Tag Archives: France

1509: The Most Curious Book in the World

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

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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1885: Moonrise

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Henri-Joseph Harpignies: Moonrise (1885)

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1946: Beauty and the Beast

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Jean Cocteau, director: La Belle et la Bête (1946)

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1865: The Storm Cloud

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Félix Bracquemond: The Storm Cloud (1860-1870)

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1897: Orpheus

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Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau: Orpheus in Hades (1897)

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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur

Posted on September 1, 2019 by

This llustration from an early fourteenth century compendium shows the five functions of the brain: perception, imagination, estimation, cogitation, and memory. Drawn from the works of Thomas Aquinas and the Arabic philosopher Avicenna, the theory posits that sensory information enters … Continue reading →

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1784: Whimsical Associations

Posted on July 12, 2019 by

From Paul Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965): “In ‘The Poplar Field’ …William Cowper…unwittingly allows the whimsical associations of triple meter to work against him.” The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the … Continue reading →

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