Old Man Reading the Bible by Julius Komjati (1928)
Fine Art Friday – Komjati
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Fine Art Friday/Turning Pages
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and, finally, a detailled view:
This dovetails with our reading of Bede’s The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. My youngest son enjoys bringing his dad up to speed with our reading during the dinner hour. We both enjoy listening to his retelling of Bede’s stories.
Look what I found!!! This is HUGE!
The British Library’s feature Turning the Pages
It took about five minutes to download and now we have access to all kinds of rare documents. I looked through the Lindisfarne Gospels and Jane Austen’s juvenile History of England. Also available are Leonardo daVinci’s notebook, Mozart’s musical diary, the original Alice in Wonderland. More works will be added. It is really unspeakably marvellous to be able to see these pieces like this on your computer screen.
Oh, I am sooooo happy that we now have DSL. This is a treasure trove of exploration.
Rembrandt – Simeon with the Christ Child
The Song of Simeon
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant
depart in peace,
according to thy word:
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared
before the face of all people;
A light to lighten the Gentiles,
and the glory of thy people Israel.
Fine Art Friday
Songs of Childhood
Charles Curran, Songs of Childhood
My beloved Latin teacher introduced me to Charles Curran several years ago. I can relate to the little girl leaning on the piano. She’s getting a happy earful, don’t you think? Likewise, I used to drape myself over the side of an upright piano and listen to my piano mentor, Audrey St. Marie. Whenever she played and I was in the room I just had to be as close to the piano as possible. But I had to be able to see her hands on the keys.
Songs are as potent as smells in evoking childhood memories. There have been times when my sister was visiting and we broke into a camp song we hadn’t sung in twenty years much to my husband’s astonishment. At my in-law’s 50th anniversary party, just for fun, my husband and his sister sang “Haggalina Baggalina,” a song they sang repeatedly as children on cross-country car trips.
What songs do you remember from your childhood?
Fine Art Friday, J. Clark
These days I feel richer than a Rockefeller. Blessing upon blessing has drenched me until I’m quite in danger of drowning in goodness and mercy. ‘All this, and heaven too?’ is a refrain that echoes throughout the day. Elizabeth Barrett Browning stated it perfectly: “Earth’s crammed with heaven.”
To the extent that the medium of the web can be used destructively and for evil
purposes is as much as it can be redeemed and used to build, fortify,
strengthen and embellish.
I have been exposed to wonderful new
authors, delicious menus and recipes, arresting quotes, beautiful art,
thoughtful musings, penetrating commentary, thought-provoking analysis,
and old-fashioned friendship in my sojourn through the sites.
In 2006 I have filled three journals with quotes, thoughts, comments –
many from my trips around the web-block, made some scrumptious dishes,
been inspired by you to stretch and grow, continued online discussions
around our own dinner table, listened to achingly beautiful music, put
more time into planning my reading, and acquired stacks of books!
Thank you for the information; thank you for the inspiration; and thank
you for the anticipation of more in the future.
Fine Art Friday – Vermeer
View of Delft Jan Vermeer c. 1660
Hey! Did you know that Vermeer was friends with Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the miscroscope? You can learn about Leeuwenhoek in the book Microbe Hunters. Click on Search Inside and you can read most of Leeuwenhoek’s story.
We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who opened up a world previously unseen. With his microscope microbes were discovered, which brought great advances in science, health and hygiene.
We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Jan Vermeer, who preserved on canvas the world seen in this lush landscape. I’m glad he included the dark clouds. Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek: oh! to be a mouse in their pockets and hear their conversations!
[Note: Thank you for your prayers yesterday. My father in-law was flown to a metropolitan area because of heart problems. He didn’t have a heart attack, but had serious symptoms and a stress test concerned his local physician. He’s young (70), active and in great physical shape; this came as a great shock. No procedures are necessary and he’s on his way home.]
Fine Art Friday – My Brother!
My brother Jim (the physician) is hands-down the most artistic of the seven children in our family. I adored him as a child (still do) and he tolerated my puppy-dog devotion, willingly sharing his plans for the art project of the week. He is a master designer and a wonderful executor of his designs.
Six years ago, I saw some small watercolors he painted and subtly hinted implored, begged, eagerly asked for a one watercolor of his to hang on my wall. To my joy, my exuberant joy, a package came this week with my wish.
The Adirondack chairs are sitting on a hill on a island which is my brother’s family’s favorite getaway. It is an artist colony with no automobiles, a lovely public library; an island famous for its remarkable light. They speak with such love for this place and take every opportunity to spend time there.
I have to share with you one of Jim’s most excellent projects: the cover of the wedding invitation for his wedding. He drew a chalice. Anyone who knows them will clearly see the profile of Jim and Kathleen’s faces in the chalice.
Folks, it’s a Fine Art Friday Feast today. I haven’t gotten to all my usual online haunts but please, please, check these out: Maple Grove Quiet Life Seasonal Soundings Mental Multi-vitamin . You will be enriched by these posts, I promise.
I found the perfect spot for my treasure in our bedroom. I can look to my right when sitting at the computer and this is my view:
Fine Art Friday – Briton Rivière
Fine Art Friday – Gérôme
The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme
You can see a larger scale of this print here. We’ve almost finished Eusebius’ The Church History, which is full of stories about martyrs. Eusebius not only paints pictures of the brave, courageous martyrs; he tells of those who escaped martyrdom, who under the strain “sacrificed” [to the Roman god]. This was a time of great unrest with a reign of an emperor lasting 2-5 years. Because there were alternating periods of persecution and peace, there were folks who denied their faith under pressure and then repented and came back to the church.
The response of church leaders to those who had recanted and subsequently returned to the church became a major point of dissention. Some bishops required rebaptism and some sort of purification; some bishops [incuding Novatus] refused to offer any forgiveness and with contempt damned the repentant recantors with no hope of salvation. The orthodox bishops disagreed. A synod convened and
“It was decreed unanimously that Novatus, his companions in arrogance, and all who supported his hatred and inhumanity to the brethren should be considered outside the church, but that those brothers who had fallen should be treated and restored with the medicine of repentance.” p. 239
Another divisive issue involved which day to celebrate Easter. One side favored strict adherence to the precise date on the Jewish calendar for Passover and celebrated on whichever day of the week it fell on [absolute date]. The other side believed strongly that Easter should be celebrated on the day of the resurrection (Sunday) [absolute day]. This was no small quarrel: strong words were used to describe the opponents and whole dioceses were excommunicated. Polycarp and Anicetus, two leaders, provided a great example.
“And when the blessed Polycarp visited Rome in Anicetus’s time, though they had minor disagreements on other matters, they made peace immediately, having no wish to quarrel on this point. Anicetus could not persuade Polycarp…nor did Polycarp persuade Anicetus… Nevertheless, they communed with each other, and in church Anicetus yielded…to Polycarp, obviously out of respect. They parted from each other in peace, and peace in the whole church was maintained both by those who observed and those who did not.” p. 199
A Living Pencil 