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WHEN it opened in 1910, the 12-story Alwyn Court, at 58th Street and Seventh Avenue, attracted attention with its fabulously intricate facade.

Now the dark streaks of damaged terra cotta panels spot the landmark building, as the co-op that owns it evaluates repairs.

By 1900 Seventh Avenue around Carnegie Hall had New York's most important collection of apartment houses: the block-long Van Corlear, from 55th to 56th Street: the Rembrandt (New York's first co-op) at 152 West 57th; the massive Osborne at 201 West 57th and the eight-building Navarro Flats, stretching east from Seventh at Central Park South.

The apartment market had been invigorated by the new popularity of the co-op, a concept revived beginning in 1902 in a series of buildings on West 67th Street. Their sponsors were several artists, including Walter Russell. In early 1907 Russell had the architects Harde & Short begin work on the cathedral-front studio building at 44 West 77th Street. That summer Russell, working with the developer Alwyn Ball Jr., bought a Seventh Avenue plot at the southeast corner of 58th Street; in September the Real Estate Record & Guide said Russell would build a ''studio palace'' co-op, designed by the same architects.

For some reason Russell dropped out, and Ball reworked the project into one of the most lavish apartment buildings up to that time. The Alwyn Court had two apartments per floor, each with 14 rooms and 5 baths, renting for up to $10,000 a year; one 32-room duplex was offered at $22,000 per year. Harde & Short created a plan with a square, 12-story central light court and groups of entertaining spaces -- music room, living room, library, dining room, gallery and conservatory, which could be thrown together to create 2,000 square feet. In the typical apartment, the largest room was 18 by 30 feet.

Using the new medium of glazed terra cotta, Harde & Short developed the most intricate apartment facade in New York, executed by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company. The delicate, Gothic details at the entrance and the expanse of French Renaissance styling, all in light gray, rebuked the Victorian brick and brownstone of Seventh Avenue's earlier buildings.

The magazine Architecture praised the ''consummate skill'' of the terra-cotta work and the ''considerable charm'' of the entrance. But it added that while the design of the facade ''if made by a pastry cook, would be of the highest excellence . . . it can hardly be considered at all in the light of architecture.'' The overall result it said, ''defies description.''

In late 1909, the Alwyn Court opened to tenants. Most of them moved from private houses, like Jacob Wertheim, president of United Cigar Stores, who left a 50-foot-wide house at 5 West 76th Street to occupy the duplex. Another was Frederick Steinway; in 1925, as president of his family's piano company, Steinway moved the firm from East 14th Street to its new headquarters at 119 West 57th Street. In 1910 The New York Times noted that these new apartment houses could be just as palatial as private houses, but needed half as many servants. Repairs by the building staff were quick and it was easy to close up the apartment for travel; many tenants spent only a few months in the city.

Only five apartments had been taken by the night of March 4, 1910, when Patrick Quinn, a doorman, saw the reflection of flames in the windows of the Navarro Flats across 58th. He raced to alert the occupants, and Edward King and Robert Casson ran the elevator through the smoke until the motor shorted out.

No one was seriously hurt, although three housemaids, thinking the entire building was in flames, almost jumped from the roof to Seventh Avenue.

''Great Blaze Lights the City,'' said The New York Tribune on page 1, and 10,000 people watched; The Times described the Alwyn Court as ''a huge torch.'' The fire had started in an unoccupied apartment on the ninth floor, and broken through the windows; tongues of fire leapfrogged the blaze to the top.

Despite its luxury, the Alwyn Court was short on fire protection: with no fire escapes and without fire doors, its single narrow stairway served as a perfect chimney flue. There was no central standpipe so firefighters had to thread hose up floor by floor.

The damage was repaired and census records for the 1910's and 1920's indicate the Alwyn Court was fully occupied. But by the 1930's Seventh Avenue was no longer a desirable address and there were only six residential telephone listings in the building in 1936. By 1937 the building was empty.

The Dry Dock Savings Institution foreclosed and gutted the building in 1938, creating 75 apartments where there had been two dozen. Their architect, Louis S. Weeks, removed the heavy cornice and balustrade, and reworked the apartments to retain most of the large rooms.

The original corner entrance was closed, replaced with the present one on Seventh Avenue, and the new Alwyn Court was soon 100 percent rented, producing a gross income of $137,000 a year.

According to research by the architectural historian Andrew Alpern, one of the last tenants, John MacEnulty, salvaged four decorative stone lions for his house in Sands Point, L.I. The paneling from the Wertheim apartment -- described as taken from a French chateau -- was moved to the Squadron A Armory on 94th and Madison Avenue.

IN 1980, with a co-op conversion underway, the architects Beyer Blinder Belle supervised a $500,000 facade restoration, cleaning the terra cotta and replacing damaged blocks with cast concrete replicas. The artist Richard Haas painted a full-height trompe l'oeil mural in the central courtyard; with a new skylight, it became an atrium. The corner entrance was reopened as an entrance for a commercial tenant.

