. Humphrey Devereux"
2:43 - Anton Raphael Mengs - "Self Portrait"
2:57 - Antoine Pesne - "Portrait of Maria Susanne Dinglinger"
3:11 - Joshua Reynolds - "Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards"
3:24 - Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - "Portrait of Marie Antoinette"
Music: Final Movement from Mass No. 7 in B flat major composed by Joseph Haydn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5SXMa7zx-s&feature=player_embedded#!
That was exactly one year ago. I’ve done what others have done over the last couple of weeks, looked back through her posts and fallen upon something that spoke to me at the time. The post I found this time was one about the 18th century, the thing about her posts were that she actually KNEW what to write. The knowledge was hers, it was her vast and seemingly endless store of knowledge that I most admired.
My posts are usually re-hashed, second hand information taken from other sites on the net. She has prior knowledge of virtually every thing, whereas I need to look every thing up, this post is no different.
The inspiration for this came from her post which is here;
http://wickedlyinnocent.multiply.com/journal/item/389/Art_Sunday_
and the quotes for it came from here;
http://www.brainyquote.com/
the information for it came from here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
and there is much more information about all of these people to be found on these links.
I did something quite similar tho this last May on her birthday, and that's here;
http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/299/ART_SUNDAY_HAPPY_BIRTHDAY_Friday_15th_May_To_Our_Art_Loving_Friend
I did find out something interesting, the name Baroque came from Baroque pearls which are simply pearls that have an irregular shape. They have all the luster and allure of any other pearl but their shape is irregular and intricate.
On Jul 6, '08 4:26 PM she wrote;
If I lived to be eighty, there was no telling how far out of it I might eventually go; perhaps I could slip all the way back into the eighteenth century, which has always seemed to me a nice place to visit. ( from Joseph Epstein's essay Nicely Out of It)
I too love the 18th century, not only because of all the cultural diversity, but also because some of my favourite people lived their whole lives or were born within that period of time, people like Voltaire, Diderot, Fielding, Fragonard, Goethe , Jane Austen, Madame de Staël and many others.
She loved the eighteenth century and these people in particular;
François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.
Voltaire Quote; All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie.Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques the Fatalist and his Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will. Diderot is also known as the author of the dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nephew), upon which many articles and sermons about consumer desire have been based. His articles included many topics of the Enlightenment.
Diderot Quote; Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate.
Fielding quote;
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 5 April 1732– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. The art works on this page are his.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Goethe Quote; All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry
Austin Quote; A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Ill not write another post for Lina, one year has passed and maybe its time to say we love you, we miss you, we’ll never forget you and good bye dear friend.
Video 18th Century European Portraits
0:09 - Thomas Gainsborough - "The Blue Boy"
0:19 - Angelica Kaufmann - "Portrait of a Woman Dressed as Vestal Virgin"
0:31 - Allan Ramsay - "Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
0:44 - William Hogarth - "David Garrick with His Wife Eva-Maria Veigel"
0:58 - Jacques-Louis David - "Portrait of Anne-Marie-Louise Thelusson, Comtesse de Sorcy"
1:11 - Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder - "Portrait of Prince Boris Golizyn"
1:24 - Francis Boucher - "Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses"
1:39 - Maurice Quentin de La Tour - "Self Portrait"
1:52 - Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes - "Portrait of Marqueza Pontejos"
2:05 - Heinrich-Friedrich Fueger - "Portrait of Franz Joseph Graf Saurau"
2:20 - Jean-Marc Nattier - "Marie Adelaide of France as Flora"
2:31 - John Singleton Copley - "Portrait of Mrs. Humphrey Devereux"
2:43 - Anton Raphael Mengs - "Self Portrait"
2:57 - Antoine Pesne - "Portrait of Maria Susanne Dinglinger"
3:11 - Joshua Reynolds - "Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, Grenadier Guards"
3:24 - Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun - "Portrait of Marie Antoinette"
Music: Final Movement from Mass No. 7 in B flat major composed by Joseph Haydn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5SXMa7zx-s&feature=player_embedded#!
I
love the romantic, lusty nature of these pictures. They fill me with
joy. I also like the quote: "Scarcely one person in a thousand is
capable of tasting the happiness of others." I suppose it is sad but
true, many people are more likely to enjoy the misfortunes of others
than to enjoy their happiness. I am very sorry about Lina.
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madisonpooface wrote on Nov 15, '09
This
is a wonderful post Loretta. I can see that our tribute to Lina last
week really moved you. She is, was a fabulous person. Being the
professor, she did know what she was talking about. Her knowledge never
ceased to amaze me. This is a great post,
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philsgal7759 wrote on Nov 14, '09
"the
name Baroque came from Baroque pearls which are simply pearls that have
an irregular shape. They have all the luster and allure of any other
pearl but their shape is irregular and intricate."
Hmmm is it any wonder Lina loved pearls and Baroque art and regularly featured both on her Blog? |
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