Podcast appearances and mentions of Thomas Gainsborough

Rerun: James Christie held his first auction on 5th December, 1766 - billed as a sale of “genuine household furniture, jewels, plate, firearms, china and a large quantity of madeira and high flavoured claret” belonging to a “Noble Personage (deceased)”. His auction-house, Christie's, went on to become one of the world's leading dealers of fine art. But it took Christie many years to exploit this opportunity, which he accomplished partly by leveraging well-connected friends. His milieu included Richard Tattersall, Thomas Chipperfield, Thomas Gainsborough, Horace Walpole, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick - a ‘Who's Who' of 18th century London once known as ‘Christie's Fraternity of Godparents'. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Christie innovated public viewings, product placement and sales technique; connect the dots between the French Revolution and Christie's biggest successes; and reveal how much it costs to buy a two-headed taxidermied lamb…  Further Reading: • ‘James Christie: the eloquent auctioneer' (Royal Academy of Arts, 2016): https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/james-christie-eloquent-auctioneer • ‘Mr Christie, before Christie's… His early days' (Artprice, 2021): https://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/mr-christie-before-christies-his-early-days • ‘Welcome to Christie's' (Christies, 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ2kq20kK5U ‘Why am I hearing a rerun?' Each Thursday and Friday we repeat stories from our archive of 800+ episodes, so we can maintain the quality of our independent podcast and bring you fresh, free content every Monday-Wednesday…  … But

Adam Worth was the quintessential criminal mastermind. He faked his own death, robbed banks in the US, stole diamonds in South Africa and amassed a fortune that helped him evade capture for decades. As a gentleman thief in London high society, he infamously stole Thomas Gainsborough's celebrated Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.Ben Macintyre, author of ‘The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief', take us through the life of the man who inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Moriarty.Produced by Mariana Des Forges and James Hickmann, and edited by Max Carrey.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Sign up HERE for 50% off for 3 months using code ‘DANSNOW'.We'd love to hear from you - what do you want to hear an episode on? You can email the podcast at ds.hh@historyhit.com.You can take part in our listener survey here.

Ben is in England where he had the opportunity to visit the "Adventures in Time and Space - 60 Years of Doctor Who Art" exhibition at the Weston Museum in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This impressive collection spans the show's history and features original art from novelisations, VHS covers, annuals, and other visual treasures, including works from Chris Achilléos, Andrew Skilleter, Roy Knipe, and Colin Howard. Ben has shared some pictures he took of the overall exhibit and artwork on his Instagram, including Knipe's "Death to the Daleks" Target cover and Achilléos' "Loch Ness Monster", "Kklak", and "Seeds of Doom" covers. Plus the portait of Ace from 'Silver Nemesis' done in the style of Thomas Gainsborough. In addition to being agog as a fan, Ben also shares his curatorial view of the exhibit's strengths and weaknesses. Opening and closing music is by Dudley Simpson from his score to The Android Invasion. We recorded this episode on 1 April 2024.

This week we're at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk. We're always delighted to discover a true gem away from London and this most certainly is one. Housed in the home where the great 18th century portrait and landscape painter artist Thomas Gainsborough grew up, this is now Suffolk's largest art gallery and a global study centre for Gainsborough's work. The house has recently opened its new wing with three new superb and spacious exhibition spaces.  We're talking to Rebecca Salter, the President of the Royal Academy (and the first ever woman to hold the role) about her exhibition of beautiful Japanese-inspired works on show there.   We're also talking to Tim Clayton, the award-winning historian and broadcaster, who has curated a second exhibition on Gainsborough's contemporary, James Gillray, ‘father of the political cartoon'. Tim is also Gillray's biographer and has lots of fascinating insights into Gillray's life and work. The historic house itself is beautifully restored to give an insight into how Gainsborough lived.    There's a beautiful garden, complete with ancient mulberry tree (given Sudbury is the home of silk), a print workshop, a café and a very good shop.  Plus, there's a top floor studio to the new wing with panoramic views over the garden and Sudbury. With this meticulously curated collection of Gillray's prints and Rebecca's beautiful,  meditative, calming paintings on show, it's truly worth a visit. In View:  Rebecca Salter until 10th March James Gillray: Characters in Charicature until  10th March 

Die Debatte mit Ann Kristin Schenten, Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Christoph Martin Vogtherr und Guy Armel Fogang Toyem---Im Jahr 2023 spielt Preußen für die meisten von uns kaum noch eine Rolle. Die alten Schlösser und Gärten sind mehr Ausflugsziele als Orte kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte. Doch die koloniale Vergangenheit ist auch an Orten wie dem Schlosspark Sanssouci omnipräsent. Die Ausbeutung Schwarzer Kulturen und Menschen ist bis heute sichtbar. In den Denkmälern, in den Gemälden, in den Gärten. Nun wird diese koloniale Vergangenheit öffentlich aufgearbeitet. Die Ausstellung "Schlösser, Preussen, Kolonial - Biografien und Sammlungen im Fokus" der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten zeigt ab Juli die Schlossanlagen und Denkmäler in ihrem kolonialen Kontext im Schloss Charlottenburg. Können wir Preußen aus einer postkolonialen Perspektive verstehen lernen? Wo stößt die koloniale Aufarbeitung an Grenzen und wie kann sie nachhaltig gelingen? Darüber diskutieren Christoph Martin Vogtherr, Generaldirektor der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Guy Armel Fogang Toyem, Doktorand für Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin und Joshua Kwesi Aikins, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für Entwicklungspolitik und postkoloniale Studien der Uni Kassel und Aktivist bei "Berlin Postkolonial". --- Joshua Kwesi Aikins ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fachgebiet Entwicklungspolitik und postkoloniale Studien der Universität Kassel. Er hat Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin und der University of Ghana studiert. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind das Zusammenwirken westlicher und indigener politischer Systeme in Ghana, Entwicklungspolitik aus dekolonialer Perspektive, kulturelle und politische Repräsentation der afrikanischen Diaspora, Kolonialität und Erinnerungspolitik in Deutschland sowie kritische Weißseinsforschung. Er arbeitet darüber hinaus als Trainer und Vortragender im Bereich der politischen Bildung mit einem Fokus auf die umkämpfte De/Kolonialität des öffentlichen Raums, menschenrechtsbasierter Antirassismusarbeit und Empowerment. --- Christoph Martin Vogtherr, Jahrgang 1965, studierte Kunstgeschichte, Mittelalterliche Geschichte und Klassische Archäologie in Berlin, Heidelberg und in Cambridge. 1996 wurde er an der Freien Universität Berlin mit einer Arbeit zur Gründung der Berliner Museen 1797–1835 promoviert. Bis 2018 war er Direktor der Hamburger Kunsthalle und initiierte 2017 die partizipative Ausstellung „Open Access“ und 2018 die Schau „Thomas Gainsborough. Die moderne Landschaft“. Am 1. November 2018 berief ihn der Stiftungsrat der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg als Nachfolger von Hartmut Dorgerloh zum Generaldirektor. Am 7. Februar 2019 trat Vogtherr das Amt an. Nach Lehraufträgen in Berlin, an der University of Buckingham und in Hamburg, lehrt er seit 2019 an der Technischen Universität Berlin. --- Guy Armel Fogang Toyem, kommt aus Kamerun und hat Germanistik an der Universität Yaoundé I studiert. 2017 hat er sein Masterstudium in Deutscher Gesellschaftspolitischer Geschichte absolviert. Mit einem DAAD-Stipendium promoviert er seit April 2021 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Deutscher Kolonialgeschichte mit Schwerpunkt auf die Kolonisierung Kameruns/Togo. Er beschäftigt sich mit vergleichender Geschichtswissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Kultur und Erziehung. --- Mehr Infos unter www.rbbkultur.de/derzweitegedanke --- Schreiben Sie uns gern direkt an derzweitegedanke@rbb-kultur.de

