Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 67
September 23, 2016
Impressionism in Photography: George Davidson
The Onion Field (1890)
On the 19th of September 1854, English photographer, and a proponent of pictorial or impressionistic photography, George Davidson was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. He is noted as one of the most important figures in the development of Pictorial photography at the end of the nineteenth century. Born into a comparatively modest family – his father was a shipyard carpenter – he was the only oneof his siblings who was lucky enough to receive a secondary...
Arthur’s Enchantress
‘Tis the season of the witch!
Morgan Le Fay, also referred to as Morgana, Morgain, Morgaine, etc. was the famous witch/sorceress found in the King Arthur legends. Where originally she was described as the king’s half-sister(just a healer and magician), the stories twisted her character into something incredibly evil (enchantress, witch, murderer).
There are hundreds of articles and theories about her but I find the most thorough to come from the University of Rochester Camelot...
The Coastal Path: 82d – Portland Part V – Church Ope Cove (Dorset, UK).
About half way down the east cost of Portland is Church Ope Cove. It offers a secluded beac...
September 21, 2016
Marcelo Gomes Performing Jorma Elo’s “Still of Kings”….
Choreography:Jorma Elo’s
Music byFranz Joseph Haydn
(Symphony No 100 In G, H 1/100, “Military” – 1. Adagio, Allegro)
Kings of Dance, Opus 3 / All Hail the Kings!
‘1979’: Billy Corgan’s ode to youth.
If It Happened Yesterday, It's History
Rolling Stone magazine best sums up ‘1979’ as “a mid tempo tune that looks back on the aimless fun of adolescene with a touch of melancholy and longing.”It is a song that still stands the test of time, no matter what generation of youth choose to listen to it. Though, I don’t think you have to be young to appreciate its sentiment. I often find myself nowadays cranking up the volume on 1979, simply because it is a beautiful song. And so while I’m thinki...
September 20, 2016
Empress Maria Theresa: A Formidable Ruler
Maria Theresa is perhaps best known as Marie Antoinette‘s formidable mother, but Maria Theresa always kept her focus on her kingdom and was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last ruler of the House of Habsburg.
As ruler, Empress Maria Theresa was a strategic, energetic woman who many people said was tactful like a woman but thoughtful like a man. Under her rule, two great wars were fought—War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War—both of which proved to b...
Rubbing Furniture with Eels
The Saucer of Milk, by Helen Allingham
Snippets 94. For the last couple of snippets we have been looking at The New British Jewel, or Complete Housewife’s Best Companion, published in 1788, a collection of recipes and other practical information. We will return to this book in future to look at some more of the gardening advice, but apart from that here is the final snippet from this interesting old book, a selection of quotes giving some household advice. Firstly, a m...
September 19, 2016
Drawing down the Moon
One artist whose work I have admired for quite a while but never really knew how to contextualize in a topical or thematic way is Samuel Palmer (1805-1881). He seems to be one of those people who was not of his time.I guess you would call him aVictorian artist, but he reacted against his dynamic age by creating rather romanticized, even primitivized (if that is a word) landscapes and pastoral scenes, in several mediums. I find much of his work–particularly his early work– very...
Second Crusade: St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard was born in 1090, to parents Tescelin de Fontaine, Lord of Fontaine-les-Dijon and Alethe de Montbard of high French nobility in the Burgundy region.
Aged nine, Bernard attended Chatillon-sur-Seine school. In 1109 at the age of nineteen his mother died.
The young Bernard, felt he had been called by God in 1112, aged just twenty-two, to enter the order of Cistercian Monks of Citeaux. Bernard’s testimony was so compelling, some thirty frie...
