scurvyoaks
scurvyoaks
Scurvy Oaks
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If you like American furniture, neoclassical architecture, 18th and 19th century portraits, old churches, old cars, and occasional pieces of opinion, this is the place for you.“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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scurvyoaks · 7 hours ago
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Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie
Artist: Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)
Date: 1777
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States
Description
Lady Crosbie's mirthful expression, windswept tendrils, and spontaneous sense of motion convey an air of charming informality. Her casual elegance reflects a general trend toward naturalism that arouse in the late 1700s, largely the result of a relaxation of decorum in high society and the fashionable negligence popularized by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, whose portrait hangs nearby.
Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie
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scurvyoaks · 12 hours ago
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Chatham, Mass.
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scurvyoaks · 13 hours ago
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Princess Birgitta of Sweden || Märthaskolan
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scurvyoaks · 15 hours ago
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On the third day he rose again. ~The Three Ecumenical Creeds 1:5 (Apostles' Creed)
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Ernest C. Peixotto, Philadelphia, 1897, ink wash.
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scurvyoaks · 1 day ago
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Modernity has gifted us nouns for verbs.
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Josquin Desprez - De profundis clamavi
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scurvyoaks · 1 day ago
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"'Whilst searching for best use cases to illustrate the practicality and beauty of the semicolon, we found many historical texts but fewer contemporary examples,' she adds. 'Our findings reveal that the semicolon is an ‘endangered’ punctuation mark, abandoned by many British writers who might have been expected to showcase its value and often misunderstood by younger generations.'”
Sad.
Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily.
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Portrait of Caroline von Holnstein (1834) by Joseph Karl Stieler
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Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of Sir Thomas More
I just wanted to add this because this portrait of More is so pretty yet unknown.
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