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Handmade Crochet Flower Garland by HandmadebyLouise
The Roman Widow
Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828 - 1882)
Date: 1874
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Description
In 'The Roman Widow', Dante Gabriel Rossetti, founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, crafted an image of a widow performing a musical eulogy for her deceased husband. The inscription on the tombstone depicted in the upper right reads: “To the deities of the Underworld, Papiria Gemina has made this for her dearest husband, Lucius Aelius Aquinus: Hail, master, and farewell, master.”
Rossetti based his figure on a drawing he made of one of his favorite models, Alexa Wilding (1847–1884). The work shows the imprint of Italian Renaissance art, especially the influence of Titianesque Venetian portraiture. It also reveals Rossetti’s fascination with the classical world’s art and culture. The artist modeled the marble cinerary urn after one he owned.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805, French) ~ Flora And Zephyr, n/d (detail)
Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)
Date: 1780-1785
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Description
The portrait follows a popular model of the day with the sitter presented as if recreating a moment from classical antiquity, in this case making a sacrifice to Minerva. The goddess of wisdom and one of the principal deities of the Roman pantheon is depicted as a sculpture in the background on the left, wearing a helmet and holding a shield. The foot of the fine bronze burner on which the sitter makes her sacrifice is decorated with a serpent — another symbol of Minerva — and has a garland of real flowers twined around it. The background planes are executed with an extremely free brushstroke and highly diluted pigment used to depict the interior walls and a garden on the left. The handling is tighter in the figure, particularly on her face and hair. The present composition is based on a canvas by Joshua Reynolds now in the Art Institute of Chicago of Lady Sarah Bunbury offering a Sacrifice to the Three Graces, dating to 1775. The overall approach, the position of Sarah Bunbury and other details are all closely followed in the present canvas.
Svatojánský věnec (Midsummer headwreathe)
This year I plan on going all out and making something magnificent with foraged herbs and flowers—so I’m beginning research now.
In the past I’ve used fleabane, tickseed, black-eyed susan, queen anne’s lace, sedge, honeysuckle, and prickly pear.
Czech midsummer věnce are most usually made with nine herbs, though the number can vary from region to region. I plan on using nine since that is the most common, plus the number nine shows up symbolically in other Czech traditions such as the nine strands in a vanočka (braided Christmas bread), and nine course Štědrovečerní večeře (Christmas eve) dinner.
“The nine St. John's herbs are suitable not only for a wreath, but also for your green pharmacy, from which you can draw all year round.”
“Girls were supposed to collect St. John's herbs in nine places, without looking back or speaking. The bouquet was placed under the pillow, but a věnec was also made from the flowers.”
“The nine St. John's herbs varied by region, but the most common among the meadow flowers were thyme, St. John's wort, comfrey, wormwood, daisy, cornflower, ergot, blín, stonecrop, and tears of the Virgin Mary, as the pretty pink carnation was called.”
“But all sorts of meadow flowers are suitable for věnce, traditionally they were also important medicinal plants—including, for example, yarrow, plantain, black elderberry, or linden.”
“The herbs are definitely not to be thrown away and will come in handy all year round. Herbal mixtures made from the nine flowers are used for digestion, relaxation, and even for colds.”
“Yarrow, common pennyroyal, and wormwood will promote good digestion, to which you can add nettle, common sage, and sage.”
“Elderberry, linden, thyme, plantain and yarrow help with colds, and thyme and chamomile can also be added.”
“To calm down and fall asleep, use St. John's wort and St. John's wort together with lemon balm, yarrow, or daisy.”
Solstice Eve walk 2022: tickseed, elderberry, mountain mint, trumpet vine, dewberry, fleabane, touch-me-not, lizard’s tail
I’ll be doing more research into the medicinal and magical properties of plants that I forage before deciding on a complete list of my nine. I know I’ll want to use sheep sorrel because of my personal connection to the plant, and I usually use honeysuckle vine as a base. If the sunflowers growing under the feeder are blooming I’m sure I’ll use them to represent the sun—same with the prickly pear. I may also work in hazel and birch leaves since those are the trees I’m working with this year.
@graveyarddirt obligatory ping because—vinok!
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Pořad věnovaný tradicím svatojánské noci, které přečkaly do dnešních dob. Patří mezi ně například pálení svatojánských ohňů. K těm zaniklým
Flower Garland is looking fancy.
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