Jenny (N.d.) More information here.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
George Chinnery (1774-1852)
Mr and Mrs Richmond Thackeray and their Son, William Makepeace Thackeray (1814). More information about Chinnery here.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Current Favourite Sentence
The title of Pijade's novel, first published in 1921, and republished in 2001, is Strast (Passion), and it is the romantic, tragic, and rather gothic tale of unfortunate love between two nuns.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Nabil Shaban (1953- )
I think this must be a picture from when he was playing Volpone in Fleshfly (1996). More information here.
Current Favourite Sentences
Thank you for taking the time to go through this FAQ. It was created in light of the realization that for someone with a "round-Earth" (RE) background, the FE theory would appear at first glance to have some glaring holes.
In fact the whole website of the Flat Earth Society is lovely; maybe this is my favourite bit instead:
Q: "Why do you believe the Earth is flat?"
A: It looks that way up close.
In fact the whole website of the Flat Earth Society is lovely; maybe this is my favourite bit instead:
Q: "Why do you believe the Earth is flat?"
A: It looks that way up close.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Leonardo Alenza (1807-1845)
Sátira del suicidio romántico (1839). More information, although some of the dates are a bit iffy, here.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Current Favourite Sentence
In 1872 she published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto and tried to persuade Karl Marx that the goals of Spiritualism were the same as those of the International Workingman's Association.
Current Favourite Sentences
In fact, Bergman was a voracious film watcher. Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, author of the Wallander novels and married to one of Bergman's daughters, was also in Fårö, and he told me about the screenings his father-in-law would host every day at 3pm in the state-of-the-art cinema he had built in a converted farmhouse (I saw a movie there later: Bergman's front-row chair, complete with cushion and foot stool, is left reverentially unoccupied). Mankell remembers the director's special fondness for the remake of Ocean's 11 – "Jesus!" said Bergman as the credits rolled, "we need to see this again next week."
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Cy Twombly, Jr. (1928-2011)
The Bay of Naples (1961). More info here. A good example of nominative determinism: could this picture be any more twombly?
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Museo del Romanticismo
The Museo del Romanticismo is hidden away down a backstreet, and is a reconstructed nineteenth-century house. It's beautiful, and full of creepy dolls, two things that are usually incompatible.
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