https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=Blake+Jerusalem
... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Sunday, September 19, 2021
revision time ... just gathering some links and images ... the blue stone circle ... which may have been quarried, built and dismantled in wales ... and re-erected at stonehenge ...
Photograph by “Horatio” at The Megalithic Portal website.
My Question is … Were the Waun Mawn Stones moved all at
once, or as part of an annual pilgrimage between wales and the durrington walls party ?
The two quarries … one up high, the other down in the valley
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2019/03/stonehenge-bluestones.page
From THE GUARDIAN, 12th February 2021
From ANTIQUITY, 12th February 2021
From WIKIPEDIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waun_Mawn
From THE MEGALITHIC PORTAL website
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1340
Saturday, September 18, 2021
cattle in neolithic times ... it looks as if cattle may have been used for haulage much earlier than we used to imagine ... this has possible implications for the story of how the blue stones might have been moved out of west wales
Modelling the Arrival and Spread of Domesticated Cattle into Neolithic Britain
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14614103.2018.1536498
How we know about the use of cattle in neolithic times
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-discovered-that-europeans-used-cattle-8000-years-ago
The early movement of cattle out of iran and anatolia, the genetic history of domesticated cattle
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445560/
Was the relationship of humankind and cattle very different in Neolithic times ?
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/55559409/FULL_TEXT.PDF
Neolithic people feasted on beef in great gatherings near Stonehenge
https://www.ft.com/content/ee245550-b3fa-11e7-aa26-bb002965bce8
Small cattle in neolithic western europe, descendants of those from the middle east, may have been mated with the larger native aurochs
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/623063
Some suggest that Stonehenge might stand on an ancient migration route of prehistoric cattle, the Aurochs ...
https://brian-mountainman.blogspot.com/2013/04/stonehenge-and-aurochs-migration-route.html
evidence in the bones of cattle suggest their being burdened 6,000 years ago ...
https://theecologist.org/2019/jan/24/humans-burdened-cattle-6000-years-ago
English Heritage have a very good educational website about Neolithic living ...
Monday, September 6, 2021
self-portraits, ii ...
alice austen
samuel fosso
alphonse mucha
umberto brunelleschi
bernard fleetwood walker
bruno surdo
john byrne, again
elliott erwitt
fragonard
antoine coypel
flandrin freres above ... hippolyte flandrin below
hyacinthe rigaud 1698 and 1730
ingres, 1835 and 1858
NOTE: any discussion of self-portraiture is superficial until we take into account the very existence of MIRRORS ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror
ernst heineger, 1950 ... and ... 1960s
angelica kauffmann 1781 and 1784
jonathan richardson 1729 and 1731
sir francis chantrey, 1800 and 1802
sir allan ramsay
thomas patch
sir george hayter 1820s
george chinnery 1832 and 1840
david octavius hill and robert adamson, 1840s?
sir george scharf, 1870s