Un día como hoy, 14 de mayo: Acontece: 1925: en los Estados Unidos se publica la novela Mrs. Dalloway, de Virginia Woolf. Nace: 1727: Thomas Gainsborough, pintor británico (f. 1788). 1771: Robert Owen, filósofo británico (f. 1858). 1885: Otto Klemperer, director de orquesta y compositor alemán (f. 1973). 1900: Mario Soffici, cineasta argentino (f. 1977). 1944: George Lucas, productor y cineasta estadounidense. 1951: Robert Zemeckis, cineasta estadounidense. 1969: Cate Blanchett, actriz británica de origen australiano. 1984: Mark Zuckerberg, empresario estadounidense, creador de Facebook. Fallece: 1667: Georges de Scudéry, escritor y académico francés (n. 1598). 1847: Fanny Mendelssohn, compositora y pianista alemana (n. 1805). 1912: August Strindberg, escritor y dramaturgo sueco (n. 1849). 1987: Rita Hayworth, actriz, cantante y bailarina estadounidense (n. 1918). 1998: Frank Sinatra, cantante y actor estadounidense (n. 1915). 2015: B. B. King, músico, cantante y compositor estadounidense (n. 1925) Conducido por Joel Almaguer. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023

When Gainsborough painted this classic artwork it was an experiment. He loved to paint landscapes but portraits were the order of the day. So, this painting was his way of combining the two genres. Gainsborough considered it a failed attempt. He left the painting unfinished and handed it off to the Andrews family. That was in the mid 1700s. Then in the 20th century the painting resurfaced and became an acclaimed icon of its time. Mr and Mrs Andrews made its exhibit premiere in 1927 and then the National Gallery in London bought it in 1960. The piece is now considered one of their most famous and popular paintings. It's beloved for the fresh and charming way the subject matter presents the typical social practices of the time it epitomizes.   Read LadyKflo's collected works. Learn about this painting and many more masterpieces with a click through to LadyKflo's site. https://www.ladykflo.com/category/masterpieces/ Checkout her socials too: https://www.instagram.com/ladykflo/ https://twitter.com/ladykflo

James Christie held his first auction on 5th December, 1766 - billed as a sale of “genuine household furniture, jewels, plate, firearms, china and a large quantity of madeira and high flavoured claret” belonging to a “Noble Personage (deceased)”. His auction-house, Christie's, went on to become one of the world's leading dealers of fine art. But it took Christie many years to exploit this opportunity, which he accomplished partly by leveraging well-connected friends. His milieu included Richard Tattersall, Thomas Chipperfield, Thomas Gainsborough, Horace Walpole, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick - a ‘Who's Who' of 18th century London once known as ‘Christie's Fraternity of Godparents'. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how Christie innovated public viewings, product placement and sales technique; connect the dots between the French Revolution and Christie's biggest successes; and reveal how much it costs to buy a two-headed taxidermied lamb…  Further Reading: ‘James Christie: the eloquent auctioneer' (Royal Academy of Arts, 2016): https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/james-christie-eloquent-auctioneer ‘Mr Christie, before Christie's… His early days' (Artprice, 2021): https://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/mr-christie-before-christies-his-early-days ‘Welcome to Christie's' (Christies, 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ2kq20kK5U #1800s #Arts #Person Love the show? Join 

One the world's greatest unsolved art thefts happened in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 1972. Seventeen paintings remain missing, and the cat burglars behind the incident have never been apprehended. In fact, the story sounds a lot like a Hollywood script. Under the cover of darkness, three men entered the building through the one skylight that was under repair, and rappelled into the museum galleries below. It was, it's agreed, a very cinematic theft.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Country Houses are a huge inspiration for our host. After a childhood of being marched around the most incredible houses in the UK, he learnt to love them for their artistic and cultural importance in the landscape of Great Britain. Today, Harry is on a mission to highlight their cultural significance, dispelling their connotations of a grandma's day-out and instead inspiring people to see the benefit of a storied artistic experience that truly connects people with the history and objects of our past. Harry is lucky enough to have worked at one of the UK's finest stately homes and so had plenty of first-hand experience of the people who visit them and how to make them more accessible to all. This week, Harry is joined by two women championing the importance of stately homes. Firstly, we hear from historian and producer at History Hit TV Alice Loxton, who shares some of the stories behind some of her favourite homes, and talks about why more people should get involved with them. Also joining the episode is historian and author Charlotte Furness who discusses her thoughts on how to open up these buildings for all, as well as the reasons they still matter in our cultural landscape. She also shares with us the fascinating history of Anne Lister, a remarkable woman who features in Charlotte's latest book and whose diaries are still studied today as a record of hidden LGBTQ+ voices in the early 19th century.  Harry Stevens is the host of Young at Art and is a 21-year-old art and interiors obsessive passionate about opening up the art world to all. At Young at Art Harry speaks to the tastemakers who are defining a new image of art and design today, with new episodes out weekly. If you enjoyed this episode and want to find who we will be speaking to next, you can follow the podcast on instagram @youngatartpodcast. Today's guests can be found on instagram at @charlottefurnesswriter and @history_alice, and Harry can be found at @planetstevens. For more information about the podcast, please visit the website, www.youngatartpodcast.comThe podcast's cover art was drawn by Beatrice Ross, @beatricealiceross and the intro music was written and performed by Maggie Talibart, @maggie_talibart.  Houses to Visit1. Althorp House, Northamptonshire. A hidden gem only an hour from London, Althorp House has one of the best private art collections in the UK with works by Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Van Dyke and Stubs. Featuring a mix of both modern works and inherited family pieces, the collection at Althorp feels fresh and relevant today. Althorp is also the family home of Princess Diana, and has been lived in by the Spencer Family for over 500 years. https://althorpestate.com 2. Kenwood House, Hampstead, London.Set on London's Hampstead Heath, Kenwood House is owned by English Heritage and was once home to a fascinating character from aristocratic history, Dido Elizabeth Belle, widely considered UK's first black British aristocrat. Dido's story is fascinating; her father Sir John Lindsay was a white Royal Naval Officer and her mother Maria Bell was a black slave living in the British West Indies. She was also a niece of William Murray, later the 1st Earl of Mansfield, who was influential in his views towards the abolition of slavery in the UK, some 60 years before the abolition act was passed in 1833. Her story is explored in the 2013 film Belle. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood/ 3. Castle Howard, YorkshireBridgerton fans rejoice at the sight Castle Howard, which stands in as the fictional Clyvedon Castle, home to the Duke and Duchess of Hastings (played by Regé Jean-Page and Phoebe Dynevor). Castle Howard is a fabulous baroque palace: construction took over 100 years to complete and the result is a masterpiece of early 18th century design. The castle has a wonderful collection of antique sculpture, Canaletto paintings, and is set in acres of beautifully maintained parkland. https://www.castlehoward.co.uk 4. Mapperton House, DorsetHome to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich (Yes, where the name for the infamous lunchtime meal comes from) Mapperton is considered 'the finest manor house in England' and is home to an eclectic mix of objects and intriguing family history. Home to the Montagu family, Mapperton is the home of Julie Montagu - Viscountess Hinchingbrooke - who documents her life living and restoring the home to her YouTube channel (which has nearly 100,000 subscribers, all eager to get a slice of Mapperton life for themselves). Recently seen in Netflix's adaptation of Daphne Du Maruier's novel Rebecca, Mapperton House is a gem set amongst acres of gardens, where the Viscountess can be seen taking her daily ice bath in the 17th century canal garden !https://mapperton.com

