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In Memory of John Baldessari - Afraid of Sculpture
John Baldessari has passed away last Thursday. In memory of the artist we publish the latest conversation we have had with him in the context of his presentation at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht.read more
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Adrián Villar Rojas
The Oude Kerk presents Poems for Earthlings, an extensive and site-specific installation by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas (Rosario, 1980). Judith de Bruijn & Madelon van Schie talked with the artist in this immersive environment.read more
Blowing up the castle... Imagine that! - Bik Van der Pol on their show in Warsaw's CCA
Bik Van der Pol's soloshow at the Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art showcases and reworks the institution's history and collection, amidst controversies concerning the sudden appointment of a new director by the government.read more
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Zero-Eq (Zero Emission Quasar) is an italian trio of synth-pop/native electronic music.
After some self publishing we released:
2012 - Bugged Karma with the glorious A Different Drum Records (Thanks Todd for all youve made for electronic music through the years. Sorry to know you had to quit)
2014 - The Fall (EP) With SRR an italian growing label.
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Since I retired from many years of client research work, and from the genealogy lecture circuit, I anticipated long, lovely days of freedom from deadlines. Freedom to compile my own family histories, and to pursue some of those unsolved client problems that still itch—problems that might contribute to the literature on case studies. Never mind some aspiration to fiction writing!
Now I am wondering where my time management went, if I ever had it. To be up front about my dependency, I am wed to my computer—this box that sits under my desk, the monitor that shows me everything, and the keyboard in front of me. "Wed" may be the wrong word. It's more like a life-support medical apparatus without which I am lost. It's also called freaking-out desperation by this techno-dummy if the computer crashes or the email program goes wonky.
Staying in touch with the (overwhelming) news of the genealogy world is absolutely necessary, given my stated aspirations. One must keep up with the activities of local groups and subscribe to email lists, as well as tend to the ever-growing list of favourite bookmarks. One must continue to learn the latest offerings and changes of important research centres. One must know the guidelines for articles submitted to different journals and magazines. So far, so good. In times past, I could have two cups of coffee first thing in the morning and fairly quickly dispense with the daily computer check-in ... with hours to spare for my real work.
What is happening now? Almost everyone I know, and sometimes their dog or cat, has a blog. I'm not guilt-free myself. And of course I need to know what my colleagues and friends have opinions about. So how did it get to be the afternoon and I am still mesmerized, actually petrified (original meaning intended) in a sitting position that cries for immediate exercise. Where is my lunch? Why is the fridge empty? The electronic revolution seems to have a downside.
My brain is so stuffed with interesting information I'm in danger of not enough mental filing cabinets. Should I throw out useless and amusing bits of trivia to make space for today's allotment? Is that what they mean by garbage in, garbage out? Housecleaning is part of good time management, n'est-ce pas? In theory this would work if one had perfect control of the inflow and outflow—probably a matter of practice and discipline. In my case, the outflow can include the inadvertent oblivion of such essentials as how to make the DVD player work, pin numbers, user names, passwords, my children's birthdays, and how my mother made hard-boiled eggs. Why would the pot want to boil itself dry?
I remember an archivist speaking once in admiration of a remarkable genealogist who used to work in their collections: "She has probably forgotten more than we [archivists] will ever know." Simpler times, not so long ago, pre-Internet. He had no idea then how prescient he was. The information age may be wonderful, but aging itself resembles the goal of simplifying (some call it downsizing) physical space and possessions. I'm working on the management part. Useful or amusing suggestions are entirely welcome.
14 June 2007
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Hyland from MS to TX
Looking for information about my greatgrandfather, William A. Hyland (b-Oct 1863 MS, d-25Aug 1917 TX).
Married Hattie Rosina Paine (b-1867 MS, d-1932 TX).
Had several children, one was my grandmother, Sadie Bridgette Hyland (b-1895 MS, d-1945 TX).
William had a brother, Nat. Both boys were born in MS and were placed in an orphanage in Natchez MS. Nat was 12 and William was 8 or 9.
Their parents were born in Ireland and immigrated to the U.S.
Anyone with information, please contact me. Thank you.
Looking for MORRIS of Georgia
Looking for information on William Morris, born 1806 in Georgia, died 1899 in Georgia. Married Joyce (Joice). Children: Sireney b-1830, Sanford (my GGgrandfather) b-1834 d-1910, Martha E. b-1834, Miles A. b-1838, and Mary E. b-1842
Sanford married and had several children, the last of whom is my Ggrandmother, Rennie Jane Morris. She married Oliver Wendell Drake in 1899. My grandmother, Dorothy, was born Dec. 24, 1911.
I need information on the parents of William Morris and Sanford's wife (mother of Rennie Jane).
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Something different.
For those of you that know me well, or have been following this blog for a while, you know that I do not like bananas. Things have not changed...I still do not like bananas. I can though appreciate that other people like bananas. I saw this recipe over Thanksgiving when we were staying at my in-laws. My mother-in-law has so many cookbooks and I love that about her. Every time I visit I pile them up and slowly make my way through them. This recipe was one that I found while flipping through her cookbooks. For some reason this recipe really jumped out at me. I can't tell you why since I had no desire to eat the bark, but I thought it would be a fun recipe to add to my holiday baking list. Let me be the first to tell you that people really loved this bark. Based on the feedback from the people that tried this bark, it has a great balance of sweet and tart and the banana chips and toasted pecans added a nice crunch. It literally took me less than 10 minutes to make.
Banana Split Bark
recipe adapted from Pillsbury
Line large cookie sheet with waxed paper. In the microwave, melt chocolate chips at full power stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted.
In medium bowl mix banana chips, toasted pecans and cherries; reserve 1/2 cup. Add remaining fruit mixture to melted chocolate chips; toss to coat. Cool 5 minutes at room temperature. Gently fold in white chocolate chips. Spread mixture evenly into 12x9-inch rectangle on waxed paper-lined cookie sheet; sprinkle with reserved fruit mixture. Cool until set, about 30 minutes.
Break into 1 1/2x1 1/2-inch pieces. Store in airtight container.


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State Rep. Jack Franks has tried without success to pass laws limiting governments' ability to raise their property tax levies when property values fall.
Now he's trying to do something that hasn't been successfully done since 1978 – ask voters for their opinion with a statewide advisory referendum.
House Bill 4273 seeks to put a nonbinding advisory question on the Nov. 4 ballot, asking voters whether they would support a state law forbidding governments from raising their levies if their overall assessed value drops from the previous year, except if approved by voter referendum. The language mirrors what Franks has attempted to do legislatively in recent years.
"I think we need to do this, because I'm not sure the local taxing bodies are hearing the complaints of their constituents." Franks said. "The way it's structured now, they can raise taxes with impunity, regardless of property values."
