Tag Archives: France

1885: Moonrise

Posted on November 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

Henri-Joseph Harpignies: Moonrise (1885)

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1946: Beauty and the Beast

Posted on September 13, 2019 by corvusfugit

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

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1865: The Storm Cloud

Posted on September 8, 2019 by corvusfugit

Félix Bracquemond: The Storm Cloud (1860-1870)

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1897: Orpheus

Posted on September 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

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

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1307: Qualiter caput hominis situatur

Posted on September 1, 2019 by corvusfugit

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 corvusfugit

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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1873: Sunset

Posted on May 14, 2019 by corvusfugit

Armand Guillaumin: Sunset over Ivry (1873)

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1895: A-ka-u-ku

Posted on May 12, 2019 by corvusfugit

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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1675: Lightning

Posted on May 4, 2019 by corvusfugit

Francisque Millet: Mountain Landscape with Lightning (c. 1675)

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1891: Funeral

Posted on April 30, 2019 by corvusfugit

Henri Rivière: Funeral Under Umbrellas (1891)

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