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In a two part post Joseph Massey, Team Assistant, explores how the concept of ‘Great Britain’ hugely intrigued Jacobean cartographers, historians, poets and playwrights.

When James VI, King of Scots, ascended to the English throne as James I, his succession resulted in the Union of the Crowns as England and Scotland now shared a monarch. However, they remained independent kingdoms because the English and Scottish parliaments refused to legislate a formal union. Despite this on 20 October 1604, James declared himself ‘King of Great Britain’—though in reality England and Scotland remained separate countries until 1707.

Many people asked what was Great Britain? What did it mean to be British? Had Great Britain already existed in the distant…

“In this landmark of Neoclassical painting from the years immediately preceding the French Revolution, David took up a classical story of resisting unjust authority in a sparse, frieze-like composition. The Greek philosopher Socrates (469–399 B.C.) was convicted of impiety by the Athenian courts; rather than renounce his beliefs, he died willingly, discoursing on the immortality of the soul before drinking poisonous hemlock.”

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Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates,” in Smarthistory, October 26, 2022, accessed January 30, 2023, https://smarthistory.org/jacques-louis-david-the-death-of-socrates/.

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Many thanks to Friedrich Zettl for introducing me to this video in his post Project in the home straight – almost.

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Frederick Carl Frieseke at wikiwand

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Frederick Carl Frieseke At Sunnyside

Frederick Carl Frieseke at Google Arts and Culture

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I’m circling back to writing up the last of the Lithuania-related cultural events that I experienced last year, with a Lithuanian psychological thriller that I saw in October at the second London Baltic Film Festival, held at Riverside Studios. I could have watched several Baltic movies over the course of a weekend, but in the end only made it to only the one screening, which was followed by a Q&A with writer and director Laurynas Bareiša.

Pilgrims (Pilgrimai) is a gritty 92-minute film, which was screened in Lithuanian with English subtitles. It was shot during lockdown on a low budget, in and around a B&B that is featured in the film, and was selected to represent Lithuania in the Best International Feature Film category at the 2023 Oscars. It won the Orrizonti award for Best Film at the Venice Biennale in 2021.

The movie focuses on Paulius and…

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Renoir at Musee d’Orsay

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