Most McHenry County governments that levy property taxes have not hit their maximum tax rates under the law, which means they can collect more money every year by raising them to compensate for the decline in property values caused by the bursting of the housing bubble that caused the Great Recession. Outcry from homeowners whose property tax bills have increased while their home values plummeted prompted Franks to file the bill.
In a twist of irony, it is the tax cap that lawmakers passed 25 years ago to keep collar-county residents from being taxed out of their homes that has caused the problem.
The cap, created by the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, limits the annual increase that taxing bodies can receive to either the rate of inflation or 5 percent, whichever is less. McHenry and the other collar counties were capped by state statute in 1991, and lawmakers later allowed other counties to enact them by voter referendum.
But when home values decrease – a scenario lawmakers never considered – the tax cap works for government and against the taxpayer by guaranteeing that taxing bodies can collect the inflationary increase, which will be 1.7 percent on the property tax bills paid this year. While some governments, such as the McHenry County Board, have spurned the annual increase in recent years, most others have raised their rates in order to capture it.
Franks has made several unsuccessful attempts since 2011 to pass laws that would forbid governments under the tax cap from increasing their levies and collecting more money while property values decline. Opposition has been bipartisan, stoked further by Springfield lobbying groups representing county, municipal, township and other units of government.
Northwest Herald stories in recent years have revealed that lobbying groups for our local governments – which pay their dues with tax dollars – have fought the Franks bills and other tax relief measures, and have fought to further restrict right-to-know laws such as the Freedom of Information and Open Meetings acts.
Although housing values are starting to recover – the number of McHenry County property owners who appealed their 2013 assessments fell for the first time in almost a decade after consecutive record-breaking years – Franks said state and local governments have an obligation to reform tax law so that taxpayers never again pay more while their values drop.
"Maybe [the advisory referendum] would give some courage to those lawmakers who didn't vote for it in the General Assembly," Franks said.
The only statewide advisory referendum that has gone to voters since the ratification of the 1970 Illinois Constitution also was a tax-control measure. Commonly called the "Thompson Proposition" after former Republican Gov. James Thompson, the 1978 referendum asked voters whether state law and the Constitution should cap taxes and spending by state and local governments. Voters said "yes" by a resounding 83 percent, but state lawmakers did not advance any legislation as a result.
As of 2012, Illinois had the second-highest property taxes of the 50 states, second only to New Jersey, according to a November 2013 report by the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based economic and social policy research agency.
The General Assembly returns to regular session Wednesday to hear Gov. Pat Quinn deliver the State of the State Address.
What it means
House Bill 4273, filed by state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, would put a statewide advisory referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot asking whether local governments' property tax levies should be capped in years when their overall assessed value declines.
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You can read the text of the bill at www.ilga.gov.


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Matt Hasselbeck's photo evidence gets fine rescinded
When his football career is over, Matt Hasselbeck might want to pursue a law degree.
The Titans quarterback knows how to win a case.
Remember when the NFL fined Hasselbeck for a horse-collar tackle in the Titans' 51-20 loss to the Bears at LP Field on Nov. 4?
In his locker the week after the game, Hasselbeck had a photo showing he tackled Bears cornerback Kelvin Hayden legally. At the time, he called it "Exhibit A."
The photo showed Hasselbeck's hands clutching Hayden's uniform, not inside the neck of his shoulder pads. Hayden was returning a fumble.
The quarterback appealed the fine, providing the photo as evidence he was innocent. The league rescinded the $15,750 fine, he said recently.
"It's funny to other people, not funny to me," Hasselbeck said after he was fined. "We have rules in place and obviously I was trying to play within the rules. I wasn't trying to hurt anybody or anything like that. There was nothing violent about the hit."
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Look out, that's all I can say! I have recently downloaded John Mayer's new album from itunes! I have found that listening to John whilst I am designing and creating is almost essential for me now. I am so excited to have some new music in the background (although I love all his stuff), and it will no doubt assist with some new product development! I am not sure what it is about the music that assists me, but I love it. I can only describe it as 'syncing' in very well with my creative mind.... as is a little bowl of chocolate and perhaps a hot cup of tea (it was red wine, but alcohol been off the table for the last year or so).
I have been working for a while on 'people' graphics. People are hard to get right! I think I am getting there, and in the process came up with some characters from Red Riding Hood. I created a file of character webs, which you may like to look at on TpT or my website.
And these FREE writing pages. I was motivated by one of my earliest and most popular posts - Big Bad Wolf writing pages. The file contains worksheets in NSW Foundation Script as well as a standard font, for my Australian friends :)
This Red Riding Hood set has the same range of worksheets (as the Big Bad Wolf Set) to help cater for a range of learning abilities in your classroom. Check it out at TpT and download it for free.
And while I am talking about Fairytales and FREE stuff you HAVE To check out the FREE graphics posted by Lita Lita at TpT They are called 'Once Upon A Time Clipart' and they are adorable. I can't wait to use them.
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shorts: H&M
jacket: primark
necklace: zara taylor
shoes: (L-R) new look, primark, new look, ebay, new look
The whole combo here comes as standard issue for any fashion blogger! Dont you just think this is the typical blogging uniform? Denim shorts? Check! Striped Breton? Check! Leather Jacket? Check! Big chunky boots? Check! Oh yes my friends I am most definitely a fashion blogger! Im sure you have all seen variations on the striped top/denim shorts/big boots/ leather jacker or blazer look over and over again! But hey no one can deny the serious chic points! I ended up buying the stripey top I had my eye on yesterday, I tried my hardest to avoid it, but I had to have one, its a good basic, can be worn in 1000 different ways, Plus I don't have anything like this so its obviously ok to buy it right?! Help me justify it guys!
Sorry for my awkward posing, and changing lighting! I like the first picture, but could do without the other two. We are currently having the house redecorated, and they are doing my Mums room at the moment, so all the junk from her room is in our spare room. Which is where I take my photos! There is quite alot of light in my room as it faces towards the afternoon sun, so the lighting was blinding me and made the pictures so over exposed! I did edit them a tad in photoshop in the end and they do look ok! For some reason there really nice quality, I wish I had this quality, in my normal setting!
Also there is a selection of shoes for all those who ask why I never post pictures of my shoes. I don't really care much for shoes, I wear any of those 5 pairs daily! For those who have been reading my blog for a while, Those leopard moccasins are THE leopard moccasins that I always talk about, Ya know the ones that are threadbare but I love them so much I cant part with them! I wish I could find them again, one of those rare Primark gems, that I really wish I bought 100 pairs of!


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Casting Crowns to play after Rockies' game
Are you having trouble connecting with you kids, especially now with all the peer pressure they are confronting as a new school year starts? Want an easy way to get in their good graces while putting them in good graces? Grab some tickets to Sunday's Rockies game against the Dodgers.
Along with hosting Los Angeles, the Rockies are once again putting on Faith Day with Grammy Award-winning band Casting Crowns, which will entertain the crowd after the game. Faith Day also might bring the Rox some good karma as they try to break a 17-game losing streak on Sundays – a modern day record.
