Anything & Everything

[lovely-rose-lady]

Checkout my Snapchat! I’m taking song requests!

Post a song in the comments and I’ll do my best to sing it for six seconds!

Snapcode: @hailey_8580

[hadrian6]

Relief of Zeus. Marble  (originally covered with gold leaf), Roman copy from the 2nd century AD after a Greek original from the 5th century BC; several restorations (nose, lips, neck and part of the bust).

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[monsieurleprince]

Luìs Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896) - The planet Venus, 1882

[csuanthgr]

Anthropology in Crisis, From Savage to Self - BBC Radio 4

Farrah Jarral examines how the end of empire brought a dramatic change of mindset.

[medievalautumn]

Portrait of Jane Seymour, c. 1537. Oil and tempera on oak, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. / Hans Holbein the Younger

[jaded-mandarin]

Daniel Huntington. Detail from Sowing the Word, 1868.

[whencyclopedia]

PEOPLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Miltiades (Athenian General) 

MILTIADES (c. 555-489 BCE) was the Athenian general who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE. The Greeks faced a Persian force of superior numbers led by the commanding admiral Datis, who had been sent by their king Darius I (549-486 BCE) to invade and subjugate Greece. At the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades recognized that traditional Greek strategy would never succeed against the larger Persian force and adopted a completely unexpected  tactic which broke the Persian lines, won the battle, and saved Greece from Persian domination.

Miltiades was the son of  Cimon of Athens, an aristocratic charioteer well known for his success in the Olympics. Cimon was a  member of the wealthy and highly regarded Philaid clan, and Miltiades was educated by the best teachers and groomed for success in politics. He inherited a kingdom in Asia Minor in his twenties when his brother, Stesagoras, died without any children to leave his estate to. This kingdom was in the Chersonese, north of the site of ancient Troy, and had proved a very prosperous holding for Miltiades’ family.

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Article by Joshua J. Mark on AHE

[besbrodepianos-blog]

A  Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano with a mahogany case. The first electric grand piano!

 The Neo-Bechstein was initially developed in an attempt to combat falling piano sales.  In 1929, Bechstein alongside the Nobel Prize Holder Professor Nernst, Siemens and Telefunken pioneered the construction of a home entertainment system incorporating the first electric grand piano,  radio, record player and amplifier. The Neo-Bechstein was born. This instrument allowed the pianist  to play alone or accompany the built-in radio or the record player.

The Neo-Bechstein incorporates many pioneering inventions and features the first electromagnetic pick-up. Developed by Prof. Nernst,  every five notes share one pick-up.  Professor Nernst and his assistant Mr Driescher developed   “micro-hammers”, a smaller version of the usual hammer. This smaller vibration was picked-up and sent to the loudspeaker. The first electric piano was born.

 Volume is increased by pressing the left pedal, however it also alters the tone of the piano. At lowest volume it is reminiscent of a spinet. With more volume an electric piano. However at full pelt it wah’s like a rock guitar. You could say the Neo-Bechstein  appeared 30 years before its time. Its unique tone would have been more at home in the  1950’s or 1960’s.

Today, only 22 Neo-Bechstein pianos are known to exist worldwide and of those, only three are fully functional.  One is in the Technical Museum of Vienna, another in the Musical Museum in Prague and this is the third. This Neo-Bechstein has been fully restored, it is 83 years old and still is complete with record player and loudspeaker.

This Neo-Bechstein is for sale at Besbrode Pianos. Click for more information

[sixpenceee]

THE SHANGHAI BABY

The Second Sino-Japanese War began in July 1937. Japan announced they were going to bomb the Shanghai’s Whampoo River.  On August 28, 1937, and news teams gathered to capture the event.

The bombers didn’t hit the Chinese defenses. They hit the city’s train station—which housed 1,800 civilians waiting for evacuation, mostly women and children. The Japanese aircrews had mistaken them for troops. In total, 1,500 died.

The photographer, H.S. Wong, saw a man rescuing children from the tracks. The man placed the first young child on the platform edge before returning to help another—and that is the picture Wong took.

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[loumargi]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti- A Vision of Fiammetta, 1878

[femalebeautyinart]

Poetry (detail) by Marie-Victoire Lemoine, 1783

[loumargi]

Eugenio Cecconi

[loumargi]

Fredrick Morgan (1847-1927)

[tokyo-fashion]

Antique Doll Inspired Fashion by Indie Japanese Label Priere

Published a short profile of independent Harajuku fashion brand Priere. The brand was created 2015 by 21-year-old Bunka Fashion College student Yukarin. She told us that she is inspired by antique dolls and European buildings. Yukarin’s brand - like her personal style - incorporates elements from Japanese Dolly Kei and Cult Party Kei. Full Article

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[mineralists]

Carved Skull Chrysocolla Specimen

[whencyclopedia]

PEOPLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Publius Quinctilius Varus (Roman Politician and General) 

PUBLIUS Quinctilius Varus (c. 46 BCE – 9 CE) was a Roman politician and general under the rule of Emperor Augustus. He is most remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes in the battle of Teutoburg Forest, which caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River.

Publius Quinctilius Varus was born c. 46 BCE in an old patrician family. His father, Sextus Quinctilius Varus, was a republican. Sextus was a quaestor in 49 BCE and defended the city of  Corfinium from the siege of Julius Caesar during the civil war against Pompey. When Julius Caesar was assassinated, Sextus was at the battlefield of Philippi battling against Marc Antony and Octavian. As Marc Antony and Octavian defeated the last of the republicans, Sextus committed suicide.

Publius Quinctilius Varus had none of his father’s republican tendencies. He became a political friend of Augustus and was made quaestor in c. 21 BCE. Varus married Vipsania Marcella Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the right-hand man of Emperor Augustus. He was made consul in 13 BCE along with Tiberius, the stepson of Augustus, who himself was married to one of Agrippa’s daughters, Vipsania Agrippina.

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Article by Martini Fisher on AHE