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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

books0977: Self Portrait (c. 1580). Marietta Robusti (Venetian, Renaissance, 1560-1590). Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The only painting that can be conclusively attributed to Robusti is her Self Portrait that depicts Marietta posed before a harpsichord, holding a musical text that has been identified as a madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, “Madonna per voi ardo”. It has been postulated that the inclusion of this text, whose opening lines are “My Lady, I burn with love for you and you do not believe it” suggests that the painting was created for a male viewer, possibly Marietta’s husband.

books0977:

Self Portrait (c. 1580). Marietta Robusti (Venetian, Renaissance, 1560-1590). Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

The only painting that can be conclusively attributed to Robusti is her Self Portrait that depicts Marietta posed before a harpsichord, holding a musical text that has been identified as a madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, “Madonna per voi ardo”. It has been postulated that the inclusion of this text, whose opening lines are “My Lady, I burn with love for you and you do not believe it” suggests that the painting was created for a male viewer, possibly Marietta’s husband.

vlajean: unfair faces in art history - no.12 léon bonnat / self-portrait, 1855

vlajean:

unfair faces in art history - no.12

léon bonnat / self-portrait, 1855
legrandcirque: Felix Nadar, Self-portrait, ca. 1865.

legrandcirque:

Felix Nadar, Self-portrait, ca. 1865.

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