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Saint Michael the Archangel at the Rotunda, Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES

#saint michael archangel #gasson hall #rotunda #chestnut hill #boston college #massachusetts #united states #america

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La Scultura del giorno: l'Arcangelo Michele trionfante del Tadolini

La scultura del giorno che vi propongo oggi è l’Arcangelo Michele trionfante scolpito da Scipione Tadolini, ubicato nel cuore del Gasson Hall, l’edificio gotico più rappresentativo del Boston College. Al centro di una sala a pianta rotondeggiante, adornata con dipinti a olio, si eleva l’imponente scultura plasmata dal Tadolini nel 1869: è il San Michele che trionfa nella lotta contro il…

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#antonietta bandelloni #artblogger #bellezza #english #La scultura del giorno #sculpture #scultura

[mynocturnality]

Michael the Archangel (Photo by Caitlin Cunningham), Gasson Hall

#art #beauty #history #historic places #art history #boston #angel #aesthetics #gasson hall #statue #angel statue #mynocturnality #dark academia

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#Boston College #statue #gasson hall #Saint Michael #scipione tadolini

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Michael The Archangel, Gasson Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

#St Michael The Archangel #San Michele Arcangelo #San Michele #Boston #Boston College

[hangingfire]

How the Franklin Expedition ruined Charles Dickens’s marriage

Originally posted at: How the Franklin Expedition ruined Charles Dickens’s marriage at hangingfire.net

Yes, it’s a clickbait headline. No, I’m not sorry. Because history is fucking weird sometimes, and here’s how.

(I’m posting this in honor of The Terror Appreciation Week on Tumblr. Apologies for not sticking closely to the daily themes; I hope no one minds that I’m using this as an opportunity to dump some interesting historical tidbits I’ve picked up over the last year.)

Recently the world of Victorian scholarship had a small stir over letters from Edward Dutton Cook, a friend late in life of Catherine, Charles Dickens’s wife. She confided much about her life with Dickens to Cook, particularly this bit which is what’s really got people going (my emphasis):

he discovered at last that she had outgrown his liking. She had borne ten children and had lost many of her good looks, was growing old, in fact. He even tried to shut her up in a lunatic asylum, poor thing! But bad as the law is in regard to proof of insanity he could not quite wrest it to his purpose.

More details in the Times Literary Supplement and via the University of York.

Dickens’s marriage seems to have been pretty well on the rocks by the time he became infatuated with actress Ellen Ternan (and you can read a fascinating account of how the scandal “went viral” in this paper by Patrick Leary). But how he met her is the bit that’s of interest to the Franklinologist.

The play The Frozen Deep came about in 1856. It was written by Wilkie Collins, but Dickens had his hands deep in the production (he and his daughters played some of the roles), and it was written in reaction to the findings of John Rae’s expedition in search of Franklin. As all we Franklin nuts know well: in 1854, Rae had submitted a report to the Admiralty stating that:

From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource—cannibalism—as a means of prolonging existence.

And instead of keeping his report confidential, the Admiralty made it public.

Reaction was swift and horrified, and Dickens put Rae and his Inuit sources on blast. He wrote articles insisting that no good Christian Englishman would have stooped to such depravity and also went full-bore racist, insinuating that the Inuit probably killed and ate the explorers themselves. Highlights:

We believe every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel; and we have yet to learn what knowledge the white man — lost, houseless, shipless, apparently forgotten by his race, plainly famine-stricken, weak, frozen, helpless, and dying — has of the gentleness of Esquimaux nature. […] We submit that the memory of the lost Arctic voyagers is placed, by reason and experience, high above the taint of this so easily-allowed connection; and that the noble conduct and example of such men, and of their own great leader himself, under similar endurances, belies it, and outweighs by the weight of the whole universe the chatter of a gross handful of uncivilised people, with domesticity of blood and blubber.