While Casting Crowns has garnered recognition for its music, the band has not lost sight of its original purpose – youth ministry.
"All of our songs come from our ministry in a local church south of Atlanta," said Mark Hall, the frontman for the band "All the songs start out because of our Bible study or what is happening with our community."
The band's newest CD, "Come to the Well," which will be released Oct. 18, is a good example of that philosophy.


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Most new car model names suck. There— we said it. We once lived in a world of cars named for exotic locales and badass living creatures. These days we're lost in a sea of letters, numbers and words that require a dictionary or an marketing degree to make sense of to identify new cars.
This weekend we want to take a look at some of the awesome cars and trucks named for a member of the animal kingdom. We want to know about your favorite vehicle to ever roll off the assembly line named for a living creature. What is the coolest car or truck with an animal model name?
Our pick for the coolest vehicle with an animal name is the first generation Hudson Hornet. Beside the fact we'd argue it's got one of the best names ever attached to any vehicle, Hornets were oddballs ahead of their time. Introduced in 1951 by Hudson and produced in it's true form through 1954, the Hornet featured a "step down" design that merged body and frame.
Hornets were built with a flathead straight six engine that could be modified with the "Twin H power" package for additional power. The combination of the Hornet's handling characteristics and the engine's untapped power potential made it a favorite among early racers and our pick for the coolest car with an animal model name.
What is the coolest car or truck with an animal model name?
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'American Idol' Charlotte auditions: The recap
So let me get this straight: The big blow-up between Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey was an argument about country music?
Oh, this American Idol season could get weird.
And if it does, the contestants from Charlotte will provide some of the color. Among the 37 contestants sent from the Queen City to Hollywood: A female frog gigger, a black alt-rock singer with a jones for Johnny Cash, a formerly homeless street singer and a girl named Summer whom the judges probably won't even remember seeing because they were too busy bickering amongst themselves.
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Summer made the mistake of telling the judges that she "did the country thing," a choice of words that told Keith Urban she didn't take his style of music all that seriously. Summer auditioned with Lean on Me, and sang it well enough to get through to Hollywood, but not before getting a lecture from Carey for being dismissive of a genre of music that suited her voice so well.
As Carey spoke, with Urban and Randy Jackson occasionally chiming in, Minaj first looked bored, then fed up.
When it finally was her turn to speak, Minaj started with, "For a minute, I thought it was a country music debate." As she tried to defend Summer's comments, all the simmering tension came to a boil, with a four-way argument that ended with Minaj walking out.
In a season where few early front-runners have emerged, a couple more dust-ups like that could send ratings spiraling downward. And even the contestants weighed in, with one telling the judges the next day: "Please don't fight. It makes us sad."
Fortunately, Charlotte also produced a few singers worth rooting for, notably returning contestant Candice Glover, who was cut during last season's Las Vegas round. Glover had noticeably improved, prompting Jackson to tell her that she was the best audition he had heard to that point in the season. And she was almost certainly on his mind later, when he said the Charlotte stop had produced "some top 10s, some top fives, maybe a winner."


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Scotland Yard is reviewing new info surrounding the circumstances around Princess Diana's death.
The information reportedly contains allegations that the Princess of Wales, her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed and their driver Henri Paul were all killed by a member of the British military, according to Sky News.
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The police purportedly obtained those details from the former parents-in-law of a former soldier, according to the site.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that "the assessment of the new information isn't a re-investigation and won't fall under the Operation Paget--the inquiry into conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths."
A jury concluded back in 2008 that the deaths of Princess Diana and Al Fayed were an "unlawful killing, grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes."
NEWS: Check out the connection between Princess Diana and Prince George's name!
The police are assessing the relevance and credibility of the information, and it is possible that a new investigation may open as a result of it, according to the site.
Princess Diana, Al Fayed and Paul passed away after their Mercedes Benz crashed in a Paris tunnel in August 1997.
Buckingham Palace won't be releasing a statement about the new information.


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Based on a Heinrich Mann novel by name Professor Unrath (film changed the title to Der Blaue Engel) The Blue Angel's fame now rests as the springboard for Marlene Dietrich. Originally it was intended as a showcase for the talented Emil Jannings as his talkie debut. He had returned to Germany from Hollywood in 1929, after winning the first Best Actor Oscar for "The Way of All Flesh" and "The Last Command," and he brought over Josef von Sternberg, his "Last Command" director. This veteran actor of the silent era (The Last Laugh, Faust ) in his portrayal of Professor Immanuel Rath has left a memorable performance. This movie deserves it place among 100 Best films for all the right reasons.
It is 1925. In a momentous period of time in the social history of Germany everything that we associate with the failings of the Weimar republic, von Sternberg has with his masterly visual story-telling, set before us a society turned upside down. It is nghtlife that is more alluring than the plain as day honesty of the kleineburger who must feed his family. Economy is in shambles. In this state of things Lola Lola, a cabaret singer with her dubious morals is in her element as Prof. Rath, the pedantic scholar with his puritanical upbringing is at a disadvantage. A pillar of the society in a small German port town his routine one may precisely tell by the town-clock. He teaches English in the local gymnasium (boarding school) and It is on such a disciplined man the parents have laid their charge knowing he shall see to their future. But the defeat of a war, and the conspiracy of forces economic, political and all that come in the wake of a war, is beyond any one's control. Licenciousness of despair is more powerful than the self-righteousness of any man however high his position may be, a sad truth we see time and time again. The Blue Angel as a film works on the premise.
Emil Jannings plays the tyrannical Professor Immanuel Rath — or "Unrath" ("Garbage"), as his students call him. He lives alone, with a caged bird by his side and a maid who grudgingly works for him. Boys shall always be boys and there cannot be anything common with their natural high spirits, and the authoritarian figure. His classes are always boring and they have their own ways to amuse themselves. When confiscating a postcard passed around by his students of a cabaret singer named "Lola Lola," he discovers that the boys have been frequenting the nightclub called "The Blue Angel" to see this dancer perform.
In those times when despair rode the highway pushing the solid burghers to the wall, Professor Rath has a righteous mission: he must save his wards from the corruption with 'million dollar' legs and just the same casts seductive spell. He visits her in her lair. And It must have been the longest walk ever taken by a self-respecting professor to lose his way back. The professor falls under the novelty of a woman as strange as Lola Lola. Her legs are unlike anything he had ever seen or imagined. With her low throaty voice, languorous eyes and supple body she teases him into submission: and in her smile she holds promise of every kind of lascivious knowledge. He was no match for her. Her easy morals would soon show his own, in a poor light. It doesn't take long for the pedagogue to lose everything that had hitherto made his world secure, -his respectability, his job. The film's poignant,- and very subtly played, bitter emotional climax comes in the famous scene where Rath puts on a clown makeup before a stage mirror to take his minor, humiliating part in Lola's show. Any lesser actor would have overplayed it but Jannings gives it naturalness, and all the pathos is left for the viewer to feel and the film is deservedly a tribute to him. No one can save Professor Rath now. He shall never find his way back again as Germany would never return to her old ways in a manner of speaking.
