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Scenes from Raphael in Rome
Raphael, an inspiration to artists everywhere!
When I went to Rome last month (yes, it was HOT), I was able to pay homage to Raphael, more than 500 years after his death in 1520.
One of my biggest joys was finally visiting the Villa Farnesina in Trastevere, where my favorite Raphael painting is located. I had to walk there because there was a two-day taxi strike in Rome and no easy way to get there on transit from my hotel. Finally I was rewarded with this street name after crossing the Tiber:
The Villa Farnesina, built in the early 16th century by Sienese banker Agostino Chigi, is tucked just off the Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio and is a quiet and verdant oasis, although the gardens were unfortunately closed off.
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Sketching in Aberdeen, summer 2022
Brilliant- particularly like the cabin view!
Here is a house in Firhill Place, Aberdeen, near the University.
I sketched it from a coffee shop called “Grub”, on Orchard Street.
Here’s Aberdeen Town House, with its marvellous turrets.
Aberdeen Town House was built in 1868-74 by John Dick Peddie and Charles George Hood Kinnear. It incorporates the remaining part of the Tolbooth of 1615-29 by Thomas Watson of Old Rayne at the east, and includes the City Chambers to Broad Street, added in 1975 by the Aberdeen City Architect’s Department, with Ian Ferguson and Tom Campbell Watson as its chief architects.
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200406609-aberdeen-town-house-castle-street-aberdeen-aberdeen
The building on the left of my sketch is the brutalist structure “City Chambers” covered in a tessellation of rectangles of grey marble. Its foundation stone was laid on 17th November 1975, according to the inscription…
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Italian wikiwand “Ballerine dietro le quinte“
Google English translation of the Italian wikipedia page
Note
I found several different names for this painting on various websites.
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The Eagle – Alfred Lord Tennyson
It seems to me that some aspects of this poem prefigure The Imagists that came along a little later-especially as it is so short.
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1850 - 1892)
When I first started taking an interest in poetry this poem was given to me as an entry point to define poetic expression in terms of a simple text. It certainly did that and looking at it again today it still invokes admiration.
L1 … Rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration and then personification as claws are transformed into hands. We have become the eagle. Clasps give strength to the fact of maintaining a strong hold. It gives a sense of safety. The many times I go to a lookout I make sure I am safe as I look down.
L2 … Of course, the…
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Mariam Batsashvili: Serenade
Mariam Batsashvili plays Liszt: Lieder aus Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang, S. 560: No. 7 Ständchen, Discover Mariam Batsashvili’s Romantic Piano Masters album here: https://w.lnk.to/rpmLY
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, c1921-22, oil on canvas 147.3 x 86.4 cm, Image Source: Christie’s
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I’ve read 11 books so far this summer, and this review of Aminatta Forna’s 2010 The Memory of Love is review number 8.
Forna was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father. However, she spent much of her childhood in Sierra Leone, where her activist father was murdered by the authorities when she was 11 (and which she has written about in her memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water).
Forna’s novels are often interested in how people deal with trauma (I’ve previously read her 2018 novel, Happiness), and The Memory of Love, published in 2010, is no exception, set in an unnamed Sierra Leone, against a background of lives marked by unrest and civil conflict.
The story has a dual timeline, each featuring an intense love triangle. The first thread of the story focuses on the memories of a dying man…
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Great Suffolk Street, Railway arch
These are lovely. I’ve been reading about Nevinson and these are a touch similar.
Huge brick arches carry the railway lines into Waterloo Station. Here is a view looking North up Great Suffolk Street.
This is a packaging monoprint. It is an intaglio print from a “plate” made from a milk carton. Here is the plate:
I’ve described the process in this blog post: Print plates made of packaging. The basic method is to use the shiny metallic surface inside the carton. I cut out the shapes I want and peel back the shiny surface to reveal a rougher surface which takes the ink. The yellow colour you see on the plate is shellac, a varnish that I paint on to make the plate last a little longer.
The plates are quite fragile, and can only…
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