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Nicolette originally derived as a French diminutive of Nicole, the French feminine form of Nicholas meaning “victory of the people” coming from Ancient Greek Nikolaos made up from nike (victory) and laos (people), both deriving from PIE root words.

Origin: Proto-Indo-European

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Variants:

• Nicoletta (Italian)
• Nicole (French, English, Dutch, German)
• Nichole (English)
• Nicollette (English)
• Nichola (English)
• Nikola (German, Polish, Czech, Slovak)
• Nicola (German, Czech, English)
• Nikole (Basque, English)
• Nikkole (English)
• Nicolina (Italian)
• Nikolina (Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian)
• Nikoleta (Greek)
• Nikol (Czech, Bulgarian)

Male forms:

• Nicholas (English)
• Nikolaos (Ancient Greek)
• Nikolaus (Latinized Ancient Greek)
• Nickolas (English)
• Nikola (Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Czech, Basque, Medieval Slavic)
• Nicola (Italian)
• Niccolo (Italian)
• Niccolò (Italian)
• Nicolò (Italian)
• Nicolao (Italian)
• Nikolai (Russian, Bulgarian)
• Nicolai (Danish, Norwegian)
• Nikolay (Russian, Bulgarian)

Loralin is an English female name, either an elaborated form of Lora, a variant spelling of Laura meaning “laurel’ from Latin laurus; a variant of Laureline, a French diminutive of Laura; or it could be a combination of Lora and Lynn, derived from Welsh meaning “lake” derived from Gaelic linne (pond, pool, waterfall).

Origin: Latin, Gaelic

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Variants:

• Laureline (English, French)
• Loralyn (English)

One of the admittedly flawed measures of the ‘importance’ of an artist is the strength and extent of their influence. In Ferdinand Hodler’s case, this is difficult to assess because of our current limited insight into the arts in central Europe in the early twentieth century.

Few people outside Austria, for instance, have heard of Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926), who at the time was regarded as being as important an artist in Austria as Gustav Klimt. Despite Egger-Lienz’s protestations, there can be no doubt that Hodler’s paintings were a major influence over his art. In this article and its second, concluding part, I hope to show you how.

Egger-Lienz was born close to the mediaeval town of Lienz in the Austrian Tyrol, in the south-west of the country. Initially named Ingenuin Albuin Troja, he was the illegitimate son of a local church painter and photographer, and the daughter of a farmer…

#OTD 1951 Berlin celebrated the re-opening of one of the city’s most popular department stores: Karstadt am Hermannplatz.

When the splendid 1929 building, designed by Philipp Schaefer and modelled on the American skyscrapers of the time, was blown up on April 15, 1945 by the SS troops – Division Nordland (mostly French volunteers) led by SS Brigadenführer Gustav Krukenberg – to prevent it from being captured and occupied by the fast approaching Red Army, the nearly 72,000 m² of space were turned over 55,000 m³ of rubble.

Mme Angelique Catalani de Valabregue, J.F. Moeller, 1829. Courtesy of National Museum of Denmark

On Saturday 1st May 1813 at the King’s theatre a serious disturbance broke out, proceeding apparently a call from the audience for the reappearance of Madame Catalani, who had withdrawn her services from the theatre as they had not paid her monies owed for…

via Riot at the King’s Theatre in 1813 – All Things Georgian