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On this day (199 years ago), George Canning (1770-1827) died this day.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this day (199 years ago), George Canning (1770-1827) died this day.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00047 -
"View from the Artist's Window," Martinus Rørbye, c. 1825.
Rørbye (1803-48) was one of the central artists of the Danish Golden Age of painting, in the first half of the 19th century, and this particular image is regarded as one of his best.
Painted when he was in his early 20s, we have a view from his parents' window at a navy yard with ships. It's loaded with symbols...the bird in the cage hanging at the window is him, about to break free and travel; the plants (including a pink geranium) show growth and development, and the blank book is waiting to be filled with sketches.
Rørbye was well-traveled for the era; he visited Norway and Sweden, and journeyed as far as Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. He even painted in the town of Skagen, a full fifty years before it became a popular artists' colony and home of the Skagen school. So the bird in the cage is a transition from his parents' home to exploring the wide world on one of those ships.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
#Art #MartinusRørbye #DanishGoldenAge #Romanticism #FlowerFriday
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"View from the Artist's Window," Martinus Rørbye, c. 1825.
Rørbye (1803-48) was one of the central artists of the Danish Golden Age of painting, in the first half of the 19th century, and this particular image is regarded as one of his best.
Painted when he was in his early 20s, we have a view from his parents' window at a navy yard with ships. It's loaded with symbols...the bird in the cage hanging at the window is him, about to break free and travel; the plants (including a pink geranium) show growth and development, and the blank book is waiting to be filled with sketches.
Rørbye was well-traveled for the era; he visited Norway and Sweden, and journeyed as far as Rome, Athens, and Constantinople. He even painted in the town of Skagen, a full fifty years before it became a popular artists' colony and home of the Skagen school. So the bird in the cage is a transition from his parents' home to exploring the wide world on one of those ships.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
#Art #MartinusRørbye #DanishGoldenAge #Romanticism #FlowerFriday
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Today marks the 85th anniversary of the death of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00842 -
Today marks the 85th anniversary of the death of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00842 -
The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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The Three Robins
9 September, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway. Free, ticketed.A talk on “The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson and R. Louis Stevenson” presented by Prof David Purdie, MD. Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #RobertFergusson #RobertLouisStevenson #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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I've been getting into Russian #Decembrists lately and that made me curious about the notion of military school uprisings. Similar like it happened in Poland in #Romanticism under Russian rule, what Polish bard #JuliuszSłowacki documented in his drama "Kordian". There are some great books about Polish uprisings under Russian rule, like, I think, "The great century of Poland" by Polish literary scholar Alina Witkowska. I want to read more of Polish Romantics.
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I've been getting into Russian #Decembrists lately and that made me curious about the notion of military school uprisings. Similar like it happened in Poland in #Romanticism under Russian rule, what Polish bard #JuliuszSłowacki documented in his drama "Kordian". There are some great books about Polish uprisings under Russian rule, like, I think, "The great century of Poland" by Polish literary scholar Alina Witkowska. I want to read more of Polish Romantics.
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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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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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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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On this day, Sándor Petöfi (1823-1849) and Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this day, Sándor Petöfi (1823-1849) and Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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Burns – in serious financial, & legal, difficulties, mostly of his own making – was on his way to Greenock to take passage to Jamaica, where he had been offered the job of book-keeper on a slave plantation, when news reached him that his book had been enthusiastically received. He decided to stay in Scotland, & attempt a poetical career.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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Burns – in serious financial, & legal, difficulties, mostly of his own making – was on his way to Greenock to take passage to Jamaica, where he had been offered the job of book-keeper on a slave plantation, when news reached him that his book had been enthusiastically received. He decided to stay in Scotland, & attempt a poetical career.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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“You will have heard that I am going to commence Poet in print; and to-morrow my works go to the press. I expect it will be a volume of about two hundred pages. It is just the last foolish action I intend to do—and then turn a wise man as fast as possible.”
The “Kilmarnock Edition” of Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published #OTD, 31 July, 1786.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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“You will have heard that I am going to commence Poet in print; and to-morrow my works go to the press. I expect it will be a volume of about two hundred pages. It is just the last foolish action I intend to do—and then turn a wise man as fast as possible.”
The “Kilmarnock Edition” of Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published #OTD, 31 July, 1786.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory
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"The 'Piebald' Horse," Paulus Potter, 1650-4.
Potter (1625-54) was a Dutch painter, the son of an artist, whose short life was filled by a passion for painting animals.
Although he did a handful of portraits of humans (including a self-portrait), his nearly 100-painting oeuvre is almost entirely paintings of animals in a landscape. Although he was a painter of the Baroque era, his style was admired by the later Romantics who embraced his depictions of noble animals.
Here we have a piebald horse, standing majestically against a cloudy sky and rolling meadows. There's a manor house to the right and if you squint, you can find a horseman with some hounds, but this horse dominates all, fierce and free.
He often included humans, and one painting, "The Punishments of a Hunter," shows a huntsman being put on trial by woodland animals!
He died sadly young, only 28, but there's a charming memorial statue in his home town of Enkhuizen, of him sitting and sketching a distant statue of a goat.