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Víðsjá lítur inn í D-sal Listasafns Reykjavíkur þar sem Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir opnaði nýverið sýninguna Snertitaug. Ásgerður Birna býr og starfar í HOllandi en hefur sterka tengingu við íslensku myndlistarsenuna, hefur tekið þátt í samsýningum og rekstri á sýningarrýmum, en þetta er hennar fyrsta einkasýning hér á landi. Á sýningunni er Ásgerður Birna að velta fyrir sér sambandi náttúru og tækni og notar til þess meðal annars sólarrafhlöður, kartöflur, valhnetur og rafmagnssnúrur. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir, nýr leikhúsrýnir Viðsjár, fjallar um Það sem er eftir Peter Asmussen í Tjarnarbíói, einleik í flutningi Maríu Ellingsen. Og við heyrum af málverki sem á sér ansi merkilega sögu, Blá drengnum, eftir breska málarann Thomas Gainsborough. Málverkið er nú komið heim til Bretlands í stutt stopp eftir hundrað ár í Kaliforníu þar sem blái drengurinn býr, en hann varð að merkilegu tákni í réttindabaráttu samkynhneigðra. En við byrjum þáttinn í dag á að láta hugann reika á heitari slóðir, og inn í hvíta villu sem hefur að geyma forvitnilegt safn málverka af börnum. Umsjón: Guðni Tómasson og Halla Harðardóttir

Víðsjá lítur inn í D-sal Listasafns Reykjavíkur þar sem Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir opnaði nýverið sýninguna Snertitaug. Ásgerður Birna býr og starfar í HOllandi en hefur sterka tengingu við íslensku myndlistarsenuna, hefur tekið þátt í samsýningum og rekstri á sýningarrýmum, en þetta er hennar fyrsta einkasýning hér á landi. Á sýningunni er Ásgerður Birna að velta fyrir sér sambandi náttúru og tækni og notar til þess meðal annars sólarrafhlöður, kartöflur, valhnetur og rafmagnssnúrur. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir, nýr leikhúsrýnir Viðsjár, fjallar um Það sem er eftir Peter Asmussen í Tjarnarbíói, einleik í flutningi Maríu Ellingsen. Og við heyrum af málverki sem á sér ansi merkilega sögu, Blá drengnum, eftir breska málarann Thomas Gainsborough. Málverkið er nú komið heim til Bretlands í stutt stopp eftir hundrað ár í Kaliforníu þar sem blái drengurinn býr, en hann varð að merkilegu tákni í réttindabaráttu samkynhneigðra. En við byrjum þáttinn í dag á að láta hugann reika á heitari slóðir, og inn í hvíta villu sem hefur að geyma forvitnilegt safn málverka af börnum. Umsjón: Guðni Tómasson og Halla Harðardóttir

Víðsjá lítur inn í D-sal Listasafns Reykjavíkur þar sem Ásgerður Birna Björnsdóttir opnaði nýverið sýninguna Snertitaug. Ásgerður Birna býr og starfar í HOllandi en hefur sterka tengingu við íslensku myndlistarsenuna, hefur tekið þátt í samsýningum og rekstri á sýningarrýmum, en þetta er hennar fyrsta einkasýning hér á landi. Á sýningunni er Ásgerður Birna að velta fyrir sér sambandi náttúru og tækni og notar til þess meðal annars sólarrafhlöður, kartöflur, valhnetur og rafmagnssnúrur. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir, nýr leikhúsrýnir Viðsjár, fjallar um Það sem er eftir Peter Asmussen í Tjarnarbíói, einleik í flutningi Maríu Ellingsen. Og við heyrum af málverki sem á sér ansi merkilega sögu, Blá drengnum, eftir breska málarann Thomas Gainsborough. Málverkið er nú komið heim til Bretlands í stutt stopp eftir hundrað ár í Kaliforníu þar sem blái drengurinn býr, en hann varð að merkilegu tákni í réttindabaráttu samkynhneigðra. En við byrjum þáttinn í dag á að láta hugann reika á heitari slóðir, og inn í hvíta villu sem hefur að geyma forvitnilegt safn málverka af börnum. Umsjón: Guðni Tómasson og Halla Harðardóttir

Matt sits down with Nick Wiger! Matt and Nick talk about the creative community from their time working at Funny or Die, They talk about video games as the center of creativity in our current society, and they also talk about the Thomas Gainsborough painting Blue Boy

The English countryside calls to mind spaciousness and freedom. English composers have loved this aspect of their native land, perhaps none more than Ralph Vaughan Williams. His depiction of a lark ascending, fluttering, dipping, and gliding immediately conjures images of soaring liberty. Thomas Gainsborough's painting, "Landscape with Country Carts", nearly 150 years earlier, seems to foreshadow what musicians would only later discover: the English countryside is evocative and beautiful. Artwork: Thomas Gainsborough Landscape with Country Carts, ca. 1784–1785 Oil on canvas, 50 3/8 x 40 3/8 in. (128 x 102.6 cm) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection, 75.2.8 Photograph courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Composition: Ralph Vaughan Williams, "The Lark Ascending" (1914) Arrangement by Jonathan Dimmock

Ye Olde Guide is a podcast about the history of English towns and cities.A superbly preserved Georgian resort town owing its existence to unique geology, Bath is one of the most visited cities in England.  We will explore its incredible architecture and much more including :How the city provided creative scenery throughout the ages, from Saxon poetry, to Jane Austen, Thomas Gainsborough and Les Misérables;The event in Bath that provided the blueprint for the British coronation ceremonies to this day;The first discovery of a new planet in a Bath back garden.And of course the unique buildings that form the most complete surviving Georgian city, and how they came to be.Visit us at yeoldeguide.com