When Lola informs Rath that she is leaving him for another man in the troupe, he flees from the night club and seeks refuge in his old classroom at the academy. Rejected, humiliated, and destitute, he ends his life in the very spot where his path to ruin began, at his old desk.
The film was banned in Nazi Germany in 1933, as were all the works of Heinrich Mann and Carl Zuckmayer. Yet it is well-known that Hitler viewed the film every night in his private cinema, and was mortified when Dietrich crossed the Rhine in American Army uniform a few days before his suicide.
Lola Lola's nightclub act has been parodied on film by Danny Kaye (in drag) as Fraulein Lilli in On the Double, Madeline Kahn as Lili von Schtupp in Blazing Saddles and Helmut Berger in Luchino Visconti's The Damned.
A stage adaptation by Romanian playwright Razvan Mazilu premiered in 2001 at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, starring Florin Zamfirescu as the professor and Maia Morgenstern as Lola Lola.
Memorable Quotes:
Kiepert: You must drink. I'm not paying for your art.
Lola Lola: They call me Lola.
[to stuffy Professor Immanuel Rath, who is dressed in a clown suit]
Lola Lola: Your boys should see you now.
Lola Lola: Falling in love again/ Never wanted to/ What am I to do?/ I can't help it.
* Marlene Dietrich's screen test for this film survives. In it, she upbraids an unidentified piano player for his bad playing and sings two songs, the first of which is "You're the Cream In My Coffee."
* This was Emil Jannings' final English-language film (it was released in both German and English versions – see Alternate Versions).
* Marlene Dietrich (Lola Lola) was, contrary to common belief, not the "star" of the film. She was not even a known actress. She was one of several students at an acting academy who were auditioned by director Josef von Sternberg for the role. Each of the girls was told to bring with them "a naughty song" which they would perform. Dietrich was so nervous and so sure that she would not get the role that she showed up without a song.
* Many actresses from the stage and screen were considered for the role of Lola Lola. Early contenders were Gloria Swanson, Phyllis Haver, Louise Brooks, Brigitte Helm, Lya De Putti, Leni Riefenstahl, Lotte Lenya, and many young German starlets.(imdb)
Similar Movies
Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
Pandora's Box (1929, G.W. Pabst)
Variété (1925, Ewald André Dupont)
Belle of the Nineties (1934, Leo McCarey)
Lola (1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, G.W. Pabst)
Grihalakshmi (1938, H.M. Reddy)
Movies with the Same Personnel
Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
The Last Command (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
The Scarlet Empress (1934, Josef von Sternberg)
Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935, Josef von Sternberg)
Seven Sinners (1940, Tay Garnett)
Other Related Movies
is related to: Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)
Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
The Scarlet Empress (1934, Josef von Sternberg)
Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935, Josef von Sternberg)
A Fool There Was (1915, Frank Powell)
Frederick Hollander's songs include "Falling in Love Again," which became Dietrich's signature tune.
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written by Heinrich Mann
(also novel)
Carl Zuckmayer
Karl Vollmöller
Robert Liebmann
Josef von Sternberg
Starring Emil Jannings
Marlene Dietrich
Kurt Gerron
Music by Friedrich Hollaender
Cinematography Günther Rittau
Editing by Walter Klee
Sam Winston
Distributed by UFA
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 1 April 1930 (Germany)
Running time 99 minutes
Country Germany
Language German/English
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Danks might not be back with Charlotte for the rest of the 2014 campaign, but he has put together a memorable body of work over parts of five seasons in the International League. The 28-year-old holds the Knights franchise record for hits with 446 and is also the all-time Knights franchise leader in games played (458), runs scored (250), triples (12), walks (211) and is tied with Joe Borchard for the top spot in at-bats (1,664). He ranks second in doubles (95) and third in RBIs with 221.
The only Knights players who have put together 1,600-plus at-bats, 400-plus games and 400-plus hits are Danks and Borchard. These are not exactly the numbers that a young player dreams about when starting out, preferring to have that success at the big league level. But Danks certainly doesn't run from his historic Charlotte stint.
"My wife even said to me the other day, 'I know you want to be in the big leagues but I hope you are proud of yourself. It really is a cool honor to be a record holder on any team,'" Danks said. "I am proud. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed my time, but I'm glad to be back."
In his first stint this year with the White Sox, Danks finished 4-for-41 with 20 strikeouts. He joked Saturday that it was the first time he got sent down and it actually made sense. But Danks figured some things out offensively in Charlotte, where he hit .276 with 16 homers and 56 RBIs, contributing to his career marks.
"Those are the records you don't really want. You've been playing in the Minor Leagues too long," Danks said. "But while you are down there, you might as well set some milestones."


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We've been told by several people that this large building along Highway 68/80 east of Cadiz, KY, was built by German prisoners of war during World War II. The building's rounded corners are cited as evidence that the construction crew was German.
I assumed this to be true because I knew the government had programs that provided POW laborers to American farmers and other industries. With so many men gone to the war, America was desperate for laborers. Without support behind the lines, the war effort would fail.
I thought it likely that the prisoners came from Camp Campbell, just 20 miles southeast of the Broadbent Farm (or possibly from Camp Breckenridge, near Morganfield, KY.)
As it turns out, the story we heard and my speculations were partially correct, but several details were wrong. After I originally wrote this post, a Prairie Bluestem reader researched the story of the building with someone who remembered its construction. John wrote:
My dad says he remembers going down with the Broadbents to "Camp Campbell" and picking up those German soldiers. His dad also used German POW's on his farm. He did not remember [Mr.] Smith Jr. [Broadbent] using Germans to build the "seed house" as they called it. Mainly they worked in the fields. Most of the POW's were farmers back home and were glad to work instead of being in the stockades. They weren't allowed to pay them much; they mostly paid them in cigarettes and fed them really well. The Germans may have had something to do with the construction, but my dad didn't think they did.
John's father checked with some of the Broadbent family, and this week, John wrote again:
I finally got the scoop on the old seed house. It was built by 19 WWII POWS. They weren't German though. They were Austrian. [Mr.] Smith Jr. [Broadbent] went to Camp Campbell and picked up 40 originally, and kept 20 to work on the building. All were working out except for one of them. He happened to be the only German among those 19 Austrians, so I am sure there was a conflict there. As for the architects, they were out of Des Moines, IA. So it was definitely built by POW's, just of the Austrian persuasion rather than German.
The sign over the building's door says "Broadbent's B&B Food Products." Apparently the building was once used in the production of Broadbent Farm's famous, prize-winning hams, sausage, and bacon. Broadbent Hams was sold to new owners in 1999, but I don't think this building was included in the deal.
