Editor of the magazine “The new guide” and director of “The quarterly magazine”, Albert Verwey founded and directed “The movement”, the creative container that fueled the new post-symbolist trends. He also taught at the University of Leiden. As contemplative poet, he has given us amazing pages, picking up his literary inspiration in timeless books: “Land” in 1896, “The Way of …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum: Wheatfield with Crows, by Vincent Van Gogh
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. 900 paintings and more than a thousand drawings, a misunderstood genius in life and a profound influence in the art of the …
Read More »THROUGH AN OPEND DOOR OR WINDOW – The domestic wonderful world of Pieter De Hooch
PIETER DE HOOCH 1/3 – He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer, and was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. There is no document to prove that De Hooch and Vermeer were friends or had any professorial relations, but the similarities between their paintings must imply that there …
Read More »PIETER DE HOOCH (1629/1684), DUTCH PAINTER – Figures in domestic setting, room or yard through an open door or window
AMERICAN POEMS – Langston Hughes
Yes, Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death.He received a scholarship to Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania). In 1923, he traveled to the Africa, visiting Senegal and Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo and Angola, and later visiting Europe (Italy and France, Russia and Spain). One of Hughes’ finest essays …
Read More »EYES OF THE DAY AFTER – Return from Haarlem, the Netherlands perceiving complex nuances, memories of a trip
DUTCH MUSIC – Sound shades of baroque, traditional and contemporary
Baroque Music from The Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-x3g0OIaJ0 Traditional Dutch Music – Dutch Windmills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxITYASgBI Dutch music top 40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49C5iDS-cs Choose a bench where you can publish what you have painted, what you have written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or the story of a journey that you have made. Past and Present are here and now. Our proposal …
Read More »THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO – Where lies have short and long nose
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio), is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Reading you can discover the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father (a poor woodcarver named Geppetto). http://www.collodi.com/la-fiaba-originale-di-pinocchio.asp http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m89uu That novel it has been adapted in over 240 languages worldwide, making it among the most translated and widely …
Read More »SPANISH MELODIES – A long history that played an main basis of most Latin American music
The Iberian peninsula, has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea and across Europe. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar (but while these forms of music are common in Spain, there are many different traditional music styles and dances across its regions). The jota is widespread …
Read More »THE OTHER ANDALUCIA – Seville: the colors of Velasquez and Murillo, together with the age-old cultural nuances that embrace the town of grace
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. This Spanish city of Andalusia – Seville – is known by a special name “the city of grace.” It is waiting for …
Read More »WHERE BRUSHSTROKE GROWS FLUID AND ENERGETIC – Bartolomè Esteban Murillo and the effects of lighting
BARTOLOME’ ESTEBAN MURILLO 1/3 – He was born into a family of artists, because its uncle (Antonio Pérez) was a painter, who was married to the daughter of another Sevillian artist (Vasco de Pereira). He was the most popular Baroque religious Spanish painter, and the rich colors and broad brushwork of his later paintings were influenced by 16-century Flemish painters. …
Read More »IN THE HISTORIC CENTER – Seville Palace House / Hotel Abanico
http://www.hotelabanico.com/ Enjoy your breakfast in the Andalusian Patio, and start the day with coffee or tea, cocoa or chocolate, assorted breads and pastries, using free Wi-Fi in the Patio Sevillano. Monumental free city visit? Enjoy a free guided tour of the main monuments of Seville,with departures from the hotel (every day at 10.00 h. / Duration 2.5 hours / Available …
Read More »BARTOLOME’ ESTEBAN MURILLO (1618/1682), SPANISH PAINTER – The admiration of Europe, unknown and less esteemed in his land
TABERNA EL PANDURO BANOS, SEVILLA – Spanish and Fusion, Mediterranean and Gluten Free
You love Sevilla? You know the excellent gastronomic experiences in this lovely city? Do not forget “Taberna El Panduro Banos” where you can find the best price-quality rapport of your town trip. Maybe you too have spent 30 euros (in two) amazed by the quality of the tapas you ordered: tuna tataki and salmon tartar. You too know the genuine …
Read More »MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / SEVILLE – Seville’s Cathedral: Descent from the Cross, by Pedro de Campaña
Welcome in Seville, where waiting for you something about Pedro de Campaña (Pieter de Kempeneer). He was born in Brussels and was trained in Italy, but he is known to have been employed in the Cathedral of Seville, where he received the order from the monastery of Santa Maria de Gracia for this Descent from the Cross. His style includes …
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