Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 150
August 4, 2015
Through the Female Lens: Gertrude Käsebier’s Indians
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 18th of May 1852, leading American pictorialist photographer Gertrude Käsebier was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Artistically trained at the Pratt Institute, then in France and Germany, she started off as a magazine photo-illustrator, opening her own portrait studio on Fifth Avenue in New York at the end of the 19th century. Her work ‘Blessed art thou among women’ was among the photographs featured in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’ Camera Work in 190...
Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘Showbox’ Paintings
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 2nd of August 1788, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died in London at the age of 61. One of the most unusual artworks created by the artist, nowon display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is his experimental showbox with hisback-lit landscapes painted in oils on glass, which allowed them to be changed and viewed like slides. Made in the 1780s, the minuscule works can be seenin thisspecially constructed ‘showbox’, a machine consisting of...
Queen of Kings
Originally posted on History Witch:
Tamar the Great!!! (1160 – 1213) was the Queen regnant of Georgia. Her father, George III, made co-ruler when she was just 18. When he passed away, she succeeded in “calming down” the opposition to her ruleand successfully took over as Queen.
So successful, she was said to be the “King of Kings and Queen of Queens” by her people. She was an active military leader,a patron of the arts & culture, and her reign is still referred to as“The Golden Age”.
She ki...
DRAWING DEAD BOOK TRAILER
Originally posted on The Ravings of a Sick Mind:
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August 3, 2015
Historic Painting: “Réception du Grand Condé” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1878.
Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:
Here is another wonderful painting by French artistJean-Léon Gérôme, whose work I have come to greatly admire. Recently I showcased his 1882 pictureThe Tulip Folly and an earlier (1872) view of ancient Rome,Pollice Verso. Here is another historic picture by him, painted in 1878. It’s calledRéception du Grand Condéà Versailles (“Reception of Grand Condé at Versailles”) and as you can see it’s every bit as magnificent as the previous paintings I’ve sho...
Mud, cold and metal: A retrospective of Wacken Open Air 2015, from afar.
Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:
Wacken Open Air, the great yearly metal festival in northern Germany, is over. This year, 2015, was the 26th such festival, whose illustrious history stretches way back to 1990. I wasn’t there this year, as I thought it likely that 2014 was my last Wacken at least for a good long while. Nevertheless I spent considerable time this weekend monitoring what was going on via social media and the terrific livestream of several of the performances, and thus...
2 August 1940: Twelve Hurricane Fighters Arrive in ‘Hurry’
Originally posted on Malta: War Diary:
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MALTA HAS NEW FIGHTER FLIGHT
Twelve Hurricane fighters flew in to Malta today to strengthen the Island’s air defences. At 0740 hours this morning RAF Luqa received a message to stand by for the arrival of two separate formations, each of seven aircraft.
In ‘Operation Hurry’ the twelve Hurricanes and two Skuas left th...
29 JULY 1504: THE DEATH of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Originally posted on tudorqueen6:
Portrait purported to be of the first Earl of Derby but the costume is of a later period.
Thomas Stanley was born c. 1435 to Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley and Joan Goushill, daughter of Sir Robert of Heveringham Goushill and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan, Duchess of Norfolk; herself the daughter of the 11th Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth de Bohun. Lady Elizabeth was aunt to a royal Duchess,...
Regency Personalities Series-Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk
Originally posted on The Things That Catch My Eye:
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk
23 May 1771 – 10 December 1846
Amelius Beauclerk
Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk was born on 23 May 1771, the third son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans and his wife, the former Lady Catherine Ponsonby, daughter of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough....
