Meeting Benches World art in all forms
WILLIAM MULREADY (1786/1863), IRISH PAINTER – Romanticizing depictions in Victorian times
THE EVERYDAY SCENES FROM RURAL LIFE – William Mulready: from Ennis to the Royal Academy School
WILLIAM MULREADY 1/2 – Best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, he was an Irish genre painter. William Mulready (the pupil and brother-in-law of John Varley), he was born in Ennis, County Clare, but after six years its family moved to London, where he was accepted at the Royal Academy School. In 1802, he married Elizabeth (a landscape …
Read More »WAITING FOR CLONMACNOISE, IRELAND – Seven ruined churches and all the imaginable amazement
The Clonmacnoise monastic site, located on the banks of the River Shannon, and always conquers the heart of its visitors. Today, the site today consists of seven ruined churches and three high crosses, an cathedral and two round towers. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings targeted these settlements. An Irish bishop, was the founder of this place …
Read More »THE IRISH BALLAD – Tom Leher
Tom Lehrer– The Irish ballad > About a maid I’ll sing a song, sing rickety-tickety-tin, about a maid I’ll sing a song who didn’t have her family long, not only did she do them wrong, she did every one of them in, them in she did every one of them in. One morning in a fit of pique, sing rickety-tickety-tin, …
Read More »THE DRIVING IRISH FORCE – William Butler Yeats: my arms are like the twisted thorn
THE FISHERMAN, by William Butler Yeats > Although I can see him still, the freckled man who goes to a gray place on a hill, in gray Connemara clothes, at dawn to cast his flies. It’s long since I began to call up to the eyes, this wise and simple man. All day I’d looked in the face what I …
Read More »THE WILD IRISH GIRL – Romance, by Sidney Owenson
You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set in Ireland, pages where you can find wild landscapes and ruins. The story involves a young Englishman, a kind of prodigal son who is banished to his aristocratic father’s Irish estates. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns …
Read More »BENOZZO GOZZOLI /1421/1497), ITALIAN PAINTER – Not only the most fascinating fresco cycles of 15th-century Florence
THE MAN CALLED BENOZZO – Trained as a goldsmith, he will become painter
BENOZZO GOZZOLI 1/3 – Benozzo Gozzoli he was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive processions (in fresco-painting he used the methods of tempera), with fine attention to detail. The art of Gozzoli is pre-eminently attractive by its sense of what is rich, winning, lively and abundant in …
Read More »WITH THE EYES OF BENOZZO – A virtual trip that can become real, through the lands where the Italian Renaissance was born
The year 1420 (MCDXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, but someone special was born. Benozzo Gozzoli was born in 1420, near Florence (the city where they worked Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi and Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca), which is associated with the Guild of Painters. At age 18 he is in …
Read More »ROMAN LANDSCAPES – Stunning views of the city and poignant images of the Roman countryside
