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DRUNKENNESS
"The Brilliants", Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1801 - The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
The only requirement of this club was that 24 full toasts be given before the drinking began in earnest.
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Pablo Picasso, THE FRUGAL REPAST (LE REPAS FRUGAL) from the Saltimbanques series, 1904, etching, published 1913 - Art Institute of Chicago
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Daily favourites from the Museum, according to the inspiration of the moment.
THE FRUGAL MEAL
Pablo Picasso, etching on zinc, 1904 - Art Institute Chicago
One of the last works of Picasso’s Blue Period, completed just after the artist settled in France.
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NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS, two years ago
TREADING OF THE GRAPES
Western rose window - Zodiac, 1220/25
The Western rose window of Notre-Dame was spared the blaze. The stained glass panels depict each month’s agricultural work associated with its zodiac sign.
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VIRGIN AND CHILD
Joos van Cleve, ca. 1515/20 - Priv. coll.
Wine foreshadows the Eucharist and reminds the viewers of the earthly nature of Christ and his death on the Cross for the redemption of sinners.
Daily favourites from the Museum, from theme to theme in gleeful disorder, according to the inspiration of the moment.
THE ELECTION ENTERTAINMENT
W. Hogarth, 1754/55 - Sir John Soane's Museum, London
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BOTTLE AND FISHES
G. Braque, ca. 1910/12 - Tate, London
A traditional domestic subject matter again, with a bottle and fishes on a plate, laid on a table with a drawer: ordinary objects, but fragmented to form a grid-like structure.
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Exhibitions - Street Art, Graffiti: Bacchus and Wine have taken over walls
IN VINO VERITAS
Restaurant Le Bistrot d'à côté, Lyon, France
While some see graffiti as undesirable, others consider its most elaborate forms a type of art that deserves attention.
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Wine and Painting : New Testament
THE BLIND MAN'S MEAL
Pablo Picasso, 1903 - MET, New York
'A remarkable restatement of the Christian sacrament—the ritual of tasting bread and wine to evoke the flesh and blood of Christ—in contemporary terms' (MET)
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Wine and painting : The Old Testament
SONG OF SONGS I
Marc Chagall ('To Vava, my wife, my joy, and my gladness')
1960 - Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, France
Bible text: 'For thy love is better than wine...'
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