In our family, this building is associated forever with an unfortunate highway breakdown. A couple years after we moved here, we were coming home from a long trip to Missouri and Kansas. When we turned off I-24 onto Highway 68/80, our little VW Fox lost its ability to change gears. You can't go anywhere when your car is stuck in neutral!
We had to push the Fox off the highway into the parking lot of the old Broadbent building. Then we called our pastor. He is a kind soul; he came in his van, armed with automotive fluids and tools. When the breakdown proved too serious for a roadside remedy, he drove us home. It was a bad ending to a long, hard day of driving and a long week of traveling.
When I showed these photos to Isaac, he immediately identified it as the place where we pushed the Fox off the highway. As an afterthought, he mentioned that it was built by POWs.
UPDATED December 5, 2018
Continental Drone Aerial Photography's video on Facebook about the Broadbent Seed House
Interesting links:
German POWS in North America
German POWs in Alabama
Story of a German artist and sculptor who was a POW at Camp Breckenridge


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Thanks to liberalization in the attitudes of some of the music companies who hold the copyright to Jazz and popular music from the "Golden Age" [circa 1925-1975], the video that appears at the end of this feature is once again available in all countries with the exception of Germany [Heaven knows why this is the case].
The editorial staff at JazzProfiles that it would celebrate the lessening of this stricture with a re-posting of this feature on one of the grand musicians from Jazz's early era who went on to fame and fortune as a leading entertainer in the Las Vegas casino lounges.
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"In 1954, after a few years of scuffling, he and his new vocalist Keely Smith (by this time his wife) joined together with saxophonist Sam Butera to form an act that set
on fire. Prima did for Vegas what he had done almost 20 years earlier for 52nd Street [at the Famous Door] — opened the door to a whole new era of entertainment. Every hotel in Vegas began to book big name acts for their casino lounges in the wake of Prima and Smith's success." Las Vegas
- Lloyd Rausch
"Though Louis Prima recorded widely and well throughout the '30s, achieving great popularity and visibility, his name is often conspicuous by its absence from standard jazz histories. Dealing with him seriously means confronting one aspect of
jazz which chroniclers, almost as a point of honor, seem to find distasteful. New Orleans
That, of course, is the matter of showmanship. The flamboyance of Prima's latter career, in which his identity as a trumpeter became almost totally subordinate to his role as a high-energy showman, seems to offend those who would represent jazz as an art music of solemnity and unstinting high purpose. The Las Vegas image, the raucous sound of Sam Butera and the Witnesses, the risque badinage with singer Keely Smith—such make it all too easy to mistake this showbiz aspect of Prima for the creative substance, ignoring his past achievements and core musicianship.
Far from being exclusive to such as Prima, the idea of hot music as an arm of highly commercialized show business runs throughout the early years. It's present in the singing, dancing, and impromptu comedy skits of the dance bands, including those that prided themselves on their dedication to jazz. Its absence is a root cause of the failure of the great Jean Goldkette orchestra, an ensemble which either stubbornly resisted advice to "put on a show" or acquiesced in a manner landing somewhere between perfunctory and downright hostile.
musicians, especially, showmanship was—and remains—a fact of life. Was it not Louis Armstrong, above all, who understood the relationship between music and entertainment, and never wavered in his application of it, even in the face of critical hostility? "You'll always get critics of showmanship," he told British critic Max Jones. 'Critics in New Orleans say I was a clown, but a clown—that's hard. If you can make people chuckle a little; it's happiness to me to see people happy, and most of the people who criticize don't know one note from another.' England
Prima, in common with his two hometown friends Wingy Manone and Sharkey Bonano, accepted—as had Nick LaRocca before them—that they were, above all, entertainers; they might now and then get together for their own enjoyment, and even (as in the case of the 1928 Monk Hazel titles) make music to suit themselves. But where the public was concerned, the paying customers always came first. By his own lights, and by the laws of the box office, Prima was doing what he properly should be doing, and with resounding success. It is only regrettable that the nature of his fame in later years has drawn attention away from his skills as one of the most accomplished, often thrilling, of
trumpet men." New Orleans
- Richard Sudhalter, Lost Chords:White Musicians and Their Contributions to Jazz, 1915-1945 [p. 80, emphasis mine]
A-zoom, a-zoom, a-zoom, a-zooma or some such onomatopoeia.
Shuffle beats; rim shots; plenty of triplets and cymbal crashes.
Boogie woogie piano rumblings; bar-walking tenor saxophone licks; trumpet, trombone and sax unison, "shout choruses" to close out the tunes.
False song endings; surprise endings; stop-and-start endings.
Hand-clapping, finger-poppin' and foot-stompin;" sometimes even sing-a-longs if the melody was a familiar one [most were].
Laughter, smiles-all around and much joy and happiness in listening to the music all served up in an atmosphere of watered-down cocktails, stale smoke with not a clock in sight - anywhere.
A good time was had by all despite the fact that the "3 Shows Nightly" generally took place at and , respectively.
Pack away the cymbals, put a cover over the drums and join the other members of the band for a breakfast of steak and eggs before going "home" to sleep all day, which was just as well given the torrid, daytime heat of the desert sun.
This is a brief description of what it was like to play in one of the Show Bands that were everywhere apparent on the Las Vegas strip before the town gave itself over to the bigness and big business wrought by corporate America and "live" music virtually disappeared as one casualty of profitability.
The Sands, the Flamingo, the Tropicana, the Sahara, the Desert Inn, Harrah's, The Barbary Coast and a host of other casinos featured show bands in one or more of their lounges as free entertainment for those punters who wanted a break in the action. Some came by with a date or to have one-more-for-the-road.
The entertainment in these lounges was generally free and it was often of the highest quality.
The King of the Show Band leaders was Louis Prima who re-made his career in music at The Casbar Lounge of the
Sahara beginning in 1954. Along with vocalist Keely Smith and tenor saxophonist Sam Butera and The Witnesses, Louis Prima's act was the act that all of the other acts caught when they performed in Las Vegas.
On any given evening [morning?], one could find Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, and many of the major comedians who played Las Vegas taking in one of Louis, Kelly and Sam's sets.
For the next ten years or so, Louis' lounge act was the talk of
and was responsible for spawning a generation of show bands that employed a similar style in supper clubs, night clubs and restaurants all over the country. Las Vegas
Twenty-six tracks from the heyday of Louis' time in the
lounges have been issued as a Louis Prima Collectors Series Capitol Records CD [CDP 794072 2] and they are a treat. Las Vegas
Scott Shea's insert notes offer a nice recap of the details of Louis' career as well as a broad overview of the music on the CD.
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"To think that these notes could possibly cover the musical career (let alone life) of Louis Prima would be to believe the impossible. There could never be enough space, enough pages, to do either of those topics full justice with anything less than a fairly large sized book. When that book gets written it will be a terrific read, for Louis Prima was truly one or a kind: trumpeter. singer, composer, humorist; band leader, husband (several times), father (ditto), sportsman, son of Italy, and entertainer par excellence, besides many other things, which separately could never describe him, but together come close.
