tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23297570925453038582024-03-14T10:48:45.484-07:00Truth and Beauty Paintings, Musings, and Travel by Shanelle DeaterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-87290174546175277412015-04-08T21:32:00.000-07:002015-07-03T21:33:40.409-07:00Biblioteca Casanatense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The Biblioteca Casanatense welcomes curious visitors into this perfect example of a grand, early 18th century library. Cardinal Casanate began the public library in 1701 over the stables of a Dominican monastery. The library grew over time from 25,000 to 400,000 volumes, including about 6,000 manuscripts, 2,200 incunabula (books printed between 1451 and 1500), banned books from the Inquisition, and even some of Albrecht Durer’s woodcuts.</div>
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Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer in 1515. The image was based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon earlier that year. Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. In late 1515, the King of Portugal, Manuel I, sent the animal as a gift for Pope Leo X, but it died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy in early 1516. A live rhinoceros was not seen again in Europe until a second specimen, named Abada, arrived from India at the court of Sebastian of Portugal in 1577, being later inherited by Philip II of Spain around 1580.</div>
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Dürer's woodcut is not an entirely accurate representation of a rhinoceros. He depicts an animal with hard plates that cover its body like sheets of armour, with a gorget at the throat, a solid-looking breastplate, and rivets along the seams. He places a small twisted horn on its back, and gives it scaly legs and saw-like rear quarters. None of these features are present in a real rhinoceros. Despite its anatomical inaccuracies, Dürer's woodcut became very popular in Europe and was copied many times in the following three centuries. It was regarded by Westerners as a true representation of a rhinoceros into the late 18th century. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-82373786008844486662015-04-07T21:52:00.000-07:002015-07-03T21:53:46.097-07:00Luca Palermo, Botanical Illustrator<div style="text-align: center;">
At the home of Luca Palermo, Botanical Illustrator</div>
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Luca became interested in botanical illustration in 1979. After graduating with merit in medicine and surgery, Luca started to work professionally as a botanical artist, exhibiting his works in London, Oxford, prior to Italy. He also started to teach painting in a variety of institutions including ‘Naturalistic illustration and painting’ at l'Università Popolare di Roma U.P.T.E.R and Centro Studi Arti Floreali. He gave seminars on ‘Botanical Illustration’ at Rome Botanical Garden at the La Sapienza university and taught ‘Painting Techniques’ at L’accademia di costume e Moda in Rome. In 2009 Luca finished 175 paintings for the project “Dioscoride Napoletano” under the direction of Naples Botanic Garden; a monumental work of translation, classification and iconographic reconstruction of vegetables described by Pedanio Dioscoride di Anazarbo in “On medicinal material.” His work can be found in The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (his Taraxacum was purchased by Queen in 1985), The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, The Shirley Sherwood Collection, The Fitzwilliam Museum, the collections of Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, and COINOR, Ateneo “Federico II” di Napoli and Mapes Monde at St. Thomas, Virginia. Luca holds a gold RHS medal for his series of Chinese peonies.</div>
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An 1863 excavation of the house of Livia Drusilla (58 BCE–29 CE), wife of the Emperor Augustus, in the Roman suburb of Prima Porta uncovered a series of four magnificent frescoes decorating the walls of an underground triclinium, or dining room. These illusionistic wall paintings are filled with images of exotic birds and a variety of flowers, plants, and trees. The flora and fauna were, in fact, depicted in such great detail that scholars have been able to identify many of the species represented. Among the vegetation, for instance, are strawberry trees, oleander, Italian cypresses, date palms, and English oak. These images were surely intended to provide visual entertainment for guests and likely contributed a sense of comfort and openness to the subterranean space. </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-76316794250324955502015-04-07T20:07:00.000-07:002015-07-03T20:10:22.040-07:00The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs and the Baths of DiocletianSanta Maria degli Angeli, is a unique Renaissance church in Rome. Designed by Michelangelo, it was built inside the Roman walls of the Baths of Diocletian. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to the angels, and to the Christian slaves who died building the baths.<br />
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The Baths of Diocletian were the largest thermae ever built in Rome. The complex, constructed in the early third century, could accommodate an estimated three thousand people. Parts of the bath complex have survived thanks to their incorporation into newer structures. The baths were built between 298 and 306 AD by Maxentius who had the complex named Thermae Diocletiani, after Emperor Diocletian.<br />
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For Romans, bathing was a social event and the huge bathing complexes reflected their importance in Roman society. A visit to a bath complex like that of Diocletian started in the apodyterium, where visitors stored their clothes. They then progressed to the frigidarium (the cold water), the tepidarium (warm water) and the caldarium (hot water). Some visitor went to the sudatorium (sauna) before going to the caldarium. Men and women bathed separately.<br />