Dhamma talk and Q&A session (#3) offered by Venerable Ajahn Sucitto, former abbot of Wat Cittaviveka in England, a monastery in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah https://www.cittaviveka.org 'Buddhism and Environmental Concern' 6th December, 2019 (18.30 - 20.00) Meditation Hall Buddhadāsa Indapañño Archives, Bangkok For other teachings by Ajahn Sucitto, please visit: https://ajahnsucitto.org/ https://forestsangha.org/teachings/bo... https://www.cittaviveka.org/index.php... https://sucitto.blogspot.com/ About Ven. Ajahn Sucitto: Ajahn Sucitto was born in London in 1949. Before entering monastic life, he graduated from England's University of Warwick with a degree in English and American Literature in 1971. He spent a few years following the lifestyle of the alternative culture of the time, before heading overland to India in 1974 on a spiritual quest. This eventually landed him in Thailand in 1975, where he was inspired by a meditation class in English in Wat Meung Maung given by an English monk, Phra Alan Nyānavajīro. Sensing an important turn in his spiritual journey, Sucitto entered the monastery where Phra Nyānavajīro lived: Wat Kiriwong in Nakhon Sawan. On 25 September he took samanera precepts and on 22 March 1976 he was ordained as a bhikku, both in Wat Potharam in Nakhon Sawan. A chance sojourn at Wat Umong in Chiang Mai in December 1976 brought Ajahn Sucitto into contact with (now) Luang Por Sumedho, who was passing through Chiang Mai at the time. This was an auspicious encounter, as it prepared the ground for Ajahn to visit Luang Por in Hampstead when he visited England in 1978. Luang Por had taken up residence in the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara in 1977, and readily accepted Ajahn Sucitto as a disciple. Ajahn trained under Luang Por for much of the ensuing fourteen years. In 1979, Ajahn Sucitto was part of the group that established Cittaviveka Forest Monastery in Chithurst, West Sussex. He lived there for the greater part of his monastic life and was its abbot from 1992 to 2014. He began teaching retreats for laypeople after the Rains Retreat of 1981 and has continued to teach retreats in Britain and overseas ever since. + Risparmio in cucina aloap 1 + Lucie Medici 00:20 Haul Per La Casa (primavera!) + chiacchiere 23:55 Gosling 00:07 Bagaglio A Mano (2015) + Emanuela Torri: Letture Casalinghe N°36 fase 3 Il Vangelo di Gesu' di Paramahansa Yogananda + La Voce delle Sirene con Antonietta Laterza 00:16 LA VOCE DELLE SIRENE 1: Antonietta legge Osho + Radionotizie 6 + I RITRATTI DEL MUSEO DELLA MUSICA DI BOLOGNA Presentazione del volume I ritratti del Museo della Musica di Bologna. Da Padre Martini al Liceo musicale, a cura di Lorenzo Bianconi et al. (Firenze, Olschki, 2018) Intorno al 1770 il francescano Giambattista Martini (1706-1784) avviò nel convento di San Francesco in Bologna una raccolta di ritratti di musicisti, contemporanei e del passato. Tra i tanti pezzi prelibati che l'insigne teorico, erudito e storico della musica seppe attrarre da ogni parte d'Italia e d'Europa spiccano – per citare soltanto i più famosi – il Johann Christian Bach di Thomas Gainsborough, il Farinelli di Corrado Giaquinto, un ritratto di Mozart ventunenne, oltre al trompe-l'œil degli scaffali di libreria di Giuseppe Maria Crespi. + IL MONDO DI MAURIZIO DEEJAY + TARARI .... TARARA + 21_luglio_2021_mamma_helga_basta_devi_rassegnarti + 2a_p_te_21_luglio_2021_mamma_helga_basta_devi_rassegnarti --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radiovrinda/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiovrinda/support

Em 2 de agosto de 1788, morre o inglês Thomas Gainsborough, considerado um dos grandes mestres do retrato e da paisagem. Suas obras estão expostas nos mais importantes museus europeus. Suas telas, impregnadas de melancolia poética, possuem clara reminiscência das paisagens flamengas do século 17.----Quer contribuir com Opera Mundi via PIX? Nossa chave é apoie@operamundi.com.br (Razão Social: Última Instancia Editorial Ltda.). Desde já agradecemos!Assinatura solidária: www.operamundi.com.br/apoio★ Support this podcast ★

This week on The Children's Hour we chat with Julie from Ants on a Log, a band that performs music for children and other childlike people that advocates for positivity, social justice, and silliness through song. This 2-person band consists of Julie and Anya from Philadelphia, PA.  The two began writing together, finding driving harmonies and song topics that were silly, serious, environmental, feminist, gender-bending, and just plain fun. In their off-stage lives, Julie is a music therapist and Anya is an elementary science teacher. Their powers combined make for smart and socially conscious folk, a delight for children and adults of all ages. The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, 1779 This week we discuss the importance of self-realization, and the freedom in being seen for who you are. Many of Ants on a Log songs challenge societal archetypes, such as girls have long hair and boys have short hair - they even have a song called Some Girls Have Short Hair! We visit the topic of pronouns and how they are important and respectful of an individual. Ants even has a mix less on their website called "Practice Your Pronouns". Julie also offers their experience using non-binary pronouns. Curious: Think Outside the Pipeline! is Ants on a Log's award-winning musical story of two siblings who organize their neighbors to fight for clean air. The soundtrack was released in 2019, and the movie was released in 2021. The script is available for schools and communities to perform, and the movie is available for screenings. Learn more at: https://www.antsonalogmusic.com/curious Ants-On-A-Log Playlist titleartistalbumdurationlabel Some Girls Have Short HairAnts on a LogYou Could Draw the Album Art!01:15 2016 Ant Hill Pick It UpFYUTCHPick It Up - Single02:52 2021 Fyusion 28 Days (feat. Tommy Soulati Shepherd & Tommy T3PO Shepherd)Little Miss Ann28 Days03:51 2021 Marsha Marsha Records They're My Best FriendAnts on a LogTrans & Nonbinary Kids Mix02:11 2020 Ant Hill 1) Tip-toe Through the Tulips; 2) Roses of Picardy; 3) It Had to Be You; 4) You Made Me Love YouJohn SidneyJohn Sidney Piano 0801:07 2017 Evergreen Melodies Dress Up and Dance (feat. Ali Wadsworth & Mighty Flipside Esq.)Chana RothmanRainbow Train02:48 2015 Chana Rothman We RoyalAlphabet RockersThe Love03:02 2019 School Time Music LLC Air and SpaceAnts on a LogCurious: Think Outside the Pipeline!02:57 2019 Ant HIll Herrgard's Polka (Instrumental)Brave ComboMood Swing Music00:50 1996 Rounder Records Manufactured and distributed by Concord Music Group VulnerablePierce FreelonBlack to the Future02:31 2021 Blackspace x Only Us Say Something, Do SomethingThe Tallest Kid in the RoomSay Something, Do Something - Single02:48 2021 The Tallest Kid In The Room Dog of My DreamsAnts on a LogDog of My Dreams - Single02:00 2020 Ant Hill B-R-A-V-EAlastair MoockSinging Our Way Through: Songs for the World's Bravest Kids01:17 2013 Alastair Moock No Such Thing as Good or Bad HairUncle DevinBe Yourself!03:50 2018 Uncle Devin Why Does the Sun Shine?They Might Be Giants (For Kids)Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)01:23 2009 Walt Disney Records

Episode: 3254 Pink and the Politics of Gender.  Today, the power of pink.

