Tag Archives: Belgium

1909: Seascape

Posted on June 30, 2021 by corvusfugit

Léon Spilliaert: Seascape Seen from Mariakerke (1909)

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1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements

Posted on August 15, 2020 by corvusfugit

Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →

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1900: Triptych

Posted on May 6, 2020 by corvusfugit

Constantin Meunier: Mine Triptych (Descent, Calvary, Ascent) (c. 1900)

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1509: The Most Curious Book in the World

Posted on March 23, 2020 by corvusfugit

The following entry appears in Charles Carroll Bombaugh’s Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive (1867): THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD The most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which belonged … Continue reading →

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1920: Bombyx

Posted on October 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

Jehan Frison: Le Bombyx (1920)

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1907: The Boat of the Ideal

Posted on September 17, 2019 by corvusfugit

Constant Montald: The Boat of the Ideal (1907)

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1907: Landscape with Sign

Posted on May 2, 2019 by corvusfugit

Léon Spilliaert: Landscape with Sign, Nocturne (circa 1907)

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2002: Trickland

Posted on April 15, 2019 by corvusfugit

Michaël Borremans: Trickland (2002)

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1918: All Things Die, But All Will Be Resurrected

Posted on March 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

Detail from Léon Frédéric’s seven-panel work All Things Die, But All Will Be Resurrected through God’s Love (1893-1918). Here is the whole thing:

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1562: Namesakes

Posted on July 13, 2018 by corvusfugit

The city of Richmond, California is named after the city of Richmond, Virginia, which is named after the English town of Richmond near London, which was named for Richmond Palace, which Henry VII named after his ancestral home in Richmond, … Continue reading →

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