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But a visit to the baths was more than just about getting clean and relaxed. People came here to socialize, discuss politics, recount daily events and gossip. It was also a fitness and leisure center: there was a swimming pool, a massage room and complexes like that of the Baths of Diocletian boasted amenities such as sporting facilities, libraries and meeting halls.<br />
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The Baths of Diocletian measured 356 meters long and 316 meters wide (about 1200 x 1000 ft) and were the largest of the approximately nine hundred bath houses in Rome. The enclosed complex was structured similarly to the Baths of Trajan and Baths of Caracalla, with a central axis around which the actual baths were located. Water was led to a large water basin via the Aqua Iovia, a branch of the Aqua Marcia aqueduct.<br />
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The transept of the basilica is located in the tepidarium (luke-warm bath) of the Baths of Diocletian. It was first adapted by Michelangelo, and then altered by Lo Duca and Vanvitelli. The cross vault is 29 metres high, and the columns 17.14 metres including bases and capitals, with a diameter of 1.62 metres. Eight of the columns are from the baths, while the other eight are imitations covered with stucco. The eight large paintings that decorate the transept were originally in St. Peter's Basilica and were moved here in the 18th century. The floor was laid in the 18th century by Giuseppe Barbieri.<br />
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On the left side is the Meridian Line, a sundial laid down along the meridian that crosses through Rome, at latitude 15º. At true noon, about 12.15 pm (1.15 pm in summer time), the sun casts its light on this line. Part of the cornice on the right side of the transept wall has been cut away to provide the effect. The markings were made by the astronomer, mathematician, archaeologist, historian and philosopher Francesco Bianchini. Bianchini had been commissioned by Pope Clement XI to make them for the Holy Year of 1700. It took a bit longer; they were completed in 1703 with the assistance of the astronomer G.F. Maraldi.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-34557970041434635842014-04-26T18:04:00.000-07:002015-07-03T19:21:57.821-07:00Reading Museum and the Bayeux Tapestry Replica<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Reading Museum Town Hall is a fine example of Victorian gothic architecture, it is here that we came to see the replica of the Bayeux Tapestry. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The original Bayeux Tapestry is preserved and displayed in Bayeux, in Normandy, France. Nothing is known for certain about the tapestry’s origins. The first written record of the Bayeux Tapestry is in 1476 when it was recorded in the cathedral treasury at Bayeux as "a very long and narrow hanging on which are embroidered figures and inscriptions comprising a representation of the conquest of England".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror. It is over 70 metres long and although it is called a tapestry it is in fact an embroidery, stitched not woven in woolen yarn on linen. Some historians argue that it was embroidered in Kent, England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was the idea of Elizabeth Wardle to make the replica Bayeux Tapestry, now on display in Reading Museum. She was a skilled embroiderer and a member of the Leek Embroidery Society in Staffordshire. Her husband, Thomas Wardle was a leading silk industrialist. Elizabeth Wardle researched the Bayeux Tapestry by visiting Bayeux in 1885. The Society also based the replica on hand-colored photographs of the tapestry held by the South Kensington Museum, now called the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The aim of the project was to make a full-sized and accurate replica of the Bayeux Tapestry "so that England should have a copy of its own".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thirty-five women members of the Leek Embroidery Society worked under Elizabeth Wardle's direction. This ambitious project was completed in just over a year. As well as members from Leek, women from Derbyshire, Birmingham, Macclesfield and London took part. Each embroiderer stitched her name beneath her completed panel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The tale told by the Bayeux Tapestry is t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he story of William the Conqueror and Harold, Earl of Wessex, the men who led the Norman and Saxon armies in 1066. William's defeat of Harold at the Battle of Hastings ensured the success of the Norman invasion of England.</span><br />
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The library is based upon the book collection of English botanist John Lindley, and has many rare books dating from 1514. It also includes other media such as garden guidebooks, trade catalogues, postcards and press cuttings. As well as horticulture, the collection covers flora, birds and other related subjects. The Lindley Library is the largest horticultural library in the world.<br />
