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Kees van Dongen (Dutch, 1877-1968), Dolly Sisters, 1925

The Dolly Sisters were true celebrities of Parisian nightlife in 1925. Their most famous show, A Vol d’oiseau, was a headliner for eight years in Paris. Renowned not only for their talent as dancers but also for their lavish weddings, relationships with wealthy men, their love of sport and racing and their sumptuous collection of jewelry, these two sisters perfectly summed up the world of the Années Folles that Van Dongen so loved to depict.

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No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck, ‘East of Eden’

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (1902 – 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. 

During his writing career, he authored 33 books. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. 

Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.

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Moving sheep to a new field

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Astronomy

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn align with the Pyramids of Giza for the first time in 2,737 years on December 3, 2012.

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Biblical Art

Marc Chagall - ‘David & Bathsheba’ - Lithograph 13/75

Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-Jewish modern artist who attended quite particularly to his religious life and tradition. Many of his themes were of Biblical subjects, and he seemed to have a sense of Divine participation in his work. He said, “When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art.”  

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Biblical Art

Angelos Akotantos (Cretian Greek, .... - 1450) - Icon of Resurrection of Christ

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John Constable (English, 1776-1837) - ‘A Cottage in a Cornfield’, 1817

John Constable, RA was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as “Constable Country”

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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, “See! This our father did for us.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin, 1819-1900, was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

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Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675) - The Astronomer, 1668

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She tells her love while half asleep

She tells her love while half asleep,

In the dark hours,

With half-words whispered low:

As Earth turns in her winter sleep

And puts out grass and flowers

Despite the snow,

Despite the falling snow.

- Robert Graves (British, 1895-1985)

It catches perfectly the trance of new love, perhaps love as yet undeclared, the dawning realization implied in “half-words”, the reticence and delicious hesitation of one who right now, right here is discovering herself, or himself, new-fledged in love. 

The shift in scale that permits identification with the Earth turning towards rebirth in spring is brought perfectly home in the poem’s masterstroke, the repetition of “Despite the snow” and, even more, the suspension of time in that amplifying “falling”.

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The Books of the Bible - Old Testament and New Testament

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On every side we hear men saying that the Bible is the Word of God, teaching mankind true blessedness, or the path to salvation… We see that nearly all men parade their own ideas as God’s word, their chief aim being to compel others to think as they do, while using religion as a pretext. We see, I say, that the chief concern of theologians on the whole has been to extort from holy scripture their own arbitrarily invented ideas, for which they claim divine authority.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. One of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. -  Ecclesiastes 1:9

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Nijenrode Castle, Breukelen, The Netherlands

Nyenrode Business University is a Dutch business university and one of the five private universities in the Netherlands. Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate in the town of Breukelen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht. The educational institution is named after the castle where the course is located: Nijenrode castle.

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Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903) - ‘La récolte des pommes à Éragny’ (Apple harvest at Eragny), 1888

A country painting with light and radiant shades: under an apple tree, four characters participate in a harvest of these fruits that you can barely see in the tree.

This is a veritable hymn to nature: under a bright sun, a peasant harvests the apples, while two squatting women collect the fruits on the ground.

We see them, their backs broken, leaning towards the ground filling wicker baskets ... The gestures, the posture of the characters restore the hardness of the task ...

Only one woman observes the scene attentively, motionless, her eyes fixed on the apple tree.

The sun is there, it illuminates the landscape and we see the shadow cast by the tree on the ground ...

Pissarro was flexible in his use of divisionism, or pointillisme, which correctly refers not to a small dot, but to a “stitch” of paint. Since 1880 the artist had been using a variety of increasingly small, punctuation-like brushstrokes in his painting, from which his transition into Neo-Impressionism seemed an inevitable step, newly informed with the science of tested and proven color theory. Each square inch of La récolte des pommes à Éragny comprises a wealth of layered hues, glinting as if in sunlight, evoking a luminous world woven in myriad filaments of paint.

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The Netherlands

Culemborg - Binnenpoort

Culemborg, formerly also spelled Kuilenburg or Kuylenburgh, received city rights in 1318. For a long time, Culemborg was independent from any counties or duchies in the Netherlands. The city had gained the right of toll collection and the right of asylum: it was a so-called 'Vrijstad' (free city).  

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Heinz Ketchup ...

Ketchup Napoleon for Du Jour magazine, French cooking making a comeback in the US.

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