Today is the 293rd birthday of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. You will easily recognize The Blue Boy and maybe a couple other works, but he really made his money painting portraits for the aristocratic set. Those paintings now are valued for his artistry as well as being a terrific record of the styles and fashions of the 18th century. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left. This episode is also available as a blog post. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waldina/message

Un día como hoy, 14 de mayo: Acontece: 1925: en los Estados Unidos se publica la novela Mrs. Dalloway, de Virginia Woolf. Nace: 1727: Thomas Gainsborough, pintor británico (f. 1788). 1771: Robert Owen, filósofo británico (f. 1858). 1885: Otto Klemperer, director de orquesta y compositor alemán (f. 1973). 1900: Mario Soffici, cineasta argentino (f. 1977). 1944: George Lucas, productor y cineasta estadounidense. 1951: Robert Zemeckis, cineasta estadounidense. 1969: Cate Blanchett, actriz británica de origen australiano. 1984: Mark Zuckerberg, empresario estadounidense, creador de Facebook. Fallece: 1667: Georges de Scudéry, escritor y académico francés (n. 1598). 1847: Fanny Mendelssohn, compositora y pianista alemana (n. 1805). 1912: August Strindberg, escritor y dramaturgo sueco (n. 1849). 1987: Rita Hayworth, actriz, cantante y bailarina estadounidense (n. 1918). 1998: Frank Sinatra, cantante y actor estadounidense (n. 1915). 2015: B. B. King, músico, cantante y compositor estadounidense (n. 1925) Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021

In 1770, master portraitist Thomas Gainsborough created a Rococo painting whose inexplicable universal appeal would echo on down through the ages into 20th century home decor and 21st century flea markets. Make room in your heart for this most splendid of boys!

The Black Presence in British Portraiture discussed in this episode of the BP2 Podcast is Thomas Gainsborough (1768 ) Ignatius Sancho in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada Chaired by Gretchen Gerzina Paul Murray Kendall Professor of Biography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Selected by Paterson Joseph Actor and Writer Assisted by Michael Ohajuru Director, The John Blanke Project Voice introducing the reading Ebun Culwin Music Minuet by Ignatius Sancho revised and arranged by Ben Park Musicians Cello- Rebecca Jordan, Violin- Buffy Rowe, Vocal Sarah Dacey , Bass and Harpsichord-Ben Park Reading The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph (unpublished novel)

Wir springen ins 19. Jahrhundert und beschäftigen uns mit der Biographie von Adam Worth. Er hat nicht nur zahlreiche Verbrechen auf mehreren Kontinenten verübt, in London ein Verbrechens-Kartell aufgebaut und das damals teuerste Gemälde gestohlen, sondern war auch als „Napoleon des Verbrechens“ die Inspiration für den Gegenspieler von Sherlock Holmes: Professor Moriarty. Das Episodenbild zeigt das Gemälde von Thomas Gainsborough mit Georgiana Cavendish, das Adam Worth stiehlt, nachdem es erst kurz zuvor bei einer Auktion für einen Rekordpreis verkauft wurde. Als Literatur für das Thema wird in der Folge das Buch „The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief“ von Ben Macintyre erwähnt.

