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[maureen2musings]

Balearic Islands, Spain

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[useless-catalanfacts]

Four-leafed glass door made by the Catalan artisan, carpenter and stained-glass maker Frederic Vidal around the year 1900. He was a master of the cloisonné technique of stained glass.

Some more of his work, all made around 1900:

And a beautiful example of his furniture:

(By the way, Frederic Vidal was the brother of the Modernist painter Lluïsa Vidal).

All the photos in this post are by the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), who exhibits his work.

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Manuel Sayrach i Carreras (Catalan, 1886-1937) - Casa Sayrach

[yvanspijk]

Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

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[oldpaintings]

Gilders, 1891 by Manuel Cusí (Catalan, 1857--1919)

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Ramiro Fernandez Saus (b.1961) - My Room in Montferri. 2022. Oil on canvas.

[keepscrollinghun]

Eloïse ↳ 2009. dir. Jesús Garay