His musical career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. His time at Capitol Records came at the height of his glory in the mid 1950s to early 1960s, when he, along with singer and then-wife Keely Smith and Sam Butera and the Witnesses, was the hottest lounge entertainer in
. That heady plateau came in a later incarnation of Prima's career; the road he traveled to get there was a long one. Las Vegas
Louis Leo Prima was born on
December 7, 1910 on St. Peter Street, at the edge of ' notorious Storyville district. His parents, Anthony and Angelina, were second-generation Sicilians who encouraged Louis and his older brother Leon to learn music. Louis and Leon started with violin and piano respectively, but soon New Orleans switched to trumpet, the better to emulate the new sound being formed by the local musicians (among them Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong), later to be known as Dixieland Jazz. Leon
An early stint with the house band of a Jefferson Parish gambling club ended when the band leader, piqued with Prima's burgeoning trumpet style, fired him. Louis soon had another job playing in the pit band at
' Saenger Theater. Band leader Lou Forbes recognized Prima's talent and ambition, and drafted arrangements to feature Prima's playing as well as his singing. Always restless, Prima formed his own jazz combo to play New Orleans clubs and speakeasies, New Orleans
In 1934 (following a stint in Red Nichols' Orchestra), Guy Lombardo caught Louis' performance, and encouraged him to venture to
. He auditioned at a 52nd Street club. Leon and Eddie's, which turned him down. Undaunted, he soon found work at another club on New York City 52nd Street with his newly formed group, The New Orleans Gang.
He scored a huge hit at the opening of
's Famous Door club in 1935. and took his Gang to New York the following year to open the west coast version of the club. While there, he performed with Martha Raye and appeared in several shorts and musicals, among them Rhythm On the Range, with Bing Crosby, and Rose of Washington Square, with Tyrone Power and Alice Faye. Hollywood
During this period Prima had several hits on the
label, including "The Lady In Red" and "In a Little Gypsy Tearoom". His biggest success in the thirties came when Benny Goodman recorded his composition "Sing, Sing, Sing", giving Goodman a hit and turning the song (and Goodman version of it) into a classic. Brunswick
In 1939 Prima followed the trend, broke up his Gang, and formed a big band, which he kept into the late 1940s. By now Prima's repertoire had turned away from jazz, and moved towards pop and dance numbers, with a decidedly Neopolitan tilt: "Angelina (which he wrote for his mother), Felicia No Capicia", and "Bacciagaloop (Makes Love On the Stoop)". Needless to write, Prima had no problem with humor.
Louis kept the band going in World War II, but had some difficulties replacing musicians who enlisted. In this period he scored modest hits with "Robin Hood" "Civilization", and "I'll Walk Alone", and composed the hit "A Sunday Kind of Love" for Jo Stafford and Fran Warren. Major success, however, continued to elude him.
In August, 1948. Prima replaced his singer, Lily Ann Carol, with a 16-year old from
, (Dorothy) Keely Smith. Her smooth phrasing and clear tones could not have contrasted more with Louis' heavy, bellowing delivery. Norfolk, Virginia
They developed a routine in which Louis would attempt to break down Keely's deadpan stage persona with ad libs, jokes and distractions. When they sang together, improbably, they blended.
Louis and Keely remained as a performing duo after Prima ended his big band in 1949. In 1952, Keely became Prima's fourth wife. The couple called attention to the large disparity in their ages for comedic effect on stage. They continued to perform on the club circuit until the fall of 1954, when the gigs started to dry up.
In desperation, Prima phoned Bill Miller, an old friend, who was then running the Sahara Hotel in
. Prima pleaded with Miller for a booking, and Miller gave them a two-week engagement in the hotel's lounge, starting on Las Vegas November 24, 1954.
Before heading for Vegas. Louis and Keely had shared the bill at Perez's Oasis Club in
with tenor saxophonist Sam Butera and his band, The Night Trainers. Butera, a skilled jazz player and arranger, had been packing in crowds in Metairie, Louisiana area clubs, and had had some local hit records. New Orleans
Prima told Butera of his Vegas plans, and promised Sam that if anything happened in Vegas, he would get back in touch. "About three months later I was working at the Monteleone Hotel, and he called me and said. 'You better come out here, ana bring three guys (musicians)'," says Butera. 'He wanted me to join him on Christmas Day, but I told him I'd join him the day after Christmas.'
The group that took the stage with Prima at the
Sahara on December 26, 1954 had not even had a chance to be introduced to him. When it came time in the show to introduce the sidemen, Louis asked Sam who they were. Sam hollered, "The Witnesses!" Thus are legends born.
The combination of Louis Prima with Keely Smith, and Sam Butera and the Witnesses, was a smash hit in
. They became a fixture in the Las Vegas Sahara's Casbar Lounge, performing five shows a night. They would be soaking in sweat when they finally left the stage at dawn.
For its era, the Prima-Smith-Butera show was considered risqué (Time called it "doggedly vulgar"). The banter between Louis and Keely was not without its share of innuendo and off-color references (Sonny and
Cher later borrowed much of it to reestablish their career on television in the 1970s).
Surrounding the jokes and gags, and keeping everything jumping, were Butera and the Witnesses, supplying a wild, relentless, driving beat that punched through the lounge's smoke and chatter and left crowds in awe. There was nothing like it, which was why it ' became known as "The Wildest Show in Vegas".
"Everything sounded spontaneous," says Butera. "but we were well rehearsed, with Louis' laughter and Keely's presence and great singing, the group always looked like we were having fun, and we were, really."
It was at this point that Prima signed with Capitol in 1956. Producer Voyle Gilmore's intent from the start was to capture as much as possible the live feel of Prima's group. The liner notes for Prima's first Capitol album, The Wildest, claim that Prima remarked, "That's us, man! That's us!" upon hearing the tapes (Capitol recorded Prima live on many subsequent occasions, as is evidenced by some of the selections on this disc). Much of the material had been performed by Louis and Keely for years previous, but Butera re-arranged all the selections to make them swing, and they do.
The selections on this disc abound with Prima trademarks: sudden tempo shifts into and out of Prima's patented "shuffle beat"; tarantellas interwoven with Dixieland jazz; medleys of re-worked standards; altered lyrics befitting Prima's dialect, and numerous passages of Louis own inimitable scat talk.
Keely shows she can hold her own with Louis in the jive talk department on "The Lip," and displays her skills as a fine ballad singer (or tries to) on "Embraceable You"/"I Got It Bad".
Sam takes the lead vocal on one of the group's classic numbers. "There'll Be No Next Time": "I heard it on a 45, and brought it to Louis... he listened to it and said we had to change some lyrics and make it longer so we could do it on stage. Louis wrote about 80 percent of the lyrics we used on that."