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Elizabeth Koper gave us a delightful tour which included works by Ehret, 16th century illustrated books, contemporary botanical artworks by accomplished artists such as Fiona Strickland, and royal signature pages. She also spoke about the application process for the annual RHS botanical art show.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-28833877214359055472014-04-14T19:36:00.001-07:002014-04-14T19:36:45.746-07:00Flemish TechniqueThe Flemish Technique, practiced by master painters in 16th century Flanders builds great depth of color, ensures a full value range, and helps with accuracy in realism. I recently documented a painting of pansies that I did in the Flemmish Technique. I really enjoy this technique as it breaks everything down to manageable steps and builds such rich depth in the painting that you just can't seem to get with a direct painting method. It is very interesting that paintings done in the Rennaisance will outlast any done afterward. They just get more beautiful and transparent with age. Museums spend a lot of money trying to care for more modern collections in which the artists didn't understand the chemistry, materials or techniques behind good works of art. <br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-21275883829519237352014-03-19T08:49:00.001-07:002014-03-19T08:49:27.113-07:00The Berger Crucifixion: Art and Revelation in Early Fifteenth Century EnglandDr. T.E. Heslop, a specialist in medieval and Renaissance English art and architecture and professor of early English art at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England spoke last night at the Denver Art Museum on the Berger Crucifixion which is one of the best preserved English devotional panel paintings of the 15th century. <a href="http://www.bergercollection.org/?id=5&artwork_id=42">http://www.bergercollection.org/?id=5&artwork_id=42</a> The painting will go on view on level 6 of the North Building in early March for the first time since 1999. <br />
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I particularly enjoyed the medieval discussion about whether or not it was appropriate to paint images for worship vs. using the images to raise people's thoughts toward heaven. It is of many people's opinion that these medieval paintings are poorly executed - lacking in perspective, proportion, etc. however, I think one should look at the purpose of such works. <br /><br />The story of the two thieves at Christ's crucifixion is as follows: Two men were crucified at the same time as Jesus, one on his right hand and one on his left. According to Luke:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">39</span> Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us." <span style="font-size: xx-small;">40</span> The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, "Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? <span style="font-size: x-small;">41</span> And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal." <span style="font-size: xx-small;">42</span> Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." <span style="font-size: xx-small;">43</span> He replied to him, "Amen I say to you today you will be with me in Paradise."<br />
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According to tradition, the Good Thief was crucified to Jesus' right hand and the other thief was crucified to his left. For this reason, depictions of the crucifixion often show Jesus' head inclined to his right, showing his acceptance of the Good Thief. The thief's conversion is sometimes given as an example of the necessary steps one must take to arrive at salvation through Christ: awareness of personal sin, repentance of sin, acceptance of Christ and salvation's promise of eternal life. Also noteworthy about the painting is how the Bad Thief is portrayed as having his back toward Christ and his face is in shadows. These paintings had a story to tell so the background was not as important as the cast of characters and their countenance, which was executed relatively well. These paintings were very readable at a glance.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Unknown British artist, The Crucifixion (detail), about 1395. Tempera and oil with gilded tin relief on oak panel. Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-64271750893570991692014-03-07T16:20:00.001-08:002014-03-07T16:20:07.244-08:00Sketching Birds at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science<br />Members from the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists went down to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to draw birds behind the scenes. I believe the Collections Manager said that the displays only constitute 0.2% of their collection.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-4725962309060276482013-09-02T22:15:00.000-07:002014-02-25T13:49:25.890-08:00Alexander ViazmenskyWe met up with Alexander Viazmensky at our hotel. He took time away from mushroom season in the country to visit with us. I love his happy mushrooms.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-23867244002441777662013-09-02T22:11:00.000-07:002014-02-25T13:48:39.122-08:00Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of SciencesThe Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg, and is named after the Russian botanist Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869-1945).<br />
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The institute hosts Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden as well as herbarium collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and fungi. The latter is the largest collection in Russia, and among the three largest in the world.<br />
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We got to see flora and fauna illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian that had been mostly hidden from the public eye. During a trip to Amsterdam in 1719, Peter the Great encountered a collection (144 illustrations) of watercolors by a little-known female artist. The tsar was entranced by the opulent color, exquisite detail and refined lines of the collection - pictures of flowers, plants, sea creatures and insects, each depicted with remarkable scientific accuracy. Peter brought the watercolors back to St. Petersburg and with them opened Russia's first museum. After Peter's death, the paintings were given to the Academy of Sciences, where they have resided ever since.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-3466643951720650172013-09-01T21:10:00.000-07:002014-02-25T13:46:44.400-08:00Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Hermitage is one of my most favorite museums in the world. The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.<br />