Today we remember the master landscape and portrait painter who grew up with a magnificent mulberry tree. We learn about the planting of the first potato in Hawaii, and the discovery of a tree named for Benjamin Franklin. We also remember the poet who was inspired not by his day job at an insurance company, but by a beautiful park that was across the street from his house. We review some August Weather Folklore - and all I have to say is you might want to grab your coat. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that lets us drop in on some of the most beautiful spaces on the planet. And then we'll wrap things up with a little post about a gorgeous garden at Longwood. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world, and today's curated news.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy.   Curated News Cheery Hollyhocks Brighten Up the Garden | Southern Living  These vibrant blooming stalks can reach heights of 8 feet. Here's an excerpt: "In summer, we can't get enough of hollyhocks. These plants are long-blooming summer flowers that appear in spikes of bright blossoms. Hollyhocks (Alcea rosea) are cottage garden favorites because of their appearance and extended bloom time. The warm-weather bloomers are low-maintenance plantings and make great additions to cut flower gardens. They're also known to attract birds to the garden." These perennials and biennials thrive in the sun and in the right conditions will grow to heights of 3 to 8 feet and widths of 1 to 3 feet. Their dramatic heights make an impact in mass plantings and can create magical effects in the garden. They're also capable of acting as privacy plantings. Hollyhocks are beautiful when planted in en masse in one color or in a variety of colors. They're vibrant and welcoming and can add a cheery note to backyard gardens and front-yard designs. (Hello, curb appeal!) The foliage of hollyhocks is bright green, sometimes in shades of blue-green, and the flowers appear in a rainbow of colors including red, white, pink, purple, yellow, and blue. Foliage surrounds the base of the plant and appears on stems higher up the center stalk. When it's time to bloom, the flowering stalks are covered in buds, and the blooms begin to unfurl, opening from the bottom and emerging gradually up the stalk. In regard to care, usually, you'll have to wait a year after first planting to enjoy hollyhock blooms. Be patient: Once the hollyhocks have spent a year growing, they'll put on a vibrant show. In addition to full sun and regular water, they also appreciate having a support system nearby. The tallest varieties like to be planted against a wall or a fence to keep them growing upright. Some popular selections to plant include 'Chater's Double,' which has peachy-pink, yellow, and white blooms, 'Peaches 'n Dreams,' which has double apricot-hued blooms, and 'Creme de Cassis,' which has vibrant magenta flowers. Did you have hollyhocks in your family garden growing up? Do you want to plant some of these summer blooms in your garden this year?" Link to Pinterest Page on Hollyhock Dolls   Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1788   Today is the anniversary of the death of the landscape and portrait painter, known for his painting of the Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough is regarded as one of the master Landscape painters. But, he is also remembered for his portraits, which made his subjects look relaxed, natural, and beautiful. Thomas's portraits were a direct result of customer preference, and Thomas's customers were the elite. In fact, his commissioned paintings of King George III and Queen Charlotte made him a favorite with royals. So much so, that after Thomas died at age 61, he was buried in the royal church. Today, you can visit Thomas's house in Sudbury. It has been turned into a charming art center,... and there's also the garden - the garden Thomas grew up in. And, it has a spectacular mulberry tree with falling down branches dating to the early 1600s during the reign of James I, who encouraged the planting of mulberry trees so that he could establish a silk industry. Although England never successfully became known for silkworms, the craft of silk weaving became firmly rooted. The Gainsborough families were weavers. In fact, over 95% of the woven silk in England comes from Sudbury. Now, back when James I and his advisers were trying to get into silk making, they lacked the knowledge about Mulberry trees. There are actually two kinds of Mulberries. The white mulberry tree feeds silkworms, and the black tree supplies the fruit. The Gainsborough Mulberry (as well as every other Mulberry cultivated in England) was the black Mulberry. And this tree, the Gainsborough Mulberry, would have been over a hundred years old when Thomas was born. In addition to the ancient Gainsborough Mulberry, which is regarded as a sentinel tree or a tree that has kept watch for a great many years, the Gainsborough garden includes two beds for Herbs and another that has plants used for dying fabric. There are also beautiful trees such as the medlar, quince, and Witch Hazel (Hamamelis Mollis), which gives some beautiful color and scent to the garden early in the year. The rest of the garden is made up of plants that were available during Thomas's lifetime in the 18th Century. And, Thomas once said, "Nature is my teacher and the woods of Suffolk, my academy."   1820   The first potatoes were planted in Hawaii. It turns out, the American brig, the Thaddeus, brought more than the first missionaries to the island.   Four years later, the mango tree would be introduced. By 1828, the first coffee plant would be grown in Kona. It marked the beginning of the Kona Coffee Industry.   1938   The Belvedere Daily Republican, out of Belvedere Illinois, published a small article about a tree named for Benjamin Franklin. Here's what it said: "About 200 years ago, John Bartram, an eminent botanist, discovered a strange flowering tree in a Georgia forest and named it "Franklinia" in honor of his fellow Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin." The discovery of the Franklinia made John Bartram famous. The Franklinia is in the tea family, and it has blossoms similar to the Camellia. Thirty years after Bartram's discovery, the Franklinia went extinct in the wild - the last one was seen in 1803 - and the only surviving Franklinias are descended from the original seed and the work of Bartram's Garden, North America's oldest botanic garden, who worked to preserve the species. Bartram himself lovingly cultivated the Franklinia. It was Benjamin Franklin who said, "I have thought that wildflowers might be the alphabet of angels."   1955   Today is the anniversary of the death of poet Wallace Stevens Stevens said, "Death is the mother of beauty.  Only the perishable can be beautiful,  which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers." Stevens was one of the most skilled poets of the 20th Century. He lived his entire adult life near Elizabeth Park in Hartford, Connecticut. By day, Stevens worked at Hartford insurance company where he became a Vice President, and by night, he was a poet; it was in an unusual combination. Stevens lived two miles from his work, and he walked to work every day, undoubtedly using the time to find inspiration and to write poems. The park across from his house was one of his favorite places. Elizabeth Park is huge, covering over 100 acres with formal gardens, meadows, lawns, greenhouses, and a pond. Stevens wrote the following poems About Elizabeth Park: Vacancy in the Park The Plain Sense of Things Nuns Painting Water Lilies By 1950, Stevens was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poetry. And, here's a little known fact about Wallace Stevens: He once started a fist-fight with Ernest Hemingway in Key West.   Unearthed Words August Weather Folklore. It's surprising how many August sayings mention winter. Here's some August Weather Folklore: As August, so February. If the first week in August is unusually warm,  The winter will be white and long. So many August fogs, so many winter mists For every fog in August, There will be a snowfall in winter. Observe on what day in August the first heavy fog occurs, and expect a hard frost on the same day in October.         If a cold August follows a hot July, It foretells a winter hard and dry. In August, thunderstorms after St. Bartholomew (August 24th) are mostly violent. When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine.           August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes. — Rasmenia Massoud, author and short story writer, August Weather   Grow That Garden Library How They Decorated by P. Gaye Tapp and Charlotte Moss  This book came out in 2017, and the subtitle is Inspiration from Great Women of the Twentieth Century. "Interior designer and blogger P. Gaye Tapp recollects the lives and impeccably decorated homes of 16 iconic women in her upcoming book, How They Decorated: Inspiration From Great Women of the Twentieth Century." —New York Magazine "In How They Decorated: Inspiration from Great Women of the Twentieth Century, blogger P. Gaye Tapp casts her eyes on the decorating styles of iconic women like Babe Paley, Pauline de Rothschild, Mona Von Bismarck, and Elsa Schiaparelli. Whether these women employed top decorators or executed their homes on their own, the book provides great insights into lives fabulously lived." —Forbes.com "Covering these sixteen elegant women, she shows how they (most, of course, worked with decorators, architects, and designers) orchestrated rooms of great charm, individuality, and style. Tables are lavishly set, bedrooms invite lingering, fashions are paraded. And then, just when the lavish interiors are feeling rather intense, she introduces Georgia O'Keeffe (bold simplicity) and then Lesley Blanche, the ultimate romantic. It's a book to treasure. I love it." —The Style Saloniste Now, this is not a gardening book. But this book is 224 pages of gorgeous decorating and many feature botanicals and indoor gardening that add nature-inspired beauty to these incredible spaces. You can get a copy of How They Decorated by P. Gaye Tapp and Charlotte Moss and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $26.    Today'sBotanic Spark A few days ago, Andrea Brunsendorf of Longwood gardens wrote an excellent post about the little Studio Garden and the plants she used to create some of her gorgeous containers. I thought you would love to hear about it. Be sure to read Andrea's full post for more details on additional plants that she loves. If you especially enjoy hearing about plant styling and putting different combinations of plants together, you will particularly enjoy listening to Andrea's post. Here's an excerpt: "As Longwood's Director of Outdoor Landscapes, I am very fortunate that my office opens up to a little patio known as the Studio Garden. This 35-[square]-foot space... centers around a large elliptical concrete pad, surrounded by low stone walls to sit for lunch or lean one's bicycle against before or after it gets you around the gardens in the morning. This beautiful little space serves as a constant reminder that the physical action of gardening is good for us … not just for our bodies, but also for our mental well-being, as it gives our minds a respite. This morning…[as I wrote about my containers,] I was reminded of the basic human need for nurturing something like plants … and the simple pleasure that comes with it. In early June, once all the seasonal change-outs from spring to summer have taken place… you will find me squirreling around, collecting left-over plants to switch out the Studio Garden's seasonal containers from spring bulbs to summer annuals. This year… sparked the idea of creating a calm... interesting space to rest my eyes … and ... meet colleagues for a social-distancing lunch. The mantra I followed while gathering from the surplus plants was looking for green—one of the most diverse, versatile, and beautiful colors in the plant kingdom. I pulled back from intense flower colors and focused on the textures, structures, and foliage of plants by combining those based on harmony and contrast. I looked at the plant's character and habit, beyond their flower color, when assembling them in pots. I should mention that I tend to mass containers and pots together of the same neutral material and similar style but vary their sizes and shapes. For example, I utilize mass groupings of aged concrete containers and groupings of smaller terracotta pots to build my pot compositions in the Studio Garden. In my larger container in the Studio Garden, I have the beloved silver dollar gum (Eucalyptus cinereal) with a purple-leaved shrubby spurge, Caribbean copper-plant (Euphorbia cotinifolia)... [combined with} fine-textured pheasant tail grass (Anemanthele lessoniana). [This is a] grass that I miss so much from my gardening days in London, where of course, it is hardy; [but] here in Pennsylvania, in Zone 6b, we just must enjoy it during the warmer months before the extreme winter colds take it. Honestly, I am not sure how … the pheasant tail grass from New Zealand is going to weather the high humidity combined with summer's heat on my patio, but as gardeners, we should not be afraid to experiment. Trialing new plants, growing them in different conditions, or creating 'unusual' compositions are all worthy ventures. Sometimes a plant fails and doesn't thrive, or the impact of the intended design is not what we hoped for, but in the end, we have learned something, we have grown from that experience, and we have become more knowledgeable and skilled in our art and craft of gardening … all while enjoying that simple human pleasure of caring for plants."

For Lent, we are using the book, The Art of Lent: A Painting a Day From Ash Wednesday to Easter, by Sister Wendy Beckett. This week, the theme is Love. Our meditation for today is entitled, “Chasing the Butterfly,” and the focus of our attention will be on the painting, Chasing the Butterfly, c.1775-76, Thomas Gainsborough.

Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727-1788) was a life-long painter who loved creating magnificent landscapes but found they didn't sell well. Instead, he paid the bills with portraits until he started combining the two into unique portraits with idealistic landscapes in the background. This made him England's most famous portrait painter and the King and Queen's favorite artist. Full Show Notes: https://ridgelightranch.com/why-study-gainsborough-podcast-58/ 

Right about now you might be thinking about doing a little garden cleanup and preparation for fall.   One of the questions I get from gardeners this time of year has to do with whether or not to let some of your plants go to seed.   After spending most of the summer deadheading and illuminating all of the brown stuff on our foliage, it can be tough for some gardeners to let things go to seed.   But there are many benefits to letting some of the plants in your garden bolt in all their glory.   First of all, there is tremendous ornamental value that extends into winter if you allow your perennials to keep their seed heads. (Think of the seeds heads offered by cilantro, kale, arugula, basil and so forth).   Second, seeds offer food and habitat to native bees and other creatures.   Thirdly, saving seeds from the garden saves you money because it eliminates the need to buy seed for next year. (Think of your tomatoes and other edibles). This practice also allows you to keep heritage plants alive for future generations. That’s exactly how the heirlooms we know and love have been passed down through the generations. The main thing, is to allow nature to do most of the drying for you. Your seeds will have a much higher success rate if you let them dry as much as possible before you collect them.   And finally, allowing plants to go to seed means that you will have less to plant and subsequent seasons thanks to volunteer plants. Each year my garden is blessed with Queen Anne’s lace, Indian Paintbrush, Columbine, Forget-Me-Nots, Lettuce, Dill, Foxglove, Valerian, Lovage and Beets.  All planted by God; all perfectly placed and happy as a result. My volunteers find a way to utilize the tiniest nooks and crevices in my garden.       Brevities #OTD It’s the anniversary of the death of the landscape and portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough who died on this day in 1788. Gainsborough is known for his painting of the Blue Boy today. You can visit Gainsborough’s house in Suffolk. There is a garden there with a spectacular mulberry tree dating to the early 1600s during the reign of James I who encouraged the planting of mulberry trees in order to establish a silk industry.   The king and his advisers lacked the knowledge about Mulberry trees of which there are two kinds.   The white mulberry feeds silk worms and the black supplies the fruit. Gainsborough’s Mulberry (as well as every other Mulberry cultivated in England) was the black Mulberry.   Although England never successfully became known for silk worms, the craft of silk weaving became firmly rooted.   In addition to the large Mulberry, the Gainsborough garden includes two Beds for Herbs and another that is strictly devoted to plants used for dying fabric.   The rest of the garden is made up of plants that were available during Gainsborough's lifetime.     #OTD  Today in 1820 the first potatoes were planted in Hawaii.  Turns out the, the American brig, the Thaddeus, brought more than the first missionaries to the island brought.      #OTD On this day In 1938, the Belvedere Daily Republican, out of Belvedere Illinois, published a small article about a tree named for Benjamin Franklin. Here’s what it said: "About 200 years ago, John Bartram, an eminent botanist, discovered a strange flowering tree in a Georgia forest and named it "Franklinia" in honor of his fellow Philadelphian, Benjamin Franklin."       #OTD  It’s the anniversary of the death of the poet Wallace Stevens who died on this day in 1955. Stevens said, "Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful; which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers."   Stevens was one of the most skilled poets of the 20th Century he lived his entire adult life near Elizabeth Park in Hartford Connecticut.   By day, Stevens worked at Hartford insurance company where he became a Vice President and by night he was a poet; it was in an unusual combination.   Stevens lived 2 miles from his work and he walked to work every day; undoubtedly using the time to  find inspiration and to write poems.   The park across from his house was one of his favorite places. Elizabeth Park is huge; covering over 100 acres with formal gardens, meadows, lawns, green houses, and a pond. Stevens wrote the following poems About Elizabeth Park:   Vacancy in the Park   The Plain Sense of Things   Nuns Painting Water Lilies     By 1950, Stevens was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poetry.    And, here’s a little known fact about Wallace Stevens: He once started a fist-fight with Ernest Hemingway in Key West.          Unearthed Words  Today is the birthday of the  victorian poet William Watson who is born on this day in 1858.   Watson was overlooked two times for the role of poet laureate because he had included his political views about the government's policy regarding South Africa and Ireland into some of his poetry.   Late in his life, he was invited to write a poem to commemorate the Liverpool cathedral in 1924 to help raise money.  He did the job, but the church wasn’t thrilled that Watson had written about the squalid conditions of the cities population - which was in stark contrast to the Grand Cathedral.   Once Watson died, England embraced him. Rudyard Kipling said he was. "someone who had never written a bad line".    Here’s a poem by William Watson that gardeners will appreciate. It’s called simply Three Flowers: I made a little song about the rose  And sang it for the rose to hear, Nor ever marked until the music's close  A lily that was listening near. The red red rose flushed redder with delight,  And like a queen her head she raised. The white white lily blanched a paler white,  For anger that she was not praised. Turning I left the rose unto her pride,  The lily to her enviousness, And soon upon the grassy ground espied  A daisy all companionless. Doubtless no flattered flower is this, I deemed;  And not so graciously it grew As rose or lily: but methought it seemed  More thankful for the sun and dew. Dear love, my sweet small flower that grew'st among  The grass, from all the flowers apart,— Forgive me that I gave the rose my song,  Ere thou, the daisy, hadst my heart!     Today's book recommendation: The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside by Amanda Hesser   This award winning book  offers a lovely blend of cookbook along with garden stories that allow you to live vicariously with Hesser on a culinary school of estate in burgundy France.    Since the book is about traditional French gardening and cooking, it also captures the local customs and wisdom cultivated in provincial France.   Each chapter covers a month. The book can be read one season at a time, following along with the changes on the calendar and in the harvest.   Each season offers a recipe for stock.   The little stories about the gardener are delightful and there are wonderful tips that gardeners will appreciate appreciate. For instance, Amanda learned not to pick cabbages before a frost because the frost enhances the flavor. There’s a lovely recipe for pumpkin soup as well as all kinds of preserves.   This is my favorite kind of book because it’s part cookbook, part garden story, and part history.   Best of all, the tone is cozy-cozy,  charming,  and conversational.     Today's Garden Chore Propagate some slips of mint. Cut it with a sharp knife below a joint, take off leaves from the bottom 2-3 inches, and then put your cuttings in a glass filled with water for a week or so. It will take a week or two for the roots to form, but don't change the water. (Go ahead and add more if needed). This is one of the simplest ways to propagate mint, as well as other herbs.       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart   Just a quick heads up that tomorrow, August 3, is Garden Day at Longwood Gardens.   There is a keynote presentation from Matt Ross who is the Director of Continuing Education there. Matt will give two Keynote talks titled, "Go Green, Go White, Get Variegated" and another one called "Hidden Gems: the Best Gardens in America You’ve Never Heard Of." In addition, there will be nine breakout sessions to check out. So, if you live near Longwood, please go on my behalf and then tell me all about it.   Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

We talk to the researchers who uncovered the grisly murders in the family of the young Thomas Gainsborough. Plus, RoseLee Goldberg tells us all about her new book on performance art. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emily Knight talks at the Ashmolean Museum about eighteenth-century portraits of children. Throughout history we have attempted to capture the transience of childhood in images, whether through portraits painted in the eighteenth century or photos taken on a phone and shared on social media today. In this short talk Emily Knight takes us back to the eighteenth century, when artists including Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli and George Romney were painting children’s portraits. Ideas of childhood had begun to shift in the era, which was reflected in the portraiture. At the time infant mortality rates were high, meaning parents felt an even greater desire to have an image of their child to capture those fleeting early moments. Emily shows how these ideas were reflected in the portraiture through recurring motifs like the butterfly. Emily Knight is a DPhil candidate in History of Art at the University of Oxford researching posthumous portraiture in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries in Britain, considering the ways in which these works became a language for mourning and commemoration.

