Ms Pernickety Runs Amok

Listening, History, Art.

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Listen the Music of the Damned Secreted In “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

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"A 600 year-old butt song from Hell." Ahem.

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Carlo Crivelli’s Annunciation with Saint Emidius, 1486, National Gallery, London.

LISTEN to the gallery's podcast on the subject of the food in this painting, by art historian Gillian Riley.

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During the alluvione (great flood) that submerged Florence in November 1966, Giorgio Vasari’s large panel painting depicting the Last Supper was under water for twelve hours. Called "one of the worst cases in conservation history," the panel has been the subject of an intensive conservation treatment at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence with financial support from the Getty Foundation.

Vasari received the commission in 1546 from the Benedictine nuns of Santissima Annunziata alle Murate. With the Napoleonic suppression of all religious orders, the Murate was transformed into a jail, and Vasari’s painting was moved to nearby Santa Croce. Because of its large size and multi-panel poplar support, many thought the picture was beyond help. Conservators hope to finish the restoration by 2016, in time for the 50th anniversary of the great flood.

Giorgio Vasari, “The Last Supper,” 1546, reassembled for the first time in nearly 50 years. Archives of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

Conservators at the OPD preparing the reverse of one of the Vasari Last Supper panels for rejoining. Image courtesy Britta New, National Gallery, London

Piazza Santa Croce, 1966

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Frederick McCubbin, Moyes Bay, Beaumaris, 1887. Art Gallery of Western Australia

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“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

 George Orwell (via greatauthorquotes)

True that

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Choir mosaics of San Vitale, 526-548, Ravenna, Italy

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Mosaics, Ravenna

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Saint Dominic expelling a demonic cat  Vincent of Beauvais, Le Miroir Historial (French translation of Jean de Vignay), Paris 1400-1410.

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 72 A 24, fol. 313v

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St Dominic exorcising a demonic cat

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Orazio Gentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (detail), c. 1608-09

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Plague, anyone?

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Ferocious drug jar from Santa Maria Nuova, the first hospital in Florence dedicated to focusing on patient care.

You may be wondering, what kind of hospital doesn’t focus on caring for the sick? Well, Middle Ages Florence fell into the trend of having simple city-limits hospices that acted as a kind of B&B service to weary travelers, instead of full hospitals for the sick.

You go Santa Maria Nuova!

Two-Handled “Oak Leaf” Drug Jar, about 1431, Unknown. Tin-glazed earthenware. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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@OxfordWords: “True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.” Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013.

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Admonishment Against Noisy Eating

Nor should one gnaw or chew such that you hear the sound or noises, since there is a difference between the eating of men and pigs.

- Della Casa

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More eavesdropping by Reggianini

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There’s something intensely romantic In the notion that if you ever feel alone and toxic You can just pick up the phone And start to talk And someone will always be listening

Iain Thomas, ”25 Love Poems for the NSA” (via oofpoetry)

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Eavesdropping, Vittorio Reggianini, 19th Century. From: http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vittorio_Reggianini_Eavesdropping.jpg