Now, 17 years later, the facade needs more work. Because large chunks of masonry are missing from the fifth-floor balcony, a sidewalk bridge has been erected on Seventh Avenue to protect pedestrians. Although the flat panels on the facade appear intact, about one-third of the window and balcony soffits are visibly damaged.

Gerard Meehan, the property manager for NRK Management, which oversees the building, says that last year a piece of terra cotta fell to the sidewalk. Now engineers are being interviewed, and any work will flow from a consultant's recommendations. Mr. Meehan says he doesn't think this project will be a major one.

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i've noticed that clare uses a lot of angel metaphors/similes in her writing but often times they are overused and don't make sense. i was reading chain of gold recently and found that matthew's face was described as looking like a "dissipated angel's." i don't know what this means and it does nothing to describe his appearance or even his facial expression. i also remember reading about a character who was described as looking like a michelangelo statue or something? the metaphor to the statue was very sudden and very out of place, just "he looked like [name of statue]" in the middle of the paragraph and i think the author was trying to be flowery and descriptive but it just made it seem overwritten and random, and comparing a character to a statue doesn't tell me anything about their appearance anyway. jace and sebastian were described numerous times as "bad angel boy" or "golden angel boy" in TMI, which got very repetitive very fast. clare often uses these comparisons on the characters she favours but doesn't do so for the characters she pushes to the sidelines - in chain of gold there were very many angel comparisons for james and matthew but none for christopher or thomas, which made it obvious which characters she preferred, as the former two were often in the center of the story whereas we didn't spend as much time with the latter two

So. Many. Also constant reminders of the angelic heritage of the Nephilim and angelic magic and the Angel and the angels and the angel blood. Rinse and repeat. There’s a lot of smiling like angels, looking like avenging angels (Jace and Julian especially), angel boys (yuck), and oddly specifically at least two references to Caravaggio’s paintings in the series. So I just had to:

CITY OF BONES

In the faint light she looked half-transparent, bleached of color, wrapped in white like an angel.

Isabelle

He looked like a fair-haired angel from a Rembrandt painting, except for that devilish mouth.

Jace

Her sketchpad, open to the drawing she’d been doing, the one of Jace with angel wings.

Counting this in because Jace = Angel

CITY OF ASHES

Jace had stood stiff and awkward by the bed, his face like a painted angel’s, with blank indifferent eyes.

This adds nothing to Jace's demeanor.

He really did look like an avenging angel getting ready to dispatch divine justice from on high, as the Shadowhunters were meant to do.

Jace. Avenging Angels score 1 point.

You may look like an angel, Jonathan Morgenstern, but I know exactly what you are.

Jace.

Standing between two of the burning candelabras, their light casting a pale gold overlay onto his hair and skin, he looked like a painting of an angel.

Jace.

CITY OF GLASS

Angels were walking on the glass—angels with white wings that hung bloodied and broken from their backs, and each of them had Jace’s face. And then there were other angels, with wings of black shadow, and they touched their hands to the fire and laughed...

Clary being high on Lake Lyn and imagining Angels = Jace

Isabelle’s whip came alive in her hand like the flaming sword of an avenging angel; she launched herself forward, her whip slashing down across the demon’s back.

Isabelle's whip scores another point for Avenging Angels (2).

Sebastian had come to a stop now, just in front of Jace, and was smiling like an angel.

Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (1)

Clary couldn’t blame him—it was hard to look at Sebastian, at his angelic smile, and imagine he could say these things.

Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (2)

Jace, Clary thought, on the other hand, all in white, looked like an angel. Albeit one of the avenging kind.”

Avenging Angels (3)

He looked barely fourteen as he climbed the stairs, his thin face calm and angelic, like a choirboy mounting the steps to the chancel.

Raphael.

“What did you get for your ninth birthday, little angel boy? A cookie?”

Angel Boy 1 (and cringe)

His hair was a white halo; he looked like the sort of bad angel who might have followed Lucifer out of heaven.

Sebastian.

“Little angel boy,” he said. “You’re a fool, aren’t you—just like my father always said.”

Angel boy 2 (and double cringe)

“You’re the angel boy. I had to hear all about you. You with your pretty angel face and your pretty manners and your delicate, delicate feelings."

Sebastian to Jace. Angel Boy (3)

Jace’s face was calm, the face of an angel dispatching divine justice.

CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS

She’d seen Jace do it, and he looked like a falling angel while he did, flying through the air, whirling and spinning with beautiful, balletic grace.

Jace = Angel

“Max smiled like an angel as Jace turned the knife toward himself, blade inward.”

Jace’s nightmare: Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (3)

CITY OF LOST SOULS

“Oh, yes, I was going to ask.” He smiled like an angel. “Is everyone looking for me?”

Jace: Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (4)

He still had the face of a little boy angel, though his gaze as he regarded Simon was cold.

Raphael. I’’m counting this as Angel Boy (4).

Shaking her hair out of her face, she carefully drew the Fortis rune at the juncture of shoulder blade and back, just where, if he were an angel, he would have wings.

Clary draws a rune on Jace who = Angel

”Come along, angel girl.” He held out his hand.

Sebastian to Clary. Yuck. And you thought this was going to be limited to angel boys? Oh nay nay.

