#fidelity

[7pleiades7]

Hermione (1874) by Sir Thomas Francis Dicksee (English, 1853 – 1928), oil on canvas, 143.3 x 89.4 cm stretcher; 181.0 x 127.5 x 10.5 cm frame, Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Known for his many Shakespearian heroines, Dicksee here portrays Queen Hermione from The Winter’s Tale, who reportedly died following the birth of her daughter. As the plays ends, King Leontes and his daughter are brought before a statue of Hermione recently finished, which comes to life. The artist’s challenge is to represent a figure that is neither quite marble nor quite living flesh ... as if trapped in a no man’s land between art and life, Google Arts & Culture

[evangelinar]

The Warrior

[divinegastronomer]

The Discipline That Reveals the Recipe

The system does not reveal itself to the curious, but to the faithful.

Return to the same practice.

Obey the same rules.

Remove novelty, and error becomes visible.

Repetition strips away intention and leaves consequence.

Constraint turns chance into pattern.

What persists is not accident, but structure.

The cook who changes the recipe never learns it.

The cook who repeats it is corrected by it.

Truth is not discovered through invention, but through fidelity to process—

until the system, having no more noise to hide behind, finally speaks.

[fanfanlemoko]

« La tradition est un choix — un murmure des temps anciens et de l’avenir. Elle me dit qui je suis. Elle me dit que j’appartiens à quelque part. J’appartiens à la terre de l’arbre et de la forêt, du chêne et du sanglier, de la vigne et des toits pointus, de la chanson de geste et des contes de fées, du solstice d’hiver et de la fête estivale de la Saint-Jean, des enfants aux cheveux clairs et aux regards limpides, de l’action résolue et des rêves sauvages, des conquêtes et de la sagesse. Voilà pourquoi je suis un cœur rebelle. Rebelle par fidélité. »

— Dominique Venner, Le Cœur rebelle (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1994).

[thejewellerybox]

Berlin Iron signet ring with cast of faithful dog and band of laurel leaves, c. 1810s

'Historic signet ring of Berlin iron, engraved with the symbol of fidelity and loyalty, a loyal dog lifting his paw and looking upwards at his human. The band is carved of laurel leaves. Laurel leaves are a neoclassical motif which were a symbol triumph and prosperity in ancient Greece and Rome.

Berlin Iron jewelry, made from iron from the Berlin Iron Works carefully and delicately lacquered in black, achieved popularity during the the Napoleonic wars when German women patriotically gave up their precious gold jewelry for the war effort. They were given Berlin iron jewelry in return, which is rare and has become a collector's item. Berlin iron from the earlier days of the Napoleonic war, 1810-1820, tended toward neoclassical designs while later Berlin iron jewelry (the company continued to make the jewelry into the 1840's) tended towards the Gothic.' X

[howifeltabouthim]

'I would make you certain vows on our wedding day . . . I could not take marriage vows lightly . . . All my devotion and fidelity would be pledged to you—for the rest of my life and yours.'

Mary Balogh, from Tangled

[coriesu]

Fidelity

Briton Rivière —1869.