#Column Table

[thejourneymanandco]

Bespoke Pedestal Table with Tapered Edge

This is a handmade pedestal table made from solid hardwood finished in Omso Polyx. The round top and been tapered on the underside to the edge that give the table a fine and delicate profile and very light look. The centre column is turned from a solid piece of Oak and the base is a thick 40+mm and tapered to mirror the table top (the base is 10-20cm smaller diameter than the top depending top size and height).

The piece will made in three sections, top, post and base to reduce chance of damage and freight costs. The images are from the construction and will be adding images of the finished piece soon.

The aim with this piece is to produce a simple, clean and delicate design that is a very functional piece but with a minimal appearance. It is available in many diameter and height and can be used as a side table, display table, coffee table and much more.

Like all the pieces I make it has been made by hand to order (we hold no stock). They are made with traditional tools, hand planed and cabinet scraped to create a smooth surface. The timber natural features vary in each piece of timber which in turn makes each piece individual and unique.

[vintagehomecollection]

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[allegorypaintings]

An Allegory of Intelligence

Artist: Caesar Dandini (Italian, 1596–1657)

Date: ca. 1656

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[royalty-nobility]

King Ludwig I of Bavaria in Coronation Regalia

Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781–1858)

Date: 1826

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

King Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ludwig I (1786-1868) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. He was the godson and namesake of Louis XVI of France. As admirer of ancient Greece and the Italian Renaissance Ludwig patronized the arts as principal of many neoclassical buildings, especially in Munich, and as fanatic collector.

[hungwy]

Doing my own philosophy is so embarrassing because even with only my drafts I know I'd be known as the mfer with a table of terminology in every paper. I really love tables

[mythologypaintings]

Penelope Reading a Letter from Odysseus

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Penelope is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia. Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the attention of more than a hundred suitors during his absence. In one source, Penelope's original name was Arnacia or Arnaea.

[galleryofart]

La Rosière or Le Baiser de Protection de la Dame du Lieu (‘The kiss of Protection by the Local Chatelaine’)

Artist: Marguerite Gérard (French, 1761-1837)

Date: ca. 1806

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property from the Collection of Melinda and Paul Sullivan

[artemlegere]

A Scene from Milton's "Comus"

Artist: Charles Robert Leslie (American, 1794–1859)

Date: Exhibited 1844

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Milton's Comus

Comus (A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity written by John Milton. It was first presented on Michaelmas 1634 before John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater at Ludlow Castle in celebration of the Earl's new post as Lord President of Wales.

The plot concerns two brothers and their sister, simply called "the Lady", lost in a journey through the woods. The Lady becomes fatigued, and the brothers wander off in search of sustenance.

[historypaintings]

Virgil Reading the 'Aeneid' to Augustus, Octavia and Livia

Artist: Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar (French, 1762–1834)

Date: 1790-1793

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

In the late 18th century, the French Academy promoted a severely Classical approach to history painting as a means to regenerate art -and in contrast to the perceived decadence of the Rococo style. Jacques-Louis David and his students were leading exponents of this Neoclassical approach, treating antique subjects as moral exemplars for contemporary audiences. Here, David’s student Jean-Baptiste Wicar depicted the response of the Roman emperor Augustus and his family to Virgil’s reading of his epic poem the Aeneid, which tells the story of Aeneas, the Trojan prince who settled in Latium after many adventures and was viewed as an ancestor of Augustus. The emotionally charged gestures of Augustus and his sister Octavia suggest that they identify their own family drama with the heroic events recounted by Virgil.

[portrait-paintings]

William Buckland (1734-1774)

Artist: Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741–1827)

Date: 1774, reworked 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Peale's portrait of William Buckland, the Annapolis architect and builder, was begun when Buckland was in the flush of his success, having finished his architectural masterpiece, the Matthias Hammond House. Peale shows Buckland in a relaxed pose holding a drafting pen, with the architectural plans for Hammond House on the table. The imaginative symbolic background displays the base of a monumental column and an uncommon five-column portico. Peale has caught Buckland's vigorous personality and strength of character, creating a portrait of vivacity and individuality. Buckland died unexpectedly before the portrait was finished, and Peale did not complete it until fifteen years later, at the request of the sitter's daughter.

[moeblob]

I haven't even played in a while but felt like drawing trash can goblin ...

[didyousaykfc]

god gives his toughest battles (formatting a resume on word) to his weakest soldiers

[vintagehomecollection]

House Beautiful Color, 1993

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Grammar

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

This painting is one of a series depicting the Seven Liberal Arts, which represent disciplines associated with learning and language – grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy – as half-length figures of women. Grammar is shown as a woman watering plants, conveying the idea that young minds need encouragement to develop and grow. The Latin inscription on the scroll can be translated as ‘A meaningful and literate word spoken in the correct manner’.

La Hyre’s figure imitates classical sculpture: her drapery appears solid and is arranged in crisp, overlapping folds. Further references to the classical age can be seen in the column and ornate urn.

La Hyre was probably inspired by Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, an illustrated dictionary in which ideas were represented through images of people. The French edition was published in 1644, about five years before the artist began his series.

[royalty-nobility]

Louis XV in Coronation Robes

Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743)

Date: 1730

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of The History of France, Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

Louis XV

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved, was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom.

[artandthebible]

The Feast of Herod

Artist: Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

Date: ca. 1635-1638

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

Herodias’ daughter, Salome, had danced so beautifully that Herod had promised to grant her any wish. Prompted by Herodias, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist. This was Herodias’ revenge for the Baptist’s outspoken criticism of her marriage to Herod. Here Salome presents Saint John the Baptist’s head to King Herod. Herod shrinks back in horror. To his left, Herodias prods the Baptist’s tongue with a fork. Rubens conveys the dramatic moment through the actions and expressions of his larger than life size figures, his rich colours and bold contrasts of light and shadow. The picture was probably painted for Gaspar de Roomer, a Flemish merchant based in Naples, and inspired a number of Italian artists.