“As for the angel boy, he will be the last of his kind to die.”

Some demons talking about Jace: Angel Boy (5)

He let his arms fall to either side of him, outstretched like wings, a broken angel, fallen out of the sky.

Sebastian = Fallen angel (because he is part demon ;D)

She thrust her arm forward to take it, and in that moment she was no longer Clary, his friend since childhood, but a Shadowhunter, an avenging angel who belonged with that sword in her hand.

Simon about Clary: Avenging Angels (4)

CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE

“You are making a mistake,” he said, “talking to me like this, angel boy.”

Sebastian to Jace: Angel Boy (6)

“I can feel the fire of Heaven in your veins, angel boy, burning under the skin,” he said.

Again Sebastian to Jace: Angel boy (7). You really need to let this word combination go.

“Jace, no,” Alec said, but his voice was drowned by the clamor that ran through the room, voices rising like smoke and curling up toward the ceiling, and Jace stood calmly, with his hands out, showing he had no weapons, his hair shining under the light of the runes. A sacrificial angel.

Jace = Angel

“You cannot win,” Matthias said finally, and Jace laughed, that sharp acerbic laugh Clary had first fallen in love with. Not a sacrificial angel, she thought, but an avenging one, all gold and blood and fire, confident even in the face of defeat.

Wait, scratch that. Avenging Angels (5). Also, who the hell was Matthias?

“The vampire had killed all his friends. I don’t know why he Turned Raphael instead. He saw something in him. Will, strength, beauty. I don’t know. He was a child when I found him, a Caravaggio angel painted in blood.”

Magnus to Luke.

The stars were coruscating, reflecting the fire back, red and gold and blue and orange. It was as beautiful and terrible as an angel.

The sight Jocelyn sees.

Never had Jace looked so much like an avenging angel, hurtling through cloud and fire.

I assure you, Jace has looked like an avenging angel at least three times by now. Avenging Angels (6).

“We have to show them,” he said, and his face was as immovable as an angel pronouncing a sentencing. “That we are unified. Prove yourself, Clarissa.”

Sebastian asking Clary to kiss him. What the fuck.

“Indeed it is,” said Asmodeus. “For none of you caught a Prince of Hell in his place of power; not even you, Jace Herondale, child of angels, or you, Clarissa Fairchild, with your tricks and runes.”

Aren’t they all?

“He smiled at Jocelyn like an angel, and then went over to the piano.”

Jace. Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (4)

CLOCKWORK ANGEL

“Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He’s very pretty, and vampires like that. I can’t say I mind either.” Magnus grinned.

About Will.

CLOCKWORK PRINCE

He had the ethereal look of angels in paintings, and though she knew that the silvery color of his hair and skin was a result of the medicine he took for his illness, she couldn’t help finding it lovely too.

Sophie about Jem.

His eyes were bluer than blue, his cheeks flushed, his features angelic.”

Bluer than blue. Roger that. (Will)

CLOCKWORK PRINCESS

“Have you been reading her letters?” Sophie looked furious, like some sort of avenging angel, lamp in hand.

This is hands down the best one. Avenging Angels (7)

LADY MIDNIGHT

Only he looked at Mark sometimes, when the others called him Nephilim and Shadow-spawn and angel-boy and other names much worse.

What could be worse than having to read “angel boy” (8) over and over again. This time with a hyphen.

After her came Emma. He registered her dress, but barely—that it was pale ivory, that it floated around her like angel wings.

Emma is like an angel

LORD OF SHADOWS

Evelyn looked irritably from Julian to Tavvy, who smiled angelically at her, showing off his dimples.

Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (5)

Julian didn’t move. He stared icily down at the faerie. He looked like a statue of an avenging angel, something blank and pitiless.

Avenging Angels (8)

QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS

Julian had always been rebellious at heart, but rarely openly. He smiled like an angel and said, “Why don’t you just tell us what you want?”

Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (6)

His eyes were closed, perfect half circles fringed with silvery lashes. He looked innocent, angelic.”

Ash.

Emma had always thought that Raphael, who had made his famous sacrifice to save Magnus Bane’s life, had an angelic face.

Simon and Magnus would agree.

She felt almost dizzy with it, as if she were rising above Zara to an immense height—looking down at her with the indifference of an avenging angel, a being of light gifted with power so great it had rendered them nearly inhuman.”

Emma adding for Avenging Angels (9)

Then Horace and Zara had come into the frame, striding across the grass, and because of the size of the Projection and the angle, they had looked like angels striding across the sky.

This is a bit different, because it is supposed to sort of “ridicule” their self-importance, not that they are awe-inspiring.

Emma whirled; Julian was behind her, the gleaming Mortal Sword in his hand. There was blood on him, and a bruise on his cheek, but with Maellartach in his hand he looked like an avenging angel.

Avenging Angels (10)

Expressionless as a statue of an avenging angel, Emma reached down and swept Jace out of the way.”

True Nephilim Emma: Avenging Angels (11)

They lay with their hands clasped together, their eyes closed, like angels who had fallen from heaven and now slept peacefully upon the earth again.

