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Baronne Madeleine Deslandes

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833-1898)

Date: 1895-1896

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

Baronne Madeleine Deslandes (1866–1929) was an accomplished novelist who moved in literary and artistic circles in Paris. She was hostess of a busy salon that attracted many Symbolist artists, poets and composers, such as Gabriel Fauré, Jean Lorrain, Robert de Montesquiou, Jules Bois and Oscar Wilde. A firm enthusiast for the English Pre-Raphaelite style, and a particular advocate of Edward Burne-Jones’s art in France, the Baronne had lobbied the artist, a somewhat reluctant portraitist, to create her likeness during a visit she made to England in 1893. The Baronne perceived herself as something of a visionary, and Burne-Jones has made reference to this self-awareness by placing a laurel tree (a traditional emblem of prophecy) behind her, and a crystal ball on her lap. This may also account for the formal qualities of this work – the rather rigid pose of the sitter and her very serious, inwardly reflective and sensitive facial expression.

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draka/vashj enemies to lovers slowburn 80k words fanfic WHEN?

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One of my newer rarepair obsessions.  Jade and Lydia from Into the Badlands on AMC.  This ship can 100% be blamed on my hopeless crush on Orla Brady.  I’ll post the one-shot I wrote for them on Ao3 here eventually. 

Also my first screencap storyboard.  haha

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The Baronesses Are Coming! And Filling a Comedy Gender ... - http://wp.me/p91lk4-1a - #Baronesses, #Comedy, #Coming, #Filling, #Gender, #Television, #Tv

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#Thursdaylook #HouseofLords #Seminar #InternationalRelationsCommittee #UK #UN #Greatnight #Barons #Baronesses #Lords #Ladies #Mycity #MyLondon (at Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, UK)

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This question originally aired on June 30, 2005 Answer: (Margaret) Thatcher http://www.triviabistro.com/JeopardyQuestionImage.aspx?QuestionID=25517 #

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Nobility

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Old People Need to Stop Telling Us That The Internet Is Ruining the World

Baroness Susan Greenfield, a controversial neuroscientist, has an idea. It’s been hard to pin down exactly what that idea is, because rather than publishing a proper explanation of it, she’s spent the last few yearspromoting scare-stories about the wickedness of modern technology in the tabloid press. Greenfield, a 65-year-old who claims never to have visited Facebook—she loathes it that much—usually spends her days writing articles for the Daily Mail. In them, she routinely accuses technology of turning the latest generation of teens and 20-somethings into feeble mouth-breathers who'd sacrifice their physical, mental, and sexual health for a hearty broadband connection.

It's the sort of baseless, hysterical rhetoric you're probably used to by now: “Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with a child-like need for feedback,” “social websites harm people's brains," that kinda stuff. Inevitably, this leads, among other things, to “the fragmentation of our culture.”

However, as people like Dr. Ben Goldacre and Professor Dorothy Bishop have pointed out on numerous occasions, her statements are pretty vague on detail and tend not to be backed up by any direct scientific evidence. In 2010, Goldacre issued an exasperated plea to the Baroness: “You have a responsibility to your peers and most importantly the public to present your theory clearly and formally in an academic journal.”

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