Tag Archives: France

1585: A Young Daughter of the Picts

Posted on December 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585) An engraving based on this miniature appeared in the section on Picts and ancient Britons in Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land … Continue reading →

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32,000 ya: Panel of the Lions

Posted on December 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Chauvet Cave, Panel of the Lions (Aurignacian culture, ca. 30,000 – 32,000 ya) (source)

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1680: Indiscreet

Posted on December 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

In [Renaissance] France homosexuality was long deemed a caprice reserved to the nobility, the intellectual and artistic elite, and the princes of the Church. To be sure, other classes are known to have been involved, but their activity tended to … Continue reading →

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1924: That’s What the Leaves Murmured

Posted on November 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

Diaz’s Forest In a forest painted by Diaz, a little motherkin and her child stood still. They were now a good hour from the village. Gnarled trunks spoke a primeval tongue. The mother said to her child: “In my opinion, … Continue reading →

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1890: Low Tide

Posted on November 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Alexander Harrison: Low Tide, Brittany (c. 1890)

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1989: The Great Fire of London

Posted on November 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

In this dream I was coming up out of the London tube. I was in a rush, under a gray rain. I was preparing myself for a new life, for a joyful freedom. And I had to fathom the dream’s … Continue reading →

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1732: The Morals of Chess

Posted on November 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Although Benjamin Franklin likely composed his essay “The Morals of Chess” as early as 1732, it was first published in 1786, during the height of interest surrounding Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical chess-playing Turk; Franklin himself had lost to the machine … Continue reading →

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1885: Wave

Posted on November 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Alexander Harrison: Wave (1885) (source)

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1932: The King of the Crickets

Posted on November 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

The King of the Crickets from The Luck of the Bean-Rows, A Fairy-Tale for Lucky Children. My edition is an anonymous translation from the French of Charles Nodier, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser; undated but inscribed “December 25, 1932.”

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1894: Point of View

Posted on November 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

James Tissot: Ce que voyait Notre-Seigneur sur la Croix [What Our Lord Saw from the Cross] (1894)

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