Emma and Julian after returning back to human form.

And when they caught alight at last, neither able to wait a moment longer, they were one person. They were incandescent as angels.

Emma and Julian having sex.

The Jace she knew had been beautiful as angels were beautiful: this Jace was older, haggard.”

About Janus. Jace = Angel

THE RED SCROLLS OF MAGIC

Magnus looked at the severe lines of his face and thought of the relentlessness of angels.

Alec.

THE LOST BOOK OF THE WHITE

Nothing besides that Alec is an “angelic warrior” that is afraid of spiders. Are surprised though?

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET

Jonathan Wayland, the child who fought like a warrior angel, looked intrigued.

Jace.

Sebastian and Janus both leaned forward, Janus sick with a pain he did not understand and Sebastian smiling like a guardian angel.

Smiling like an angel/Angelic smile (7)

CHAIN OF GOLD

Now he was a well-built young man, his hair darkened to bronze, with a face like a dissipated angel.

Matthew. Dissipated i.e. overindulgent in sensual pleasures? Angels like that? What? And you’re right, this tells us nothing how his face looks.

CHAIN OF IRON

He looked like an angel painted by Caravaggio and sugar-dusted with snow.

Matthew. I kind of hate how I have to go and google Caravaggio’s paintings of angels because Clare rather does not describe Matthew with her own words.

He tipped his head back to smile at Risa like a Botticelli angel.

Matthew.

He was so beautiful, so awfully, terribly beautiful, like a marble carving of an angel—but no carving had such dark, tumbling hair, such secretive eyes.

Jesse who I constantly forget.

Such variety, truly.

#City of Bones #City of Ashes #City of Glass #City of Fallen Angels #City of Lost Souls #City of Heavenly Fire #Clockwork Angel #Clockwork Prince #Clockwork Princess #Lady Midnight #Lord of Shadows #Queen of Air and Darkness #The Red Scrolls of Magic #The Lost Book of the White #Chain of Gold #Chain of Iron #Reply

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I Dipinti “Sopravvissuti” Della Gemäldegalerie A Berlino

“Il Kulturforum di Potsdamer Platz espone capolavori assoluti dell’arte europea dal ‘200 al ‘700, malgrado l’incendio del 1945 che distrusse 417 opere.

L’incendio della Flakturm Friedrichshain scoppiato nel 1945 e durato ben cinque giorni (dal 5 al 10 maggio) è considerato a buon diritto uno dei più grandi disastri della storia dell’arte. Nella giusta celebrazione in voga negli ultimi anni dei cosiddetti Monuments men, quasi mai si fa riferimento a questo episodio terribile contro cui nulla poterono i paladini dell’arte, e che cancellò per sempre migliaia di opere di inestimabile valore.

Tra i 417 dipinti distrutti – anche se c’è chi ancora oggi spera che alcune opere possano essere state trafugate e, chissà, esistere in qualche collezione privata – la Gemäldegalerie perse tavole e tele di Cranach, Andrea del Sarto, Signorelli, Caravaggio, Rubens, Goya, Friedrich, solo per citarne alcuni.

Resta un fatto comunque, che per gli appassionati di pittura tra i numerosi musei statali di Berlino (Staatliche Museen), la Gemäldegalerie rappresenta una tappa imprescindibile, grazie ai capolavori assoluti dell’arte europea dal ‘200 al ‘700, tra cui spiccano nomi come Dürer, Van Eyck, Botticelli, Raffaello, Tiziano, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto e molti altri.

La galleria, inaugurata nel 1830 nell’Altes Museum (oggi destinato alle collezioni di scultura antica), era originariamente costituita da tre fondi principali: i dipinti provenienti dai castelli reali, quelli della collezione seicentesca di Vincenzo Giustiniani, acquisita nel 1815, e infine quelli del mercante inglese Edward Solly. A queste opere si aggiunsero negli anni seguenti quelle acquistate da un gruppo di esperti appositamente ingaggiati, quali Wilhelm von Bode, Karl Friedrich Schinkel e Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Nel 1904 la galleria fu spostata nel nuovo Kaiser Friedrich Museum (poi divenuto il Bode Museum, oggi uno degli altri Staatliche Museen), all’interno della Museumsinsel.

Dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale e il terribile incendio della Flakturm Friedrichshain, una parte dei dipinti rimase a Berlino Est, nel Bode Museum, mentre la maggior parte fu portata dall’altra parte del muro, dove trovò posto a Dahlem.

Solo nel 1998 l’intera collezione è stata riunita nella nuova Gemäldegalerie, a cui è stata destinata una nuova sede ad ovest, nel quartiere Tiergarten, nel Kulturforum di Potsdamer Platz, costruito dagli architetti Heinz Hilmer e Christoph Sattler come centro culturale in grado di competere idealmente con la Museumsinsel, situata nel mitte e quindi nell’altro versante della città. Il nuovo grande museo copre una superficie di oltre 7000 metri quadrati, articolati in 72 sale disposte attorno a una grande aula centrale, la Wandelhalle, la “sala del cambiamento”, per un totale di circa 3000 opere esposte.