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Of six buildings of the main museum complex, four, named the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and New Hermitage, are partially open to the public. The other two are the Hermitage Theatre and the Reserve House. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-65944429270102585912013-08-31T21:50:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:58:18.417-08:00St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, RussiaSt. Isaac's Cathedral was originally the city's main church and the largest cathedral in Russia. It was built between 1818 and 1858, by the French-born architect Auguste Montferrand, to be one of the most impressive landmarks of the Russian Imperial capital. One hundred and eighty years later the gilded dome of St. Isaac's still dominates the skyline of St. Petersburg.<br />
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The cathedral's facades are decorated with sculptures and massive granite columns (made of single pieces of red granite), while the interior is adorned with incredibly detailed mosaic icons, paintings and columns made of malachite and lapis lazuli. A large, brightly colored stained glass window of the "Resurrected Christ" takes pride of place inside the main altar. The church, designed to accommodate 14,000 standing worshipers, was closed in the early 1930s by the communist soviet government. Under the Soviet government, the building was stripped of religious trappings and reopened as a museum. Today, church services are held here only on major ecclesiastical occasions.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-31194005007291518162013-08-31T21:38:00.000-07:002014-02-25T13:28:21.254-08:00Mikhailovskiy Palace, State Russian Museum<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The State Russian Museum (formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg.<br />
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The museum was established on April 13, 1895, upon enthronement of Nicholas II to commemorate his father, Alexander III. Its original collection was composed of artworks taken from the Hermitage Museum, Alexander Palace, and the Imperial Academy of Arts. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many private collections were nationalized and relocated to the Russian Museum.<br />
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The main building of the museum is the Mikhailovsky Palace, a splendid Neoclassical residence of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich, erected in 1819-25 to a design by Carlo Rossi on Square of Arts in St Petersburg.<br />
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My favorite part of the museum was its collection of iterate artists (Peredvizhniki). In 1863 a group of fourteen students decided to leave The Imperial Academy of Arts. The students found the rules of the Academy constraining; the teachers were conservative and there was a strict separation between high and low art. In an effort to bring art to the people, the students formed an independent artistic society; The Petersburg Cooperative of Artists (Artel). In 1870, this organization was largely succeeded by the Association of Traveling Art Exhibits (Peredvizhniki) to give a chance to people from provinces to follow the achievements of Russian Art, and to teach people to appreciate art. The society maintained independence from state support and brought the art, which illustrated the contemporary life of the people from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, to provinces.</div>
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From 1871 to 1923, the society arranged 48 mobile exhibitions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, after which they were shown in Kiev, Kharkov, Kazan, Oryol, Riga,Odessa and other cities.</div>
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Peredvizhniki were influenced by the public views of the literary critics Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Belinsky thought that literature and art should attribute a social and moral responsibility. Like most Slavophiles, Chernyshevsky ardently supported the emancipation of serfs, which was finally realized in the reform of 1861. He viewed press censorship, serfdom, and capital punishment as Western influences. Because of his political activism, officials prohibited publication of any of his writing, including his dissertation; but it eventually found its way to the artworld of nineteenth-century Russia. In 1863, almost immediately after the emancipation of serfs, Chernyshevsky’s goals were realized with the help of Peredvizhniki, who took the pervasive Slavophile-populist idea that Russia had a distinguishable, modest, inner beauty of its own and worked out how to display it on canvas.</div>
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Peredvizhniki portrayed the many-sided aspects of social life, often critical of inequities and injustices. But their art showed not only poverty but also the beauty of the folk way of life; not only suffering but also fortitude and strength of characters. Peredvizhniki condemned the Russian aristocratic orders and autocratic government in their humanistic art. They portrayed the emancipation movement of Russian people with empathy (The Arrest of Propagandist; Refuse from Confession; Not Expected by Ilya Yefimovich Repin).</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-30581558075135970102013-08-30T21:03:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:48:03.603-08:00Boat to St. Petersburg, RussiaWe took the boat overnight to St. Petersburg, Russia. I have never seen so much herring before. They must have had at least herring 40 different ways.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-56211718604622960702013-08-30T20:52:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:36:54.261-08:00Kalevalakoru and FazerWe visited Kalevalakoru which makes jewelry out of gold, silver and bronze with motifs from the iron age and Viking era, then stopped by Fazer confectionary shop. We were introduced to Finnish licorice which is rather unique. Salty licorice, also known as salmiakki or salmiak, is a variety of licorice flavoured with ammonium chloride, common in the Nordic countries, Netherlands, Baltic States and Northern Germany. Ammonium chloride gives salty licorice an astringent, salty taste (hence the name), which has been described as "tongue-numbing" and "almost-stinging." Salty licoorice is an acquired taste and people not familiar with ammonium chloride might find the taste physically overwhelming and unlikeable.<br />
