Mobiliário - XVII (Furniture - XVII)

baú (eram usados como guarda-roupas) - ca. 1515.
chest (they were used as wardrobe) - ca. 1515.

Charles Cressent (1685-1768).
cômoda - ca. 1730.
commode - ca. 1730.

poltrona - ca. 1755. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nova Iorque.
armchair - ca. 1755. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

poltrona - ca. 1775, França.
armchair - ca. 1775. France.

Albert Cheuret (1884-1966).
Rapina, detalhe - alabastro, bronze prateado - ca. 1925.
Raptor, detail - alabaster, silvered bronze - ca. 1925.

poltrona moderna em estilo barroco - madeira, Toile de Jouy azul e branco.
modern baroque-style armchair - wood, blue-and-white Toile de Jouy fabric.

Efemérides. (On This Day...)

 29 Setembro.

Celebremos a São Miguel Arcanjo!

29th September.
Let us celebrate Saint Michael the Archangel!

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 +Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae caelestis, in virtute Dei, in infernum detrude Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, Amen.+

Papa São Leão XIII.
Pope Saint Leo XIII.

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Milo Manara (1945-).

 

29 Setembro, 1571.

Feliz aniversário, Caravaggio!

29th September, 1571.
Happy birthday, Caravaggio!

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V: Réquiem ætérnam dona ei, Dómine.

R: Et lux perpétua lúceat ei. 

V: Requiéscat in pace. 

R: Amen.

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Antonio Canova (1757–1822) - II.

Cupido Alado - ca. 1795.
Winged Cupid - ca. 1795.

As Tres Graças - 1799 - têmpera. Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno, Itália.
The Three Graces - 1799 - tempera. Gipsoteca Canoviana, Possagno, Italy.

Perseu Triunfante - ca. 1800.
Triumphant Perseus - ca. 1800.

Perseu Triunfante, detalhe - ca. 1800.
Triumphant Perseus, detail - ca. 1800.

Paulina Borghese como "Venus Victrix" - ca. 1806.
Paolina Borghese as "Venus Victrix" - ca. 1806.

As Tres Graças.
The Three Graces.

Arte Funerária - XXVI (Funerary Art - XXVI)

Túmulo de Santo Agostinho - 1372 - in "Rivista Cosmorama Pittorico #36", Milão, 1835.
Tumb of Saint Augostine - 1372 - in "Rivista Cosmorama Pittorico #36", Milan, 1835.

Walter Monich. 
Monumento a Restaino Caldora - 1412. Abbazia di Santo Spirito al Morrone, Sulmona, Itália.
Monument for Restaino Caldora - 1412. Abbazia di Santo Spirito al Morrone, Sulmona, Italy.

Edward Stanton (1681–1734).
Funerary Monument to Sir Robert Atkyns - mármore. St. Kenelm's Church, Sapperton, Inglaterra.
Funerary Monument to Sir Robert Atkyns - marble. St. Kenelm's Church, Sapperton, England.

François-Nicolas Delaistre (1746-1832).
Monumento Funerário ao Marquês de Tourney - ca. 1790 - mármore. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Funerary Monument for the Marquis de Tourney - ca. 1790 - marble. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

Johann Valentin Sonnenschein  (1749-1828).
Monumento a Ludwig von Jenner - 1806.
Monument to Ludwig von Jenner - 1806.

lápide de Clarence Augustus  White.
headstone of Clarence Augustus  White.

Efemérides. (On This Day...)

 26 Setembro, 1948.

Feliz aniversário, Olivia Newton-John!

26th September, 1948.
Happy birthday, Olivia Newton-John!

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V: Réquiem ætérnam dona ei, Dómine.
R: Et lux perpétua lúceat ei.
V: Requiéscat in pace.  
R: Amen.

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 26 de Setembro, 1968.

Feliz aniversário, Jim Caviezel!

26th September, 1968.

Happy birthday, Jim Caviezel! 

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 Rezemos por Jim Caviezel e sua família!

 Let us pray for Jim Caviezel and his family!

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Otto nas 20.000 Léguas Submarinas. (Otto in the Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.)

Anton Otto Fischer (1882-1962).
"20.000 Léguas Submarinas" de Júlio Verne.
Chicago: John C Winston & Co, 1932.
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne.
Chicago: John C Winston & Co, 1932.

 

Efemérides. (On This Day...)

25 Setembro, 1952.

Feliz aniversário, Christopher Reeve!

25th September, 1952.
Happy birthday, Christopher Reeve!

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V: Réquiem ætérnam dona ei, Dómine.
R: Et lux perpétua lúceat ei.
V: Requiéscat in pace.  
R: Amen.

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Flores - XXIV (Flowers - XXIV)

Jan Fyt (1609-1661)
Vaso de Flores.
Vase of Flowers.

Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872), desenho.
Robert Havell, Jr. (1793-1878), gravurista.
Lírio (Lilium longiflorum) in "A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae".
Londres: Robert Havell,1831.
Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872), drawing.
Robert Havell, Jr. (1793-1878), engraver.
Lilly (Lilium longiflorum) in "A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae"
London: Robert Havell,1831.

Otto Diderich Ottesen (1816-1892).
Natureza-Morta com Rosas e Morangos - 1843.
Still Life with Roses and Strawberries - 1843.

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904).
Peônias - 1876 - óleo sobre tela. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canadá.
Peonies - 1876 - oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919).
Flores num Vaso - ca. 1866 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Flowers in a Vase - ca. 1866 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Christian Juel Möllback (1853–1921).
Cacto com Botões Escarles - 1884 - oil on canvas.
Cactus with Scarlet Blossoms - 1884 - oil on canvas.