Difficile se non impossibile una selezione dei capolavori, tra cui però vanno senz’altro ricordati i diversi pannelli dello smembrato Polittico di Pisa di Masaccio, la tavola di Hieronymus Bosch raffigurante San Giovanni a Patmos e storie della Passione, Santo Stefano e sei suoi compagni consacrati diaconi da san Pietro di Carpaccio, lo splendido Amor vincitore o Amor vincit omnia di Caravaggio, il Perseo e Andromeda di Pieter Paul Rubens, la Donna con collana di perle di Jan Vermeer.

Impressionante la lunga serie di ritratti della collezione, che costituisce una sorta di museo nel museo, offrendo esemplari di altissimo pregio tra cui il Ritratto di Simonetta Vespucci e quello di Giuliano de’ Medici di Sandro Botticelli, il Ritratto di Ludovico Trevisano di Andrea Mantegna e il Ritratto d’uomo di Antonello da Messina, il Ritratto di fanciulla di Petrus Christus, quelli di Hieronymus Holzschuher e di Jakob Muffel di Albrecht Dürer, il Ritratto di Ugolino Martelli di Bronzino, e tanti altri ancora.

#I Dipinti “Sopravvissuti”#Gemäldegalerie - Berlino

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Aforismi sui cani

Aforismi sui cani Aforismi sui cani, citazioni, massime, pensieri, frasi celebri e riflessioni di autori e scrittori famosi e non sui nostri amici più fedeli e affettuosi. Smise di fumare allorché notò che al suo cane dava fastidio. Giuseppe Mazzini Chi non ha avuto un cane non sa cosa significhi essere amato. Arthur Schopenhauer Quando l'uomo si svegliò, disse: "Cosa sta facendo qui Cane Selvatico?". E la Donna rispose: "Il suo nome non è più Cane Selvatico, ma Primo Amico, perché sarà nostro amico per sempre e sempre e sempre." Rudyard Kipling Non esiste lealtà promessa e mantenuta in fondo, eccetto quella di un cane veramente fedele. Konrad Z. Lorenz Che il mio cane mi ami più di quanto io ami lui è un atto innegabile che sempre mi riempie di un sentimento di vergogna. Un cane è pronto in qualsiasi istante a sacrifgicare la sua vita per te. Konrad Z. Lorenz Quanto più brutto è un cane, tanto più i suoi padroni gli vogliono bene. Martyn Lewis Più gente conosco, e più apprezzo il mio cane. Socrate L'ideale di vita di Montmorency e mettersi tra i piedi della gente e farsi ingiuriare. Se riesce a introfularsi dove non è particolarmente ben voluto... allora avverte che la sua giornata ha avuto un senso. Jerome K. Jerome Il commissario Rex è un cane, perché gli altri cosa sono! Carl William Brown

Aforismi celebri sui cani Chiamarlo cane non sembra fargli giustizia, sebbene ammetto che in apparenza lo fosse in tutto, avendo quattro zampe, una coda e abbaiava. Ma per quelli di noi che lo conoscevano bene era un perfetto gentiluomo. Hermione Gincold Ho scoperto che, quando sei profondamente turbato, è maggiore il conforto che ti da la compagnia devota e silenziosa di un cane di tutto quello che puoi trarre da altre fonti. Doris Day II piacere primo, il più precoce, è quello che deriva dal contatto fisico. Ed è il contatto fisico che rende un animale da compagnia così prezioso per le persone sole. Dilys Powell I cuccioli sono il rimedio naturale alla sensazione di non essere amati... e per numerosi altri dolori della vita. Richard Allan Palm Il genere umano è attratto dai cani perché sono così simili all'uomo - affezionati, confusi, facilmente delusi, avidi di divertimento, grati per ogni gentilezza e per la minima attenzione. Pam Brown È dolce sentire l'onesto abbaio del cane da guardia che ci lancia un profondo benvenuto quando ci avviciniamo a casa; è dolce sapere che c'è un occhio attento che cura il nostro ritorno e si illumina quando arriviamo. Lord Byron Hai visto quello sguardo. Il modo in cui un giovane pittore contempla un Rembrandt o un Tiziano. Il modo in cui Liz Taylor guarda Richard Burton. Il modo in cui Zsa Zsa guarda il visone. È così che un cagnolino da compagnia guarda il suo padrone. Jacqueline Susann I nostri cani amano e ammirano anche il più meschino tra di noi e nutrono la nostra colossale vanità con il loro atto di deferenza privo di critica. Agnes Repplier Nessuno apprezza il genio molto speciale della tua conversazione quanto un cane. Christopher Morley Non dobbiamo guadagnarci la sua fiducia o la sua amicizia: è nato per essere nostro amico; quando i suoi occhi sono ancora chiusi, lui già crede in noi: prima ancora di nascere, ha già dato se stesso all'uomo. Maurice Maeterlinck Signore, io faccio la guardia! Se non sono qui io, chi curerà la loro casa o sorveglierà il loro gregge? Essere fedele? Nessuno oltre a me e Te capisce cos'è la fedeltà. Loro mi chiamano "Cane buono!", "Beel cane!" Parole… Anonimo Dietro ogni terranova, boxer, danese c'è un cucciolo che desidera solo accoccolartisi in grembo. Helen Thomson Se mi siedo su una panchina, me lo trovo improvvisamente di fianco, prima che si sdrai su uno dei miei piedi. È tipico infatti del suo modo di fare correre intorno quando anch'io sono in movimento, mentre quando mi siedo, mi imita subito. Thomas Mann II cane comune rivolge un'unica richiesta a tutto il genere umano: amatemi. Helen Exley Un cane ha un unico obiettivo nella sua vita: donare il proprio cuore. J.R. Ackerley