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There was a licorice-flavored icecream bar that wasn't too bad - otherwise it was quite overwhelming to me.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-68905420181777714052013-08-30T20:49:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:34:54.761-08:00Finland's National Archives, Helsinki128 shelf kilometers (79 miles) of archived material from 1316 and after.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-79686077069477462812013-08-29T20:46:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:33:05.859-08:00Design Museum, HelsinkiOur guided tour of the museum focused on Finnish Textiles and weaving tradition.<br />
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Design Museum is a museum in Helsinki devoted to the exhibition of both Finnish and foreign design, including industrial design, fashion, and graphic design. The museum, which is 140 years old, was first founded in 1873 but has operated in its present premises, a former school, designed by architect Gustaf Nyström in 1894 in the neo-Gothic style, since 1978. <br />
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The museum includes a permanent exhibition devoted to the history of Finnish design from 1870 to the present day, as well as space for changing exhibitions. The museum's permanent collection consists of over 75,000 objects, 40,000 drawings and 100,000 drawings. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-44867696834468975882013-08-29T20:38:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:32:38.460-08:00Ateneum, HelsinkiAteneum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland and one of the museums of the Finnish National Gallery. It is located in the centre of Helsinki at the Rautatientori square opposite Helsinki Central railway station. It has the biggest collections of classical art in Finland. Previously the Ateneum building also housed the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and University of Art and Design Helsinki.<br />
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The collections of Ateneum include extensively Finnish art all the way from 18th-century rococo portraiture to the experimental art movements of the 20th century. The collections also include some 650 international works of art.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-41193472186863127212013-08-29T20:34:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:26:16.472-08:00Finnish National MuseumThe museum collections include also the Mesa Verde artifacts from the cliff dwellings of Colorado. These were dedicated to the museum by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer Gustaf Nordenskiöld. They comprise the most-extensive collection of Mesa Verde items outside the United States and one of the largest collections of native Americana outside the American continents.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-78666519453156182762013-08-29T13:50:00.000-07:002014-02-25T13:56:28.694-08:00Rya Rugs and Market Square<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-68919152257721050192013-08-28T20:14:00.000-07:002014-02-25T12:23:08.519-08:00Road Trip to HelsinkiWe drove to Nuutajarvi Lasikyla where glass has been blown continuously since 1793. It was the 220th anniversary year for this oldest glass manufacturing site in Finland.<br />
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We continued on to Visavuori, the Jugend style home and studio of sculptor Emil Wiktrom.<br />
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Then we journeyed on to the Ittala Glass Museum for a guided tour of the museum and glass factory.<br />
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To finish up we stopped by Hwitrask for a guided tour of the monumental home and atelier of architects Saarinen, Gesellius and Lindgren.<br />
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A rya is a traditional Scandinavian wool rug with a long pile of about 1 to 3 inches. They were made using a form of the Ghiordes knot to make the double-sided pile fabric. Though rya means "rug" in English, the original meaning in Sweden of rya was a bed cover with a knotted pile. The first ryas originated in the early fifteenth century as coarse, long-piled, heavy covers used by mariners instead of furs.<div>
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The museum was first opened in 1995 as two independent museums. Originally, plans were for only Ars Nova, the contemporary art museum, but during its construction a number of structures and artifacts dating back to the Middle Ages were discovered, and the archaeological excavation that was commissioned eventually transformed into Aboa Vetus.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14608921400076362915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329757092545303858.post-70129714265396774292013-08-27T18:48:00.000-07:002014-02-25T11:56:57.591-08:00Turun Linna CastleTurku Castle is a medieval building in the city of Turku in Finland. Together with Turku Cathedral, the castle is one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland. Turku Castle is the largest surviving medieval building in Finland. It was founded in the late 13th century and stands on the banks of the Aura River.<br />
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