From the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
#Art #PaulusPotter #Baroque #Horse #AnimalsInArt #Piebald #Romanticism
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"The 'Piebald' Horse," Paulus Potter, 1650-4.
Potter (1625-54) was a Dutch painter, the son of an artist, whose short life was filled by a passion for painting animals.
Although he did a handful of portraits of humans (including a self-portrait), his nearly 100-painting oeuvre is almost entirely paintings of animals in a landscape. Although he was a painter of the Baroque era, his style was admired by the later Romantics who embraced his depictions of noble animals.
Here we have a piebald horse, standing majestically against a cloudy sky and rolling meadows. There's a manor house to the right and if you squint, you can find a horseman with some hounds, but this horse dominates all, fierce and free.
He often included humans, and one painting, "The Punishments of a Hunter," shows a huntsman being put on trial by woodland animals!
He died sadly young, only 28, but there's a charming memorial statue in his home town of Enkhuizen, of him sitting and sketching a distant statue of a goat.
From the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
#Art #PaulusPotter #Baroque #Horse #AnimalsInArt #Piebald #Romanticism
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On this date 156 years ago, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-1870)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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On this date 156 years ago, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-1870)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00374 -
This day 184 years ago: date of death of Clemens Brentano (1778-1842).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00078 -
This day 184 years ago: date of death of Clemens Brentano (1778-1842).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00078 -
William Blake's poem 'The Tyger' explores the horrific and terrifying aspects of creation: "In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?" The poem asks serious questions of a god that could create such a cruel natural order. There are also hints of the Greek myth of Prometheus and his 'insolence' in seizing the divine fire and bringing it to earth. #FairytaleTuesday #poetry #folklore #mythology #poems #poetry #poets #literature #art #Romanticism
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William Blake's poem 'The Tyger' explores the horrific and terrifying aspects of creation: "In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?" The poem asks serious questions of a god that could create such a cruel natural order. There are also hints of the Greek myth of Prometheus and his 'insolence' in seizing the divine fire and bringing it to earth. #FairytaleTuesday #poetry #folklore #mythology #poems #poetry #poets #literature #art #Romanticism
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In Romantic-period literary history: death of Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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In Romantic-period literary history: death of Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Today marks the 220th anniversary of the death of Karoline von Günderode (1780-1806).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00097 -
Today marks the 220th anniversary of the death of Karoline von Günderode (1780-1806).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00097 -
Today in Romantic-period poetry: André Chénier (1762-1794) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Today in Romantic-period poetry: André Chénier (1762-1794) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)’s death date.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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This day 167 years ago: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)’s death date.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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This day 167 years ago: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)’s death date.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, ScotlandPapers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scottish-literature/14th-international-walter-scott-conference
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers
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CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, ScotlandPapers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scottish-literature/14th-international-walter-scott-conference
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers
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Today marks the 230th anniversary of the death of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00002 -
Today marks the 230th anniversary of the death of Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00002 -
“It is apparent from Burns’s correspondence, his poetry, and even from his First Commonplace Book that the bard was plagued by ill health on several occasions throughout his short life”
—From the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies’ “Editing Robert Burns” blog
4/4
https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burns-and-death/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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“It is apparent from Burns’s correspondence, his poetry, and even from his First Commonplace Book that the bard was plagued by ill health on several occasions throughout his short life”
—From the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies’ “Editing Robert Burns” blog
4/4
https://burnsc21.glasgow.ac.uk/robert-burns-and-death/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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“This Sonnet I have written in a strange mood, half asleep. I know not how it is, the Clouds, the sky, the Houses, all seem anti Grecian & anti Charlemagnish—”
Fame & Judgement: Keats at Burns’s Tomb (1818)
3/4
https://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/fame-and-judgement-keats-at-burnss-tomb/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #Keats #JohnKeats #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism
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“This Sonnet I have written in a strange mood, half asleep. I know not how it is, the Clouds, the sky, the Houses, all seem anti Grecian & anti Charlemagnish—”
Fame & Judgement: Keats at Burns’s Tomb (1818)
3/4
https://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/fame-and-judgement-keats-at-burnss-tomb/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #Keats #JohnKeats #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism
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I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…—William Wordsworth, “At the Grave of Burns, 1803, Seven Years After His Death”
William Wordsworth has a go at a Standard Habbie
2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Wordsworth #WilliamWordsworth #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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I shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…—William Wordsworth, “At the Grave of Burns, 1803, Seven Years After His Death”
William Wordsworth has a go at a Standard Habbie
2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Wordsworth #WilliamWordsworth #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near…Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near…Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism
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Today in Romantic-period poetry: date of death of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787-1855).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Today in Romantic-period poetry: date of death of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) and Konstantin Batyushkov (1787-1855).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
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Satan in His Original Glory, by William Blake. Notice the smaller spirits emanating from the larger one, a common theme in Blake's work. #gothic #art #arthistory #history #folklore #poetry #poets #Romanticism #literature #mythology
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Satan in His Original Glory, by William Blake. Notice the smaller spirits emanating from the larger one, a common theme in Blake's work. #gothic #art #arthistory #history #folklore #poetry #poets #Romanticism #literature #mythology
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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
