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"Moonlight, Study," Fanny Churberg, 1878.
Churberg (1845-92) was a Finnish landscape painter.
The daughter of a doctor and fiercely proud of her Finnish heritage, she began artistic training in 1865 after the deaths of both her parents, and moving in with an aunt, along with her brothers. She was an industrious painter, doing 300 canvases in a 15-year career.
While her style was strictly in the Dusseldorf School (an extension of the Romantic movement, with a focus on meticulously detailed landscapes, often with religious or moral allegory), she did differ from them a slight bit with her short brushstrokes and energetic style. She was passionate about the Finnish landscape and sought to translate such events as an approaching thunderstorm, or moonlight on a cloudy night, as accurately as possible.
She stopped painting in 1880; some say it was her own declining health and the death of her brother Torsten from TB. Others say it was harsh reviews of her work. But she remained involved in the artistic world, encouraging other painters, until her death at 46,
She has been rediscovered in the last 20 years and now is valued for her passionate depictions of turbulent nature.
From the Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
#Art #FannyChurberg #DusseldorfSchool #Landscape #WOmenArtists #WomensHistory #Romanticism
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On this day (136 years ago), death of Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 154 years ago, Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Mary Shelley’s Gothic Dundee
26 August, online
SWI members free; non-members £6.13Mary Shelley was sent to Dundee as a teenager, & it was here, so she claimed in the 1831 edition of FRANKENSTEIN, that her eerie imagination was first stirred. What was so “gothic” about Dundee in the 1810s? And how did it inspire her? Prof Daniel Cook investigates.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swi-expert-talk-mary-shelleys-gothic-dundee-tickets-1996447619573
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #Dundee #romanticism #MaryShelley #gothic #horror #19thcentury #Frankenstein
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Listen to Ossian’s version of Robert Burns’ “Corn Rigs”, from their 1981 album SEAL SONG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6f21Bdsbg&list=PLF04F88F9D6E44609
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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It was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
I held awa to Annie…—Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs”
pages from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013)Today, 1 August, is Lammas Day
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-poems-and-songs-9780199682324?cc=gb&lang=en&
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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"Still Life with Golden Bream," Francisco Goya, 1808-12.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the all-time greats. When painting portraits, he could communicate a lot about the sitter while still depicting them more-or-less fairly. But he was also an exceptional caricaturist who ruthlessly dissected human foibles. He could paint historical works but also do works that were sharply critical of the times he was in. And he also produced many bizarre works that seem to be his savage depictions of human fears.
What he was NOT known for was still lifes, and the ones by him can be counted on one's fingers.
Here we have some fish in a heap by the shore. At just a glance, it seems normal, but bear in mind this was painted during the Peninsular War, when Napoleon was invading Spain and fighting was all over. Then those goggling fish eyes take on a sense of pathos. It's a heap of the dead, left on the seashore, sacrificed by a desire for conquest.
That's how good Goya was. He can paint a still life of fish and turn it into a commentary on war.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #FranciscoGoya #Romanticism #StillLife #War #Symbolism #Commentary #Napoleon #PeninsularWar
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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“No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)
3/4
https://www.museabrugge.be/en/collection/work/id/0000_gro0350_i
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #RobertLouisStevenson #19rhcentury
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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“When I Roved, a Young Highlander”, illustrated by Currier & Ives, NY
SCENE: Currier & Ives offices, mid/late-19th century
CURRIER: Remember, Lord Byron was mad, bad, & dangerous to know
IVES: Right – I’ll give him a bugle, a mini-kilt, & a shotgun
CURRIER: 👍5/5
https://www.visitpham.org/objects/263199
#Scottish #literature #poetry #art #illustration #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury #highlands
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“Like Burns, Byron knew how earthy values crossed social strata. But by Byron’s time, polite society was even more thoroughly committed to grinding down public festivities in fairs, sports and open air gatherings. Byron was a shock for polite, well-educated readers. He horrified his public.”
—Prof Alan Riach on Burns, Byron, & overlapping traditions
4/5
https://www.thenational.scot/news/15987226.aristocratic-lord-byron-shares-ploughman-burns/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Byron #LordByron #RobertBurns #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!
In you let the minions of luxury rove,
Restore me the rocks where the snowflake reposes,
Though still they are sacred to freedom and love:
Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,
Round their white summits though elements war;
Though cataracts foam ’stead of smooth-flowing fountains,
I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.—George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Lachin Y Gair”
3/5
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romanticism
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Byron declared that he was “half a Scot by birth, and bred / A whole one”. To what extent should we privilege such a claim? In what ways did Byron engage with a Scottish poetic heritage, if at all?
—Prof Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, 2022
Online via Project MUSE (institutional subscription required)2/5
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/article/860879
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred
A whole one, and my heart flies to my head,——from “Don Juan”, Canto X, by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The great Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron – Lord Byron – was born #OTD, 22 Jan, 1788
A 🎂 🧵
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Byron #LordByron #romantic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Musical Interlude: Here's another long-form video to play while you're doing something else, and it's another Berlioz symphony. This was written at the encouragement of Paganini and is based on a poem by Lord Byron, so it's got crazy Romantic cred.
The four movements depict various scenes in Italy witnessed by Byron's Childe Harold: A scene in the mountains, a march of pilgrims, a serenade by a mountaineer, and finally, an orgy of bandits. (Hey, it's Berlioz AND Byron, what do you expect?)
"Harold en Italie," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NC4E5RXik&t=35s
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #LordByron #NiccoloPaganini #Symphony #Romanticism
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Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein, as she, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori are looking for something to do while trapped indoors on a rainy afternoon.
Hilarious comedy sketch by the always excellent Eleanor Morton (with Christian Brighty).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZugBt-cs-3U
#EleanorMorton #ChristianBrighty #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #Romanticism #PercyShelley #LordByron
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #LeonardCohen #music #song
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Byron’s poem ☝️ borrows from the Scottish song “The Jolly Beggar” – often attributed to King James V (who reputedly liked to disguise himself as “the Gudeman of Ballangeich” to enjoy amorous adventures)
From Cromek’s SELECT SCOTTISH SONGS (1810):
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#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #folksong
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 201 years ago #OTD, 19 April 1824
Byron included this poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
1/4
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Byron #LordByron #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism
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The Poet’s required to speak of Love,
Of Nature, Death and God above,
But I’ll stick to the latter three.
The first had long eluded me
In fragments of my lone desires.
And though its promise still inspires,
I’d rather shake it from my feet
And leave my writings incomplete.#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #love #eros #poetics #individuality #lostlove #innocence #maturity #irony #romanticism
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Really fascinating references to James #Watt and Maria #Edgeworth in #Scott’s preface to The Monastery #ScottishLiterature #Romanticism #c19Studies
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The #Launch of Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long #NineteenthCentury is in just over an hour. #Romanticism #Victorianism #C18Studies #C19Studies #MedicalHumanities #MedHums https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/book-launch-life-death-and-consciousness-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-tickets-481661782357?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reminder_attendees_event_starting_email&utm_term=eventname&ref=eemaileventremind
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Book Launch: Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century #C19Studies #Romanticism #VictorianStudies #Victodon #IrishStudies https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-life-death-and-consciousness-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-tickets-481661782357