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Born #OTD 1830, #German #American luminist painter, Albert Bierstadt https://t.co/d8sC3P2bFH 'There are many more I would like to have shared with you. This sample, chosen at random, is only a pale tribute.' < #art
'In aerial latitudes
and the silent margins
of heat and cold,
day and clairvoyant dusk,
the mirage shimmers
above our wilderness,
evoking plangent echoes
of something lost and longed for...' https://t.co/TFRn0HaiAF < #poem #poetrycommunity #art David Roberts
'We had to go a different way...
Taking the path that snakes down into Egypt...' https://t.co/fvnOgXl5uA For all migrants, exiles and children of war-torn countries...and those trafficked, abused and casualties of broken homes. #HolyInnocents #art
'...But what these wayfarers have sought
is deep, surpassing mortal thought
and brute direction of the plot..' https://t.co/KziB3hudYP < #poem #ChristmasDay #Rosary #Saturday
O Wonderful Exchange https://t.co/vGARVlWJC7 (Translation of Greek text in link.) 8th O Antiphon before #Christmas < #ChristmasEve
'O felix culpa,
Currency Divine!
Our frame is your home,
impoverished host
becomes welcome guest,
feasts on Bread and Wine'
A Real Goer https://t.co/S0qa0bYrmN 'He was named Frederick in tribute to my lord Berkeley and on December 19th, Lizzie and Tom’s first wedding anniversary, his grandfather had the pleasure of baptising him.' #OTD 1787 All Saints Church, #Stone, #Glos
Wassily Kandinsky #Russian #French #Abstract painter, died December 13th, 1944 < #art
Interesting to compare this composition with Kay Nielsen (#Danish #illustrator) right.
On This Day, the Fourth of December https://t.co/rQQC8kQQ0M < #Thanksgiving #BerkeleyPlantation #Jamestown #Virginia