Louis also re-wrote other lyrics when certain numbers were recorded because he thought the live versions were too suggestive. For example, the recorded version of "The Sheik of Araby" substitutes the words "turban" and "jumpin'" for "pants" and "naked" in the live version. A switch of two words gives the song an entirely different meaning!
This disc also features re-recordings of earlier Prima hits ("Oh Marie", "Buona Sera", "Angelina"/"Zooma Zooma"), songs from movie appearances ("Hey Boy, Hey Girl* "Banana Split For My Baby", "Twist All Night"), and Louis and Keely's two most memorable hits, "That Old Black Magic", and "I've Got You Under My Skin".
Probably the oddest selection on this disc is "Beep! Beep!", from a 1957 single which Louis recorded in recognition of the Sputnik launch earlier in the year. It is the only selection on this disc to contain an overdub, made necessary for the sound effect.
By 1961 Louis and Keely had moved from the
Sahara's lounge to the main showroom at the Desert Inn. Prima also moved from Capitol to Dot Records, for an extremely lucrative recording deal. Later that year problems in the marriage caused Keely to file for divorce, thus also ending her professional affiliation with Prima. Louis later replaced her with his fifth wife and singing partner, Gia Maione.
Prima enjoyed his last hit at Dot with a version of "Wonderland By Night", then moved back to Capitol in 1962 for one further album, The Wildest Comes Home. Louis and Sam's no-holds-barred version of "St. Louis Blues", taken from that album, rounds out this collection.
After his final departure from Capitol Prima continued performing in Vegas and elsewhere (but always on the mainland; a strong fear of flying precluded overseas performances), and recording. In 1967 he made an acclaimed cameo in Walt Disney's animated film, The Jungle Book, providing the voice of King Louie the Orangutan, and a duet with Phil Harris on "I Wanna Walk Like You".
In the early 1970s Prima, along with Butera, moved the band to residency at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in
' French Quarter. In November 1975, Prima underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor. He never regained consciousness after the operation, and remained in a coma until his death on August 24. 1978 at New Orleans ' Touro Infirmary. New Orleans
Keely Smith also returned to Capitol to record several albums (perhaps Capitol will release a Keely Smith Collector's Edition CD: she certainly deserves it), and continues performing to date.
Sam Butera regularly performs worldwide and records with his band, The Wildest '''' Though he has drifted more to jazz in recent years, he still performs some Prima favorites in his sets.
Says Sam of Prima: "He was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived - he was an entertainer's entertainer." Anyone who listens to this CD will have to agree.
Liner notes by Scott Shea"


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In its size, variety and quality, the MMFA's international art collection is unique in Quebec and one of the three largest in Canada. Its presentation in the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, inaugurated in 2016, enables the Museum to display the strength and depth of one of Canada's outstanding collections, which covers important milestones of civilization. The works of the Hornstein gift have been incorporated into the existing collection both chronologically and thematically. Thus, 750 works of international art are displayed on four levels of the building, while Ben Weider's Napoleonic collection is also integrated into the layout of the pavilion in a fluid and logical manner.
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With its 1,430 paintings, sculptures, miniature portraits, drawings and prints, the collection boasts masterpieces by Boucher, Bouguereau, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Canaletto, Emmanuel de Witte, El Greco, Fantin-Latour, Gainsborough, Goya, de Largillierre, Mantegna, Poussin, Rembrandt, Gerard ter Borch, Tiepolo, Tissot and Veronese.
These major artists represent the principal styles and periods of the history of art between the Middle Ages and the mid-nineteenthth century. One of the strengths of the collection lies in the 138 Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings, which make the MMFA an important repository of works from the rich artistic context of the Dutch Golden Age. In addition to encompassing the history of art, the collection reflects the great generosity of eminent patrons of the Museum, particularly of Michal and Renata Hornstein.
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
The Middle Ages from the Romanesque to the Gothic
The Church was the principal patron of art, the main function of which was to give thanks to God. This section comprises various religious and decorative objects (chalices, candlesticks, patens, caskets, paintings, plaques, fragments of architecture and stained glass), mostly anonymous and executed from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries in France, Spain, England, Italy and Russia.
From the Gothic to the Renaissance
Italian Gothic art, represented in this section by two paintings on panel on the subject of the Virgin and Child executed by Giovanni del Biondo and Andrea di Bartolo, reflect a respect for and deep understanding of classical sculpture. This period, which coincided with the rise of universities, international trade and consequently of the middle class, also saw the emergence of secular art and of the earliest modern portraits. The Portrait of a Man (about 1480) by Hans Memling, displayed in this section, is a fine example.
Renaissance Art
The origins of the style commonly called Renaissance go back to the early-fifteenth century in Florence, Italy. It is characterized by the strong influence of classical antiquity enriched by naturalism and the individualistic feeling inherited from the late-Gothic period. In this section visitors can admire masterpieces such as The Virgin and Child with Saint Michael and Saint Blaise (about 1475) by Neri di Bicci; Portrait of a Man of the House of Leiva (about 1580-1585) by El Greco; Christ Crowned with Thorns (about 1584-1585) by Veronese; and Portrait of a Member of the Foscari Family (about 1555-1560) by Tintoretto.
Bronzes and Medallions of the Renaissance
The popularity enjoyed by small bronzes and medallions among Italian collectors during the Renaissance testifies to artists renewed interest in the antique world. Italian artists Galeazzo Mondella, called Moderno; The Adoration of the Magi, 1490) and Valerio Belli; Jesus among the Doctors of the Law (about 1532) as well as Pietro Tacca; Satyr (undated) and Alessandro Vittoria; Mercury (undated) are excellent examples.
Later on in the sixteenth century, artists still looked back to works of the past − from antiquity to the recent creations of Michelangelo and Raphael – but, unlike their predecessors of the Renaissance, they paid less attention to the natural world or to the expression of emotions. This section comprises five painted works, including two oils on panel by the Belgian artist Hendrick de Clerck depicting the same subject, Moses Striking the Rock (about 1610).
The Golden Age - The Baroque and Classicism
The style of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610), the Italian artist whose work revolutionized painting in terms of both form and iconography during the first half of the seventeenth century, influenced the whole of Europe. Dutch caravaggists who moved to Rome, like Gerrit van Honthorst; The Duet (1623-1624), Godfried Schalcken; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (about 1700) and Matthias Stom; Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (about 1630-1633), Valentin de Boulogne, called Valentin in France, and the Italians Mattia Pretti; Tobit Blessing Tobias (about 1660) and Bernardo Strozzi; Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria (about 1635) are eloquent examples of his influence.
