Between Sailors by Alfred Guillou, oil on canvas 1890.

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor - Lazar Berman #piano
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The massive Rose Window in the south Transept of Chartres Cathedral, with Christ enthroned in Heaven at its centre, dates back to 1224. Over 10.5 metres across (34 ft), it’s just one of more than 170 stained glass windows in the church (photo: PtrQs, Wikimedia Commons)

On this day, the 26th April 1248, King Saint Louis IX of France consecrated one of the glories of Western Christendom - the Saint-Chapelle of Paris...

Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670)

Portrait of a Girl in Pale Blue with an Ostrich Feather Fan, 1645.

Her name is lost to history but her dress has been exquisitely rendered, the sheer organza over the expensive lace and pearls is very fine. Just lovely.

National Gallery

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Jef Bourgeau

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Portrait of the Doge Francesco Venier, 1556 #titian #tizianovecelli wikiart.org/en/titian/port…

Le Chemin du Marché, Finistère
Émile Auguste Hublin
1878

The muse Terpsicore by A. #Canova (1757-1822) #marble #fineart

Faure: Nocturne N° 6 in B flat, Op. 63 - Michel Dalberto #piano
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George de La Tour (1593-1652), was a French Baroque painter famous during his lifetime but forgotten until the 20th Century, when his work was rediscovered by several researchers.
'A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player' (1620/30), probably the last daytime painting de La Tour painted.

“Archaeologists already knew that Plato was buried somewhere in the Platonic School in Athens, however, this latest revelation has pinpointed his burial to a private garden near the so-called Museion or sacellum sacred to the Muses.

Furthermore, the text has revealed that Plato…

Thomas Moran (1837-1926). American landscape painter of English origin. His artistic work was decisive for the creation of Yellowstone National Park.
'Canyon of the Yellowstone' (1893 to 1901), is an idealized view or an environment untouched by civilization in the late 19th C.

Portrait of Stanhope Alexander Forbes by Elizabeth Adèla Forbes, oil on panel circa 1900.

Full moon through Gothic tracery tonight and the owls are out a-hunting.

FRANCE

Yet another church burnt to the ground, this time in Bringolo

early results from the charred scroll decipherings via ML

this has to be an incredibly exciting time for classicists

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

-St. Francis of Assisi