the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Sunday, May 5, 2024

leda ... and her not always well-fitted or well-suited swans ...yet another occasional scrapbook

https://youtu.be/c-fGwrF45K4

... to be continued ...

GIOTTO AT ASSISI ... around 1297, he was commissioned to paint twenty-eight panels illustrating the life of saint francis ... WIKIPEDIA have put them in order for us ... there are disputes ... other painters are suggested

One, Homage of a Simple Man

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Saint_Francis_cycle_in_the_Upper_Church_of_San_Francesco_at_Assisi

Two, Saint Francis Giving his Cloak to a Poor Man

Three, Dream of the Palace

Four, Miracle of the Crucifix

Five, Renunciation of Worldly Goods

Six, The Dream of Innocent the Third

Seven, Confirmation of the Rule

Eight, Vision of the Flaming Chariot

Nine, Vision of the Thrones

Ten, Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo

Eleven, Saint Francis before the Sultan, ( Trial by Fire )

Twelve, The Ecstasy of Saint Francis

Thirteen, Institution of the Crib at Greccio

Fourteen, The Miracle of the Spring

Fifteen, The Sermon to the Birds

Sixteen, Death of the Knight of Celano

Seventeen, Saint Francis Preaching before Honorius the Third

Eighteen, The Apparition at Arles

Nineteen, The Stigmatization of Saint Francis

Twenty, The Death and Ascension of Saint Francis

Twenty-one, The apparition to Fra Agostino and Bishop Guido at Arezzo

Twenty-two, The Verification of the Stigmata

Twenty-three, Saint Francis Mourned by Saint Clare

Twenty-four, The Canonization of Saint Francis

Twenty-five, The Dream of Saint Gregory

Twenty-six, Uomo di Llerda

Twenty-seven, Confessione della Donna

Twenty-eight, liberation of the Eretico

The legend of Saint Francis, as recorded by Thomas of Celano and Bonaventura, is the subject of a cycle of 28 frescoes in the Upper Church of the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi. They were painted between 1297-1300, at the same time as Giotto's Florentine master, Cimabue painted the walls of the transept.

The authorship of "The Legend of St. Francis", traditionally attributed to Giotto di Bondone, has been disputed by many art historians since 1912. The written records for the monastery's accounts during this period were destroyed around 1800. Tradition has given to Giotto, the best-known naturalistic painter of his period, the authorship of these works, or at the least, the credit for having designed them.

There was, at the time of their creation, an active school of fresco-painters in Rome, whose style, judging by the scant remains, was very much more realistic than the Byzantine imagery of Tuscany, epitomized in the works of Cimabue and Duccio. The best known of the Roman school was Pietro Cavallini, an established master. However, very few frescoes of any sort from this period exist in Rome for comparison, and only a single Roman Church dates from this period. Many older churches were lavishly redecorated in following centuries and frescoes were destroyed.

It is now widely thought that the Upper Church frescoes were painted by at least three separate painters: the Master of Legend of St. Francis (the principal painter and probable supervisor of the cycle), the Master of the Obsequies of St. Francis and the Cecilia Master. A small group with a highly individual style are ascribed to the Isaac painter. Some art historians continue to support the authorship of Giotto and his workshop

Francis of Assisi - Wikipedia

Giotto - Wikipedia

feminine mysteries ... from the voynich manuscript to helen chadwick ...

my friend laura sent a link to a recent article about the enigmatic voynich manuscript

https://allthatsinteresting.com/voynich-manuscript-meaning

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

I then mentioned the tarot ... here is a link that will take you TOWARDS a Tarot scrapbook I compiled in my blog dated 6^th November 2022 …

https://thenewemotionalblackmailershandbook.blogspot.com/2022/11/#7119044435648120834

Looking through my archives, I thought the late and deeply lamented Helen Chadwick’s EGO GEOMETRIA SUM might amuse Laura.

Helen Chadwick was a hyper-active maker and shaper of things, she was studious, she loved to make extravagant experiments, and she was addicted to self-portraiture mixed with laughter.

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

here, Helen found ways of imposing photographs onto ten sculptures ...

She then moved on to produce the set of works named THE OVAL COURT

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

You will need to check out the large set of forty five V&A images … clicketty-click to access the complete set

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1032036/the-oval-court-sphere-chadwick-helen/

my favourite helen chadwick self-portrait is this one ... from the V&A's collection ...

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

Saturday, May 4, 2024

seraphim ... one of those words that cropped up in church but i never questioned it and it was never explained ... so i just had to look it up after seeing this beautiful blue ?Russian? image yesterday ...

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

... this is a scrapbook ... to be continued ...

Forgotten Lives ... the Chartist Thomas Cooper

Whilst doing a little study of Staffordshire Pottery figures a couple of years ago, I set aside the image of this double handled mug because of its "cultural improbability" ... i mean that it didn't fit in with my conceptual understanding of the place of suicide in public discourse ...