Frasi famose e ciotazioni celebri sui cani Un cane è l'unico essere su questa terra che ti ama più di quanto non ami se stesso. Josh Billings - Enry Wheeler Shaw I cani sono gli animali più socievoli, affettuosi ed amabili dell'intero creato. Edmund Burke Visitare un canile è un'esperienza estenuante - tutte quelle creature disperate che abbaiano a gran voce per catturare la tua attenzione. Per chi è tenere di cuore non è difficile venirsene via con una muta intera. Jilly Cooper La libertà individuale è la maggiore benedizione per un uomo, per un cane è l'ultima parola della disperazione. William Lyon Phelps Lo sapete che cosa hanno in comune un cane ed un ginecologo miope? ma è semplice, tutti e due hanno sempre il naso umido. Carl William Brown Lo sguardo fisso del lupo penetra nelle nostre coscienze. Berry Lopez Non sarà per molto non vuol dire nulla per un cane. Tutto quello che sa è che te ne sei ANDATO. JANE SWANLo spettacolo più triste del mondo è un cucciolo sperudoto che con la cosa tra le zampe se ne va in tondo. Arthur Gutterman No, Bobi! Non ho voglia di andare a fare una passeggiata - non mi sento in forma: preferirei starmene seduto a chiacchierare, o starmene seduto a leggere, o semplicemente starmene seduto. Fa molto caldo: c'è un sacco di polvere - non penso davvero di poter… beh, se fai quella faccia lì, devo - Sei il mio cane? No, sono io il tuo uomo. Robert Bell Una porta è quella cosa rispetto alla quale un cane si trova eternamente dalla parte sbagliata. Ogden Nash La creatura più affettuosa al mondo è un cane bagnato. Ambrose Bierce Montemorency arrivava e si sedeva sulle cose proprio quando volevi metterle a posto. Ficcava le zampe nella marmellata, tormentava i cucchiaini di caffè, faceva finta cheilimoni fossero topi e si tuffava nella cesta, uccidendone tre. Jerome K. Jerome Un cane crede che tu sia quello che pensi di essere. Jane Swan La maggior parte dei cani non pensano di essere umani, lo sanno. Jane Swan Qualsiasi cosa sia, è buona" - è il tuo benevolo credo. Il tuo ornamento, la tua gioia di vivere portata come fosse una corona. Dorothy Parker Cuccioli in vendita: l'unico amore che il denaro può comprare. Cartello affisso in un negozio. Compra un cucciolo e investirai il tuo denaro in un amore costante. Anonimo La storia offre più esempi della fedeltà dei cani di quella degli amici. Alexander Pope Il cane esitò un istante, ma quasi subito prese a fare qualche approccio con la coda. Il bambino allungò la mano e lo chiamò. In maniera plateale, il cane si avvicinò a lui, e i due ebbero uno scambio di amichevoli pacche e dondolii. Stephen Crane È così peloso! Gli ospiti si divertono un sacco quando si alza in piedi e si rendono conto improvvisamente di avere parlato all'estremità sbagliata. Elisabeth Jones Un cane è un sorriso e una coda che si agita. Tutto quello che c'è in mezzo e non è poi così importante. Clara Ortega

