Sunday, February 25, 2024

bernard picart designed and engraved this rarther lovely coat of arms at a time when the royal family in the Uk where going through "a difficult patch" ... i suspect princess caroline may have been the only sane adult in the room ... the ribbon with the motto has been drawn in the shape of a heart ... was this a gesture of loyalty in the hope of reconciliation ?

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_of_Ansbach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_William_of_Great_Britain https://www.rijksmu...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

a few of anton seder's perfectionist artworks ...

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Seder

shops and businesses in malmesbury high street 1914 to 1941 ... doctor alison lever's map for malmesbury chronicles ... researched and drawn by her c.1987

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

churston deckle ... the loved one no longer needs this box and was agonizing indecisively just a few paces from the re-cycling bin ... it once contained some rarther posh writing paper

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a quick google led me to a lady-like blog ... https://barbarakorzeniowska.com/2019/02/20/letter-writing/  
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

when good painters of nudes wanted easy money, then i'd guess the ancient myth of Danae was an immediate "go-to" ...

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titian   orazio gentileschi artemisia gentileschi rubens rembrandt jacques blanchard Wertmuller klimt ... and many others ... ... such as .....
Sunday, February 11, 2024

i woke in the middle of the night and regretted never finishing Gibbon's Decline and Fall ... so i accessed Volume 6 on-line and turned to the last chapter ... there i found his description of the Rome he visited in the late 1700s ...

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But the clouds of barbarism were gradually dispelled; and the peaceful authority of Martin the Fifth and his successors restored the ornamen...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

mimi parent

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  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/06/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
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