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This year falls on a Monday. When that happens do you and yours celebrate day of or on the closest weekend?

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2022-02-14

When falls on a weekend, that means it should the WHOLE weekend, right?

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2021-02-15

Io Saturnalia!

Yes, it's been a strange year, but and have been real sources of solace for me. So my thanks to you all and my best wishes for the season!

Image: 'The Romans in their Decadence', Thomas Couture - 1847 (Musée d'Orsay: 3451)

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2020-12-17

The Parthenon was extensively damaged in 1687, when an ammunition store was hit by a shell from Venetian besiegers. Before & after paintings: by Jacques Carrey (1674: detail) & Pierre Peytier (1830s); a mosque had been built inside by the Ottomans Day 131

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The brutal dismemberment of Parthenon by Lord Elgin's men - commencing in 1801 - was captured by the English painter Edward Dodwell. The use of saws to hack through large sections of the Panathenaic frieze also caused structural damage

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2020-12-14

Maria Sibylla Merian began collecting and studying insects at age 13. Working from live specimens, she depicted the stages of caterpillar metamorphosis. Her illustrations are held by among others https://t.co/g8AvhuovDG

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2020-12-08

For this here are a Hogarth 1st state & some Hogarth LWL Curator Cynthia Roman wrote about "Copying The Sleeping Congregation" in "Hogarth's Legacy" (Yale Univ. Press 2016). Can you tell which of these is the Hogarth print?

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2020-12-08

This scene of winter revellers on Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, in 1876 by Charles Altamont Doyle is providing us endless entertainment for today's theme of 'wintertime'❄️
What shenanigans can you spot? Get that magnifying glass out and show us your favourites!🔎

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2020-11-30

During 'Little Ice Age' 1300-1870 Thames froze over. frost fairs held from 1608 (#1), and (#2 1684, 1715) featured rides, games, printing presses, ox/mutton roasts, taverns, music, poets and gingerbread (#4 from last fair 1814). From

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2020-11-30

Snow Viewing at Mokubo-ji Temple: The Uekiya Restaurant, 1838–40 by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). Japanese prints of celebrate the fleeting beauty of snow, one of the Three Beauties of Nature, ‘snow, moon and flowers’. https://t.co/vxm0j26T56

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2020-11-30

From twilight to moonlight...

Close inspection of this summertime landscape, painted c.1835 by Irish artist James Arthur O'Connor, reveals a wealth of nocturnal river activity.

This painting entered the collection in 1998 through the Fr McGrath Bequest.

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2020-11-29

The Night-time phenomenon "Will-o'-the-Wisp" features in folklore throughout the world. Here depicted in "Das Irrlicht" by Arnold Böcklin. Also, musically in Winterreise 9:
"In die tiefsten Felsengründe/Lockte mich ein Irrlicht hin." Day 124

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Day 124 Dusk & Night Ian Whittlesea, The sun is but a morning star, 2011, two prints derived from the title page of Thoreau’s Walden.

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Magnificent hand-coloured etching of Castel Sant'Angelo from the other side of the Tiber at with a crowd of spectators in the foreground and a firework display in the background.
https://t.co/C013oI9sAy

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2020-11-29

Although euros are accepted, the kuna is the currency of Croatia. Kuna = marten, the weasel with valuable fur. There’s a kuna animal on the coat of arms of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia seen on the roof tiles of St. Mark’s Church in Zagreb.

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2020-11-28

Storm 2 of 2 for Day122 a sublime and picturesque Brighton storm, by none other than JMW Turner. One of very few pictures by him showing the Royal Pavilion. He probably sketched this in 1824 from a boat off the Chain Pier (see Storm 1)

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2020-11-28

Watching a storm... I'm not sure I'd stop and paint it, think I'd run off home! ⚡️

From the Monument Hill - Thunderstorm by Elijah Walton, c. 1852.

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2020-11-27

Day 122 "Ships and Whales in a Tempest," c.1595 -by The PdP Monogrammist. Early example of Dutch “realistic” marine painting; the earliest marine painting in the Western Hemisphere. https://t.co/xrNVVE24nF

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2020-11-27

- Storms

Not my usual stuff, but I'm also a massive comic fan, so...

Here's Halle Berry's Ororo Munroe/Storm Costume from the 2014 film 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.

Image: National Museum of American History (2014.0076.02)

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2020-11-27

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633): Rembrandt's only sea-scape. It was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston until it was stolen in 1990: it was never recovered. Day122 Storms

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