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Franz Schubert: Die Forelle & Ständchen, “Serenade”
View near Camonteign, Devon (detail), by John White Abbott (1764 – 1851), 1803 (Photo credit: Google images) Die Lieder In the nineteenth century, instrumental music came of age. It was, at long...
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Le Mal du siècle, 19th-Century France
The Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “This well-known and especially Romantic masterpiece was described by the historian John Lewis...
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Chateaubriand’s Atala
The Funeral of Atala, by Girodet, 1808 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) An “American” novella: Atala (1801) In 1791, François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, an impoverished aristocrat fleeing...
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Eugène Delacroix’s “Mandarin Drake”
A Mandarin Drake, by Eugène Delacroix (Photo credit: WikiArt.org) Eugène Delacroix (13 August 1863) is one of the most accomplished artists associated with Romanticism. He was also one of the most...
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Du bist die Ruh, Nacht und Träume, An die Musik
Du bist die Ruh; Nacht und Träume; An die Musik You are Peace; Night and Dreams; To Music Franz Schubert, composer Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, pianist Lieder trilogy Several pictures are...
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William Morris’ Red House
Philip Webb‘s Red House The above-featured Red House was co-designed by Philip Webb, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. In my post on Art in 19th-century England, I mentioned the Arts and Crafts...
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Blogger Recognition Award.2
https://bonjourberlin.com/2016/01/14/blogger-recognition-award/ Blogger Recognition Award.2 Once again, I would like to thank bonjourberlin.com for honouring me. Bonjour Berlin has fallen in love with...
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The Rosetta Stone, Obelisks & Delacroix
Fantasia arabe by Eugène Delacroix, 1833 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Women of Algiers by Eugène Delacroix, 1834 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Egyptology and Orientalisme The Rosetta Stone There was a period...
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