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Connor about Hudson, "Okay you're mine".
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Armida, ca.1650 by Francesco Montelatici, known as Cecco Bravo (Italian, 1607--1661)
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Tin-based ceramics (ceràmica estannífera) is a decorative technique which revolutionized tile production from the Middle Ages on, and specially during the 16th and 17th centuries. Its name comes from the use of stannic oxide in the glaze, which gives the pieces their characteristic opaque white background, perfect to apply bright colour decorations on it. This type of ceramics allowed a great richness of colours and detail. On the white surface, they used to paint religious, vegetal, heraldic or geometric motifs with lively colourful enamel. They were used in altar antependiums, balustrades, fountains, paviments and walls. The tiles don't only serve a decorative function, they're also hygienic and symbolic: they protect the walls and transmit spiritual or identity messages.
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Title: St. Casilda of Toledo Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598-1664) Date: ca. 1635 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Period: Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) Movement: Tenebrism Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 171 cm (67.3 in) high x 107 cm (42.1 in) wide Location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
St. Casilda was the daughter of Yahya ibn-Ismail al-Mamun, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Toledo from 1043 to 1075. According to tradition, she smuggled food to maltreated Christian captives of her father. On one occasion, she was stopped and searched, only for the hidden bread to transform into roses; it is this moment that Zurbarán chose to depict. After being healed of an illness at the shrine of San Vicente, Casilda converted to Christianity and became a penitential hermit.
Francisco de Zurbarán, one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age, was dubbed "the Spanish Caravaggio" for his careful use of chiaroscuro, influenced by the great Italian master. He excelled both in religious art and in the still life (bodegon).
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A couple of atypically colorful logbook pages from the Bengal of Salem, Massachusetts, housed at the Providence Public Library. The ship sailed around the Pacific Ocean from 1832 to 1835 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Source: smithsonianmag.com
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Gillian Anderson in War and Peace (2016)
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