Aforismi, massime, citazioni famose sui cani I bassotti sono cani ideali per i bambini piccoli, dato che sono già stati tirati e schiacciati così tanto che un bambino non potrà più fare loro molto male in un senso o nell'altro. Robert Benchley Guardate gli occhi di un cane che dorme e vergognatevi della vostra profonda filosofia. Elias Canetti Fa una vita da cani, dice la gente piangendo - ma perchè... fai tutto il giorno esattamente quello che ti va di fare; dormi prima di ogni pasto, e dopo. La gente dovrebbe saperlo! A.P. Herbert L'uomo era disteso sul pavimento, ubriaco fradicio e privo di conoscenza. Il cane, sdraiato al suo fianco, sembrava guardarmi con occhi tristi, imploranti. Sebbene il mondo intero disprezzasse quell'uomo, il povero animale lo amava e gli sarebbe stato fedele fino alla morte. Robert Service La maggior parte delle persone che hanno un cane alla lunga imparano ad obbedire al loro compagno a quattro zampe. Robert Morley Più conosco gli uomini e più mi piacciono i cani. Madame De Staël Il cane ha avuto raramente successo nel far salire l'uomo al suo grado di sagacia, ma l'uomo è spesso riuscito a trascinare giù il cane al suo livello. James Thurber Se raccogli dalla strada un cane che sta morendo di fame e lo rifocilli, non ti morderà. È questa la differenza fondamentale tra un uomo e un cane. Mark Twain Naturalmente, quello che lui sogna con più intensità è di essere portato a fare una passeggiata, e tanto più ti mostrerai indulgente, tanto più lui ti adorerà, e tanto più la bellezza latente della sua natura trasparirà. Henry James È arrivato un cagnolino! -arrivato a colmare il vuoto lasciato da amici falsi e interessati. Già vedo che è senza invidia, odio o malizia - che non tradirà i miei segreti e non soffrirà se avrò successo, né proverà piacere della mia sfortuna. George Eliot Ogni cucciolo dovrebbe avere un ragazzino. Erma Bombeck Il cane è stato creato soprattutto per i bambini: è il dio del divertimento Henry Ward Beecher Uno degli spettacoli più tristi è quello offerto da un danese malato. I suoi grandi occhi sono l'immagine della sofferenza: un danese fa di tutto, infatti, quando si sente malato, per ottenere amore e simpatia, esageran do i sintomi. Barbara Woodhouse Se fossero esaudite le preghiere di un cane, pioverebbero ossi dal cielo. Proverbio Un cane ben addestrato non tenterà di dividere con te il tuo cibo. Semplicemente, ti farà sentire così in colpa da non riuscire a gustarlo. Helen Thomson Un cane desidera il tuo affetto più della sua pappa. Beh - quasi. Charlotte Gray Forse ci sono dei paesi, nei quali, venendo paragonati a un cane, si acquista in breve maggiore importanza, salendo nella scala sociale. Essere chiamati cani potrebbe rivelarsi una cosa poi non così brutta. John Richard Stephens Durante gli scavi effettuati a Pompei per riportare alla luce le rovine della cittadina campana, investita dalla lava vulcanica nel 79 d.C., venne rinvenuto un cane sdraiato dopra un bambino. L'animale, il cui nome era Delta, portava sul collare il racconto di come avesse salvato per ben tre volte la vita del suo padrone, tale Severinus. John Richard Stephens Il sentimento per i cani è quello stesso che nutriamo per i bambini. Sigmund Freud La facoltà di compatire non è propria del solo uomo. In casa mia v'era un cane che dal un balcone gittava del pane ad un altro cane sulla strada. Giacomo Leopardi Sugli animali domestici potete anche leggere: Riflessioni e pensieri sui cani Aforismi e pensieri sui gatti Riflessioni sugli animali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7awj63Om8bA Aforismi per autore Aforismi per argomento Riflessioni e pensieri Saggi e aforismi Read the full article

#amico #amore #animale #cagnolino #cani #cuccioli

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nerdycrownsandwich · 6 months

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(a 'colorful' peacock with 'white' feathers)

For a definition of the term "camp" in this context, see Susan Sontag's "A Talk on Camp", which looks like this To paraphrase Wikipedia's introduction,

Synopsis

Christopher Isherwood is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Except for a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel The World in the Evening (1954), [camp] has hardly been published."[6] In Isherwood's novel, two characters are discussing the meaning of camp, both upper and lower class. The main character, Stephen Monk, says:

Did you think it meant a little boy with hydrogen peroxide-dyed hair, a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be Marlene Dietrich? Yeah, in queer circles they call that camping. ... You can call it low camp... High camp is the whole emotional basis of ballet and baroque art, for example ... High camp always has an underlying seriousness. You can't camp about something you don't take seriously, you're not making fun of it, you're enjoying it, you're expressing something that's basically serious in terms of fun and finesse and elegance... Baroque art is basically camp about religion. Ballet is camp about love...[7].

Examples are then given: Mozart, El Greco, and Dostoevsky are in camp, but Beethoven, Flaubert, and Rembrandt are not.

There's also a great article about kitsch and camp, which I won't link to because it's too long, but it goes something like, "The theme of the 2019 Met Gala show was 'Camp: a podium for fashion.'" As if that one sentence wasn't illustrative enough (Google it and you'll get a bunch of photos of celebrities dressed in "campy" looks at the time).

1 Ryo Asuka is the originator of the white-haired (bleached hair) antagonist male character.

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namenerdery · 7 months

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Babies with interesting names born in Missouri in 2021 [O, P, Q & R]

-note that this dataset didn't include gender so your guess as to whether a name belongs to a girl or boy is as good as mine-

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allelitewrestling1 · 10 months

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AEW DARK - EPISODE 53

Taped: September 10, 2020 Aired: September 22, 2020

Jacksonville, FL - Daily’s Place

Commentary: Excalibur, Taz, Veda Scott, Ricky Starks

-Evil Uno & Stu Grayson d. Fuego Del Sol & Rembrandt Lewis

-Ricky Starks d. Christopher Daniels

-The Butcher & The Blade d. Puf & Calvin Stewart

-Will Hobbs d. Serpentico

-The Lucha Bros. d. Maxx Stardom & Dontae Smiley

-Alan “5” Angels & 10 d. Ryzin & Xander Gold

-Joey Janela & Sonny Kiss d. Daniel Garcia & Kevin Blackwood

-Billy & Austin Gunn d. M’Badu & Cruz

-Serena Deeb d. KiLynn King

-Ben Carter d. Lee Johnson

-Eddie Kingston d. Brian Pillman Jr.

