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In my computer room there is one large print by Coulson, my framed First Aider qualification, a large oil painting of Lytham Hall, a framed enlarged photo of my husband and I caught kissing at someone's party, a picture of my best friend and I dressed in basques and boas going to a Music Hall evening, a large pic of Alfie and a retro pic of Milly in her youth. There are several pics by little'un from school, a school timetable, two notice boards covered in all sorts of paraphernalia and tickets and a boxer dog calendar.
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #17 on: 23:25:20, 11-12-2007 » |
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Sadly, nope Tonybob. I seem to remember that there was a theme of the ethereal realms in the her paintings. When I saw an illustration of one my first thought was "That looks rather like a diluted Klimt" which, in a way, it was I suppose. Similar, recognisable yet different. I`m not helping am I?  |
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First page of the Kyrie from Ockeghem's "Missa Cuius Vis Toni", Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch", "A prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi" and various bills awaiting payment stuck to the wall.
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« Reply #19 on: 01:28:58, 12-12-2007 » |
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Mounted on (the other side of) my bedroom wall: my housemate and her bf. Ah; what's that I hear? They'e stopped now.
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MabelJane
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« Reply #20 on: 20:05:53, 12-12-2007 » |
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Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch",
 I wonder why he's holding that goldfinch. |
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Kittybriton
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« Reply #21 on: 21:00:43, 12-12-2007 » |
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A story from the " Golden Legend" tells how the infant Jesus and John (the Baptist) were both playing with clay. John made a little goldfinch and proudly showed it to Mary. Then Jesus breathed life into it and it flew away.
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« Reply #22 on: 21:06:30, 12-12-2007 » |
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Thanks, Kitty, no I didn't know that story.  |
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« Reply #23 on: 22:13:29, 12-12-2007 » |
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So, what's on YOUR wall?
Pick a room.
My computer room, which was one of the bedrooms - there's nothing on the walls, no pictures, not even a reminder board - I bought one to put up in here but the one in the hall doesn't get much use, so I've never got round to hanging it up. I do however have a 9-high stack of in/out trays which receive all the bits of paper which might otherwise go on the wall and I use the Sunbird calendar program extensively to remind me of things I've got to do. As far as pictures go, I'm not really into paper copies these days, most photos and prints look far better on my flat screen monitor and I think you appreciate them more if they're not always there on the wall but you have to make a little effort to look at them. |
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« Reply #24 on: 07:40:10, 13-12-2007 » |
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try as i might, i can't find an online copy of Da Vinci's 'Madonna of the Whelk'.
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« Reply #25 on: 13:55:12, 13-12-2007 » |
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According to Vasari's "Lives of the Artists" the original was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid during World War II, but I managed to find this 17th century copy.  |
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« Reply #26 on: 20:05:08, 13-12-2007 » |
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brings a tear to my eye every time.
just *look* at the light dancing off that whelk!
and what a brave move to paint a shelled whelk, and not the more (at the time) fashionable pickled whelk in a polystyrene cup.
genius.
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« Reply #27 on: 23:17:38, 13-12-2007 » |
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I long to see Ucello's "St John and the Turbot" once more..... Can you help me, Kitty?  Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #28 on: 02:20:37, 14-12-2007 » |
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Alas! I didn't manage to find Uccello's painting, but I did run across Bosch's painting of St.John's vision of the Celestial Turbot, on Patmos, inspired by the apocryphal Gospel of The Fisherman.  And one I hadn't seen before, Cavallino's "St. John". Rather unusual in its forward-looking visual metaphor.  Edit: I found the Uccello after searching for "Saint John and Brill". Fascinating, I wasn't aware that Ucello had painted the subject. He seems not to have known the story in detail though.  |
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« Reply #29 on: 08:28:19, 14-12-2007 » |
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Looking forward to seeing St Basil and the Kipper now!
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