And so: The Frozen Deep, a play penned by Collins under Dickens’s heavy guidance. In it, a young woman fears her fiancé has been lost in an Arctic expedition, and there’s a doomy Scots nursemaid (possibly a dig at Rae, a Scotsman) who pronounces all manner of gloomy portents—“who goes about the house like an ominous enchantress, muttering of awful visions which come to her from ‘the land o’ ice and snaw’” as a review describes it. There were a few private and semi-public performances in 1857, followed by a production at the Manchester Free Trade Hall as a benefit for the widow of Douglas William Jerrold. Dickens decided a couple of the performers (in roles originally played by his daughters) should be replaced by professionals … including a Mrs. Francis Ternan and her daughters Mary and Ellen.

And thus did Ellen Ternan enter Dickens’s life. Probably the Dickens marriage was at a point where any sufficiently strong motive would have occasioned the separation that ended it, but his infatuation with her does seem to have been the proverbial camel-breaking straw. And all thanks to Dickens’s upset about the Franklin Expedition.

Sources:

“The Frozen Deep.” Wikipedia. Wikipedia.org, 30 November 2018.

Bowen, John. “Unmutual Friend”. Times Literary Supplement. 19 February 2019.

University of York. “Letters reveal Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylum”. University of York News, 20 February 2019.

Fleur. “The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins”. Fleur in Her World. 16 November 2009.

Dickens, Charles. “The Lost Arctic Voyagers”. The Victorian Web. 5 March 2005.

Gasson, Andrew. “The Frozen Deep: A Drama in Three Acts”. Wilkie Collins Information Pages. February 2019.

Leary, Patrick. “How the Dickens Scandal Went Viral”. Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870. Mackenzie, Hazel and Winyard, Ben, eds. Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press, 2013

Levy, Walter. “Charles Dickens and the cast of The Frozen Deep”. Picnic Wit. 2014.

Rae, John. “Part III. The following is Dr. Rae’s report to the Admiralty…” An Earnest Appeal to the British Public on Behalf of the Missing Arctic Expedition. Pim, Bedford, ed. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857.

Stanford University. “Charles Dickens: A brief biography”. Discovering Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities. 2002.

#history's great dick moves #charles dickens #theterrorappreciationweek #history #victoriana #franklin expedition

[vladtheunfollower]

Michael the Archangel, Gasson Hall

#art

[architecture-anddesign]

Gasson Hall, Newton, MA [OC] [754 x 1334]

#architecture

[artschaser]

- Sculpture of archangel Michael conquering Lucifer - Boston College, inside Gasson Hall. In the year 1865 Mr. Gardner Brewer, who at that time resided at 29 Beacon street, Boston, asked M. le Chevalier Scipione Tadolini, a famous Roman sculptor, a pupil of the great Canova. to model an allegorical figure of St. Michael overcoming Satan. Immediately Tadolini set to work to think on his subject; having formed his conception, he procured a single block of the finest Carrara marble and began his masterpiece. In the meantime, while his skilled artists assisted him, he modeled an imposing pedestal which is in itself a work of art. Boston College is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, founded in 1863. https://ift.tt/31cih2B

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Gasson Hall, Newton MA [OC] [754 x 1334] via /r/ArchitecturePorn https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturePorn/comments/emjd3o/gasson_hall_newton_ma_oc_754_x_1334/?utm_source=ifttt

#architecture #aesthetic

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Image Rollover Script: Grow and Shrink

Here you see the image of Gasson Hall grow quite large when you hover the mouse over it. When you take the mouse away, it shrinks

[hk416notm416-blog]

Final Assignment #8

I find Minecraft rather hard to play, and I think that’s probably because with all the other more “fun” games I have I simply cannot get the passion I need to really care about it. Its hard mechanics and archaic graphics are a big turnoff to me.

When I first started playing this game earlier in the semester I thought I was going to be so passionate about it that I’d build a Gasson Hall in it some day, turns out I cannot be more wrong.

I think the reason why it’s so popular is because most of its players are kids, who seem to never stop doing things (imagining, really), and this game gives them just the platform they need to let their imagination roam.

[akrnyc]

Check me out featured on @kyle_cavan’s instagram - love my gold Gasson Hall necklace 💕

#kyle cavan #jewelry #minimal #minimalism #gold #necklace #boston college #boston #college

[tommeurs]

Gasson Hall, Newton, MA [OC] [754 x 1334]

#architecture #design #awesome