Baroque Art
The Baroque movement embraced Classicism as well as the theatrical realism of Caravaggio and his emulators, along with the naturalism of Flemish painters like Pieter Boel with the oil on canvas Still Life with Game and Hounds (about 1600) and the Dutch artists represented here with oils on canvas, especially Jan Both; Southern Landscape with Travellers (about 1645-1650), Jan Baptist Weenix; River Landscape with a Ferry (about 1650), Jacob von Ruisdael; The Bleaching Grounds at Haarlem (about 1670) and Abraham Bloemaert; Harvest Scene (about 1625-1630).
The Dutch Golden Age
The "Golden Age" saw a proliferation of pictorial genres and specialization by artists. Still lifes such as Young Girl with Still Life (about 1620) by Floris van Schooten and Still Life with Candlestick (between 1660 and 1685) by Pieter van Roestraten; scenes of everyday life by Emanuel de Witte; Interior with a Woman Playing a Virginal (about 1660-1667) and Jacob Duck; Interior of an Inn with a Cavalier and a Sleeping Woman (about 1645); portraits by Gerard Ter Borch; Portrait of a Woman (about 1676-1677) and Rembrandt; Portrait of a Young Woman (about 1688) and by his pupil Nicolaes Maes; The Adoration of the Shepherds (1658) are excellent examples of the period.
France and Classicism
Louis XIII came to the throne of France in 1617. Unlike Baroque art, which persisted, Classicism advocated a clear and orderly vision. The classical world was the model for grandeur and the city of Rome the obligatory destination for many French artists. Examples of their work include canvases by Laurent de la Hyre; Landscape with a Swineherd (1648), Jean Lemaire; Roman Senators and Legates (1645-1655), Philippe de Champaigne; The Tribute Money (1663-1665), Claude Lorrain; The Daughters of Helios Searching for Their Brother Phaeton (1658), Sébastien Bourdon; Landscape with Classical Ruins (about 1635), as are Nicolas Poussin's idealized landscapes with lyrical atmospheric effects; such as Landscape with a Man Pursued by a Serpent (1637-1639).
The Enlightenment and the Empire Gallery
The Rococo
In the eighteenth century, the late Baroque style was generally called the Rococo, a term composed of a blend of the Italian barocco and the French rocaille, a kind of decor popular at the time that used shells and pebbles. This style is very apparent in the passionate gestures and tender expressions of François Boucher's Assumption of the Virgin (about 1758-1760), the lyrical colourism and delight in depicting patterns and surfaces in the Portrait of a Woman as Astrea (about 1710-1712) by Nicolas de Largillierre and the lightness of touch tinged with eroticism of Apelles Painting the Portrait of Campaspe (about 1726) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the archaeological excavations in ancient Herculaneum and Pompeii sparked a mania for the antique across Europe. This section illustrates the Neoclassical style with works by French artists such as the Portrait of Madame Mercier (about 1780) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Young Girls Dancing around an Obelisk (1798) by Hubert Robert, Forest Interior (1826) by Jean-Victor Bertin and Portrait of a Man in a Red Cape (1795-1800) by François-Xavier Fabre.
British Portraiture
The portrait was one of the most popular genres of painting during the rococo period and was particularly fashionable in Great Britain in the eighteenth century. In the 1700, almost all of the leading British artists, many of whom are represented in this gallery, were famous for their large-scale portraits. Notable are the paintings of Joshua Reynolds; Portrait of a Young Woman in a Turban (about 1760-1765), John Opie; Portrait of John Elliott (about 1785-1790), Henry Raeburn; Portrait of Mr. D. (about 1790), Thomas Gainsborough; Portrait of Mrs. George Drummond (1779-1782) and John Romney; Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Wright (1781).
The Empire Gallery
The Empire Gallery displays about a hundred works linked to Napoleon and his epoch – jewellery, furniture, fine arts and personal items – brought together thanks to the gift of the collection of the Montreal patron of the arts Ben Weider. A travelling writing case (1805) and one of the cocked hats worn by the Emperor – this one from the Russian campaign (1812) – are among the objects in this collection, one of the most important in North America. Many of these items are coveted by museums across the globe.
From Romanticism to the Belle Époque
The Romantic Sentiment
Born in England and Germany in the late-eighteenth century, the mal du siècle or the malady of the century, according to Alfred de Musset, spread across Europe following the costly exploits of Napoleon. The Romantic movement produced picturesque works rich in historical details, such as those by Alexandre Évariste Fragonard, Francis I in Benvenuto's Studio (1820-1830) and Henri Baron, Leys Charity (1850). A lyrical approach to nature is found in the landscapes and seascapes of Georges Michel, Landscape (with Sea) (about 1820-1830) and Eugène Isabey, Brittany Coast Scene (1860). The Romantic quest for the sublime and the irrational is illustrated in the paintings of Théodore Chassériau, Young Woman Weeping at a Stela (1840), Paul Delaroche, Ludmila Komar, Princess of Beauvau-Craon (1849) and the sculptures of Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Leda and the Swan (about 1850) and Pierre-Eugène Émile Hébert, Forever!! Never!! (1860).
Orientalism developed as an art movement following Napoleon's campaign in Egypt in 1798 and above all throughout the nineteenth century the era of European conquest and colonization of North Africa and the Middle East. The first generation of Romantic artists, represented in this section by works by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Eugène Fromentin, dreamed of finding in the Orient an ancient world illuminated by the vivid colours of the exotic, while the second generation, paying closer attention to ethnological accuracy, sometimes fell into the trap of a facile "bazaar Orientalism": see Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Evening on the Terrace (Morocco) (1879) and Alberto Pasini, Entrance to the Bazaar, Cairo (1880-1890).
The "Realists"
The "painters of reality" depicted contemporary subjects from their own viewpoint, neither copying others nor following convention. The works shown here by Gustave Courbet, Aimé-Jules Dalou and Honoré Daumier show the new attention paid by artists to working people, with an underlying political republican intent. Their style was characterized by the extensive use of black, very apparent in the paintings of French artists like François Bonvin, Still Life (about 1870), Gustave Courbet, The Brook of the Black Well (about 1855), Henri Fantin-Latour, Peonies (1876) and Théodule Ribot, The Morning Wash (The Children's Home) (about 1863).
The Barbizon School
On the outskirts of the forest of Fontainebleau, not far from Paris, a group of artists painted out of doors, a practice made possible by new inventions, in particular tubes of paint. Inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch landscapists, they founded a "modern school of landscape" that opened the way for Impressionism. They portrayed a simple, often nostalgic view of rural life, far from the vices of the new urban and industrial society: Camille Corot, L'île heureuse (about 1865-1868), Charles François Daubigny, Moonrise at Auvers (1877), Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Côte d'Azur Landscape (1865) and Charles-Émile Jacque, Landscape with Sheep (after 1848).
Daumier to Picasso - Impressionism and Modern Art
The strength of the collection lies in a number of works produced in Paris, the cradle of modern art, and several associated with German Expressionism. The artists represented, who include Cézanne, Courbet, Dali, Daumier, Derain, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso, Rodin and Sisley, were among the most influential and original figures of the modern era.


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