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Showing posts with label 18C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18C. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2015
The Five Senses - 1753 John Bowles (British Printer, 1701-1779)
Thursday, July 16, 2015
The Five Senses - 1700 Jean Mariette (French printmaker; French 1660-1742)
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Saturday, July 4, 2015
Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c 1721 - 1775)
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Earth, Water, Air, & Fire - The Elements - Jacopo Amigoni (Italian artist, c 1682-1752)
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
1700s Music Parties Indoors
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
18C Reading Indoors or How to flirt with a book
At first, of course, there is the innocent, virtuous young girl...
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Italian painter Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762), was a highly successful, itinerant artist who traveled painting portraits of wealthy patrons across Europe. As a young man he studied under Antonio Balestra in Rome & Francesco Trevisani in Naples. Thereafter he returned to Verona where he set up a studio for a while, before he began to travel. His work attracted royal & aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, Munich, & Saint Petersburg. In order to earn a living between commissioned portraits, he created many genre portraits, often images of pretty young girls casting coquettish glances. He died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
1700s Bringing the Harvest to the Table with Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776)
One of my favorite 18th-century Flemish painters is Peter Jakob Horemans (1700-1776), who was active as court painter in Munich. Horemans’s lovingly detailed images, part portrait & part still life, capture the richness of everyday life in southern Germany.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
The sexual revolution in 18C England & her colonies
An article appeared in The Guardian about a little known sexual revolution in 18C England. It was written by Faramerz Dabhoiwala about his book, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution.
Here are a few snippets. "Since the dawn of history, every civilisation had punished sexual immorality. The law codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England treated women as chattels, but they also forbade married men to fornicate with their slaves, and ordered that adulteresses be publicly disgraced, lose their goods and have their ears and noses cut off. Such severity reflected the Christian church's view of sex as a dangerously polluting force, as well as the patriarchal commonplace that women were more lustful than men and liable to lead them astray...
" When the Massachusetts settler James Britton fell ill in the winter of 1644, he became gripped by a "fearful horror of conscience" that this was God's punishment on him for his past sins. So he publicly confessed that once, after a night of heavy drinking, he had tried (but failed) to have sex with a young bride, Mary Latham. Though she now lived far away, in Plymouth colony, the magistrates there were alerted. She was found, arrested and brought back, across the icy landscape, to stand trial in Boston. When, despite her denial that they had actually had sex, she was convicted of adultery, she broke down, confessed it was true, "proved very penitent, and had deep apprehension of the foulness of her sin … and was willing to die in satisfaction to justice". On 21 March, a fortnight after her sentence, she was taken to the public scaffold. Britton was executed alongside her; he, too, "died very penitently". In the shadow of the gallows, Latham addressed the assembled crowds, exhorting other young women to be warned by her example, and again proclaiming her abhorrence and penitence for her terrible crime against God and society. Then she was hanged. She was 18 years old.
"That is the world we have left behind. Over the following century and a half it was transformed by a great revolution that laid the ground for the sexual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and of our own day. The most obvious change was a surge in pre- and extramarital sex. We can measure this, crudely but unmistakably, in the numbers of children conceived out of wedlock. During the 17th century this figure had been extremely low: in 1650 only about 1% of all births in England were illegitimate. But by 1800, almost 40% of brides came to the altar pregnant, and about a quarter of all first-born children were illegitimate. It was to be a permanent change in behaviour."
The article, actually a review of Dabhoiwala's book, then goes on to explore the reasons for this sexual revolution. You can find the article here.
Friday, February 6, 2015
1500s-1700s Women depicted as Peace in prints
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Friday, January 23, 2015
On Growing Old...Really Old
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Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Old Woman, Madame le Coeur
Eighty-Five
by Betty Lockwood
As I grow older, I feel younger
more eager, more full of love.
More alive the closer I move to death.
More whole the closer I move into blight.
The sweeter life grows as fervent
clamors of youth pass.
Passions of old age take deeper
flavor, ripened, more nuanced.
More easily words and affections
flow when the self-conscious gaucherie
of youth has passed.
Wholeness suddenly is mine;
ragged edges of fear hemmed.
Mirrors say Look. Do not
be afraid. You are what you are.
by Betty Lockwood from A Matriach's Song Peter Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH 2001
George Wesley Bellows (American artist, 1882-1925) Aunt Fanny 1920
Christian Seybold (German artist, 1697-1768) Old Woman
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Christian von Schneidau (American artist, 1893–1976) Woman Reading
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Henry-Jules-Jean Geoffroy (French genre painter 1853-1924) Old Woman’s Head
Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Old Woman, Madame le CoeurEighty-Five
by Betty Lockwood
As I grow older, I feel younger
more eager, more full of love.
More alive the closer I move to death.
More whole the closer I move into blight.
The sweeter life grows as fervent
clamors of youth pass.
Passions of old age take deeper
flavor, ripened, more nuanced.
More easily words and affections
flow when the self-conscious gaucherie
of youth has passed.
Wholeness suddenly is mine;
ragged edges of fear hemmed.
Mirrors say Look. Do not
be afraid. You are what you are.
by Betty Lockwood from A Matriach's Song Peter Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH 2001
George Wesley Bellows (American artist, 1882-1925) Aunt Fanny 1920
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