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nikolettphotographylevel3 · 11 months

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My portraiture photography inspired by Rembrandt

My photographs I would like to create in studio, were inspired by these 2 paintings.

Saskia with flower

Saskia with a Flower is a 1641 oil on canvas portrait by Rembrandt of his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh, now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. It is also known as Saskia with a Red Flower, Saskia with a Carnation or Saskia as Flora.

Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 – 21 July 1663) was the long time partner of Rembrandt. The couple were unable to marry because of the financial settlement linked to the will of Rembrandt's deceased wife Saskia, but they remained together until Hendrickje's death. In 1654 she gave birth to Rembrandt's daughter Cornelia. In the later years of their relationship Hendrickje managed Rembrandt's business affairs together with the painter's son Titus.

Hendrickje is widely believed to have modelled for several of Rembrandt's works and to be depicted in some Tronie portraits. However, her role as Rembrandt's model is disputed by some critics.

Relationship with Rembrandt

Hendrickje obtained work as Rembrandt's housekeeper, and seems to have lived with him from approximately 1647, at first as a maid, but fast becoming much more. This led to an acrimonious fallout with Rembrandt's previous live-in lover Geertje Dircx, who sued Rembrandt for breach of promise in 1649, and demanded maintenance payments from him. Hendrickje testified in the case, confirming that a financial agreement had been reached with Geertje. In the same year Hendrickje returned to Bredevoort for the summer (possibly with Rembrandt accompanying her), and is there mentioned as a witness to a christening in the Bredevoorts church records. The Eighty Years' War was past, and peace was finally reaching even the eastern Netherlands.

In 1654, when she was pregnant with Rembrandt's daughter, Hendrickje had to appear before the Council of the Reformed Church for "living in sin" with Rembrandt, who was a widower and 20 years her senior. She admitted to "unwedded cohabitation" with Rembrandt and was banned from receiving communion. On 30 October 1654, the couple's daughter Cornelia van Rijn was baptized in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Rembrandt and Hendrickje lived together as common law husband and wife until her death in 1663.

Initially, Rembrandt's unwillingness to marry Hendrickje had a pecuniary motive: by marrying her he would have forfeited the inheritance of his first wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. Even with this inheritance he had major financial problems, but without it he would have been bankrupt. But then in 1655, Titus – the son he had with Saskia – turned 14, and thereby eligible by law to make his will. Rembrandt immediately made sure that Titus installed him as his only heir and by that he outwitted Saskia. Still, he did not marry Hendrickje.

As Rembrandt's dealer

By 1656 Rembrandt was forced to declare bankruptcy. In 1658 he lost his house, and he, Hendrickje, Cornelia and Titus moved into rented property in the Jordaan. In the same year, Hendrickje, who got along well with Titus, opened an art shop with Titus’ help where she sold Rembrandt’s paintings. In order to protect him from his money lenders Hendrickje and Titus became his employers.[9] In this way his former maid Hendrickje Stoffels had become his boss – at least officially. Her biographer Christoph Driessen believes that Rembrandt’s noticeable productivity in the early 1660s was caused by the obvious support Hendrickje was rendering him. She was organizing his life for him and prevented his complete downfall after his bankruptcy.

In May 1663, the plague arrived in Amsterdam and killed thousands, especially at the end of the year. It is not clear Hendrickje was a victim of the epidemic as she was the only one who was buried in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam on 24 July 1663.

In Rembrandt's art

Hendrickje may have been a model for

Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654).

Though there are no paintings that are explicitly identified as depictions of Hendrickje, there are a number of portraits, nudes and other images which appear to depict the same woman, who is often assumed to be Hendrickje. A portrait in the National Gallery, London is identified as her "based on the knowledge of the sitter's relationship with the artist, and the informality and affection with which she is represented. She is seated wearing a fur wrap and jewellery. There are a number of other portrait-like images that appear to depict the same woman. However, Rembrandt scholar Eric Sluijter is sceptical of attempts to identify Hendrickje in Rembrandt's work, writing that,

If one compares the large number of etchings, drawings and paintings with the purpose of recognizing Hendrickje it appears more often than not that there is little mutual resemblance between all the candidates. It is surprising how, still, in recent art historical literature numerous works are identified as Hendrickje Stoffels as a matter of course.

Sluijter suggests that the broad similarity between the faces of women in Rembrandt's paintings suggest that he tended to portray an "ideal type".

Hendrickje is also traditionally identified as the model for a number of nudes, especially the painting Bathsheba at Her Bath. She would have been 28 at the time of the painting. Sluijter has proposed otherwise, stating that Rembrandt would be very unlikely to portray his partner's own recognisable face on nudes to be sold publicly.

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