Die universitäre Medizin steht in vielfältigen sozialen Bezügen, die weit über die Innenperspektive von Klinik, Forschung und Lehre hinausweisen. Durch ihre tägliche Arbeit ist die universitäre Medizin Teil eines dichten Bezugssystems verschiedener Disziplinen. Dennoch finden sich in der Literatur wenige Analysen, die den Versuch unternehmen, die Kinderheilkunde innerhalb ihrer Bezugsfelder zur Architektur, Ökonomie, Geschichte oder Philosophie zu verorten. Die gegenwärtige Neukonstituierung der Pädiatrie an der LMU lädt dazu ein, sich der Grundlagen der Kinderheilkunde zu vergewissern und diese für die Zukunft der Disziplin fruchtbar zu machen. | Center for Advanced Studies: 06.05.2013 | Referent: Prof. Dr. Reinhold Baumstark | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci

With Mark Lawson. The film The Master is an impressionistic tale of an American war veteran who drifts into a cult led by a charismatic writer. Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to There Will Be Blood is partly inspired by the activities of novelist and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and the director even invited Scientologist Tom Cruise to a personal screening. Lionel Shriver, author of We Need To Talk About Kevin, delivers her verdict. Seduced By Art is the National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography. Recent photographs by Martin Parr hang next to a painting by Thomas Gainsborough from 1750, as the exhibition explores the relationship between historical painting, early photography and works created by photographers today. Photographer Jillian Edelstein and art critic William Feaver give their reaction. In a rare broadcast interview recorded in New York, composer Thomas Adès discusses his opera The Tempest, which he is currently conducting at Metropolitan Opera. He also reveals why he fled from a performance of Britten's Peter Grimes, and why he was unable to produce a score for a libretto written by James Fenton. And James Grant, film locations manager on Skyfall, talks about the most desirable movie locations world-wide, as Big Ben opens for filming. Producer Dymphna Flynn.

In 1975, Charles and Homozel Daniel purchased "Portrait of Lady Impey" from an auction house in New York City. They were told it was painted by the renowned 18th-century English portraitist Thomas Gainsborough. The Daniels bequeathed the painting to Furman and it was appraised, along with the rest of the White Oaks Collection, by Sotheby's in 1993. Without sending it to an expert in London, Sotheby's could not determine whether the portrait was painted by Thomas Gainsborough or by the artist's less revered nephew Gainsborough Dupont. Two years ago, the case was revisited when a descendant of Lady Impey contacted Furman. After researching the provenance of the painting, there is reason to believe that Furman's painting truly is a Gainsborough. In order to solve this mystery, the Decorative and Fine Arts Committee brought an internationally known Gainsborough scholar from England to Furman. Hugh Belsey, former Curator of Gainsborough's House and author of numerous books about Gainsborough, examined the Portrait of Lady Impey and revealed his findings at a public lecture on March 13. He also discussed the works of Thomas Gainsborough, particularly in his later years, as Furman's painting was created in 1786 near the end of Gainsborough's life.

Thomas Gainsborough had a deep love of music and many of his portraits include musical themes. He was himself a keen amateur player of the gamba and he had many musicians as friends, and feautured them as subjects for his portraits. Catherine Bott meets art historian and author of several books on the artist, Michael Rosenthal of Warwick University, for an exploration of what the Gainsborough portraits tell us about the role of music in the late 18th Century. The programme includes comment about Gainsborough's portraits of Karl Friedrich Abel; Johann Christian Bach; and the Linley family, as well as paintings of some notable amateurs from the English gentry such as William Wollaston and the redoubtable Anne Ford.

Donald Macleod introduces music and stories from the life of Johann Christian Bach, these days best known as the younget son of JS Bach, but in his day, the most famous Bach of all. Following JC Bach as he veers away from a typically Bach career as a provincial organist, and heads instead to Italy, and opera. Covering his move to London, his friendships with Carl Abel, Thomas Gainsborough and the eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and his decline.

In ARCA's first podcast, director Noah Charney, takes us on a journey through the criminal underworld of the 19th century and beyond. Beginning with the sale of the portrait of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire (portrayed by Keira Knightley in the 2008 film The Duchess) by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787, and introducing an intriguing cast of characters from a robber baron to the first private eye to even the man whom many consider to be the most successful criminal of all time, this podcast is not to be missed! Download the podcast here.

Australian printmaker, designer, painter and teacher Thea Proctor (1879–1966) was significant in Lambert’s life as a friend, colleague and model. She studied with Julian Ashton in Sydney where Lambert was a fellow student. Chaperoned by her mother, she arrived in England in the summer of 1903 and sat for Lambert during the autumn in his studio flat at Lansdowne House, Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, London (AGNSWQ 1962). For this portrait Proctor wore her customary summer outfit for 1903, a softly flowing dark-blue-purple polka-dot dress, the pouched front a special feature of the time, together with a wide-brimmed hat. Throughout her life, Proctor presented herself as a woman who was aware of what was stylish, while adapting current trends to her own highly personal sense of elegance. Lambert arranged his twenty-three-year-old sitter with an imaginary landscape behind her in the manner of earlier artists such as Thomas Gainsborough. He also worked in the tradition of the prominent society portrait painter, Charles Furse, who created a vogue for airy outdoor portraits. Like Furse, Lambert used fluid paint and superimposed dark shapes against light. He gave Proctor a sophisticated elegance by elongating her neck, torso and limbs. In his modelling of paint he suggested the tactile sensuousness of the skin and fabric he depicted. The languorous, rhythmical forms are in harmony with the rounded shapes of Proctor’s face and the sleeves of her dress. In the landscape behind Proctor Lambert depicted two hounds pursuing a white stag or a unicorn (a fabled creature symbolic of virginity). This small detail provides two possible, divergent, interpretations of the painting. If it is a stag, this could refer to the Greek myth of Artemis, goddess of abundance, fertility, hunting and longevity, who was furious when she discovered the mortal hunter Acteon watching her naked. As a punishment, she turned him into a stag and set his hounds upon him to tear him apart. If the animal is a unicorn it could refer to the maiden in the Hunt of the unicorn tapestries (The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), who tames the unicorn with her charms after huntsmen and hounds pursue the animal and bring it to bay. In painting this portrait Lambert may also have been influenced by two (or three) remarkable works that he saw in the National Gallery when he first arrived in London: Rubens’s Le chapeau de paille c.1625 and Hogarth’s The shrimp girl c.1745. At this time Lambert suggested that Hogarth’s painting ‘fairly carried [him] off his feet’ (ML MSS A1811, pp.55–6). In his treatise, The analysis of beauty , Hogarth recommended the essence of beauty lies in the ‘line of grace’, or ‘line of beauty’, against the straight lines of academic classicism. This florid, ‘serpentine line’, was the fluid aesthetic that Lambert adopted at this time, and especially in this portrait. Like Rubens, Lambert painted his subject in a pose of modesty with a sideways glance. But unlike that of Susannah Fourment (Rubens’s subject in Le chapeau de paille ), Proctor’s bosom is not openly displayed, but fully clothed, perhaps to reinforce this modesty. Lambert was not by any means the first to refer to Rubens’s painting in his own, and he may also have been referencing the work of the most famous female painter of the eighteenth century, Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun, and her Self-portrait in a straw hat c.1782 (National Gallery, London), painted in free imitation of Rubens’s work. This was the first painting which Lambert exhibited at the Royal Academy (in 1904), where it was prominently hung. For many years it remained in the possession of the Lamberts. Amy Lambert gave it to the sitter in 1946.