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Tag Archives: France
1509: The Most Curious Book in the World
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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Tagged 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 1860's, Belgium, Books, Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Christianity, France, Germany, Hans Memling, King Henry VII, Painting, Pierre Lambinet, Printing, Religion, USA
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1885: Moonrise
Henri-Joseph Harpignies: Moonrise (1885)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, France, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Landscapes, Painting, The Moon
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1946: Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau, director: La Belle et la Bête (1946)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Fairy Tales, Film, France, Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Monsters
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1865: The Storm Cloud
Félix Bracquemond: The Storm Cloud (1860-1870)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Félix Bracquemond, France, Geese, Printmaking, The Sky, Weather
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1897: Orpheus
Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau: Orpheus in Hades (1897)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, France, Hell, Music, Mythology, Orpheus, Painting, Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau
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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur
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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Tagged 14th Century, Art, Avicenna, France, Great Britain, Illustration, Philosophy, Psychology, Thomas Aquinas
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1784: Whimsical Associations
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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Tagged 1890's, 18th Century, 1960's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Art, Claude Monet, France, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Paul Fussell, Poetry, Trees, William Cowper
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1873: Sunset
Armand Guillaumin: Sunset over Ivry (1873)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Armand Guillaumin, Art, Factories, France, Industry, Landscapes, Painting
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1895: A-ka-u-ku
In 1895, King Njoya of the Bamum, an ethnic group from what is now western Cameroon, invented an alphabet to record the history of his people. Njoya, who traced his linaege back 16 or 17 generations of kings, was insipred … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Africa, Books, Cameroon, Colonialism, Dreams, France, Language, Njoya, Writing
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1675: Lightning
Francisque Millet: Mountain Landscape with Lightning (c. 1675)
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, France, Francisque Millet, Landscapes, Meteorology, Netherlands, Painting, Weather
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