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Painted this cello earlier in the year, for the Cheltenham Festival. Tried to get some sense of the swirl of string music into this.
Colors:
Off (S: M: L)
Generation (S: M: L)
Aquamarine ( S：M：L S: M: L ） )
Chocolat ( S：M：L S: M: L ） )
Black (S: M: L)
Materials:
100% cotton (cotton broadcloth)
S: Length 51.2cm (including partial skirt)
Sleeve length 61cm (including part of the race)
Chest 90cm / Waist 70 cm
Shoulder width 35cm
Length 52.2cm (including partial skirt)
Sleeve length 62cm (including part of the race)
Chest 94cm / Waist 74 cm
Shoulder width 36cm
L: Length 53.2cm (including partial skirt)
Sleeve length 63cm (including part of the race)
Chest 98cm / Waist 78 cm
Shoulder width 37cm
Color:
Black,
Pail Pink,
Navy,
Ivory Dots
Outer material:
100% cotton
100% cotton
100% polyester lining
Dot tulle
Blade
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Size:
Length:
52cm (to waist belt attaching position ~ hem frill edge)
48cm (to waist belt attaching position ~ itself hem blade edge)
66cm waist
(External size / adjustable ribbon belt slightly)
Waist belt width 3cm
Hem around 280cm (located on main blade)
※The waist ribbon belt you can attach and remove
※ For details of the size!
Note: The picture has worn 2 A line organdie panniers.
Had little time off today from mommy duties..I was able to finally take pictures of my Classical Alice Pullip. Bought her last February 10, 2014. 2years ago ♥ I removed her from her box with her board backing still attached to take nice pictures....I still could not muster the courage to really removed her from her box and play her....what do you think? She is sooOoOOoo Pretty & Photogenic!
The girl... For me she is the model of an italian painter of Rinascimento... I tried to reflext this (without filter during the treatment)...
2nd oil painting. This is stage one of quite a few layers. This stage is still in development. I had to stop after four hours. We'll see how it goes.
Sedgie in Finland - at the wonderful Sibelius memorial in Helsinki.
Many more images of this spectacular bear on his travels can be seen here!
Aspects of Classical Design:
*Uses a focal point around which visual balance is achieved
*Symmetry
*Colors are often inspired by nature; blues, browns, greens, terracottas
*Classical ornamentation; Roman and *Greek inspired columns, busts, and urns
*Use natural flooring of wood, stone or marble
*Fabrics; cotton, canvas, velvet
**Photo from interior-design-tutor.net
Boston pianists Marc-André Hamelin and Mihae Lee observe piano technician John von Rohr working his magic
Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra perform in Classical Showcase at the Dock Street Theatre during the 2019 season of Spoleto Festival USA
Teatro Colon (2,847 seats), Buenos Aires, completed in 1908 after two decades under construction, it has attracted since the biggest names in opera from Caruso and Toscanini to Callas, Pavaroti, and Domingo.
Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby. The medieval village of Kedleston was moved in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon to make way for the manor.[2] All that remains of the original village is the 12th century All Saints Church, Kedleston.[3]
Background
The current house was commissioned in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon and designed by Robert Adam.[4]
The Curzon family, whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy, have been in Kedleston since at least 1297, and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.
At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam, was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with his designs that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.
On the death of Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale in 1977, expenses compelled the heir, his cousin (Francis Curzon), to transfer the property to the care of the National Trust.[5]
Exterior
Kedleston Hall was Brettingham's opportunity to prove himself capable of designing a house to rival Holkham Hall. The opportunity was taken from him by Robert Adam who completed the North front (above) much as Brettingham designed it, but with a more dramatic portico.
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The design of the three-floored house is of three blocks linked by two segmentally curved corridors. The ground floor is rusticated, while the upper floors are of smooth-dressed stone. The central, corps de logis, the largest block, contains the state rooms and was intended only for formal entertaining. The East block was a self-contained country house in its own right, containing all the rooms for the family's private use, and the identical West block contained the kitchens and all other domestic rooms and staff accommodation.
Plans for two more pavilions (as the two smaller blocks are known), of identical size and similar appearance, were never executed. These further wings were intended to contain, in the south-east a music room, and in the southwest a conservatory and chapel. Externally these latter pavilions would have differed from their northern counterparts by large glazed Serlian windows on the piano nobile of their southern facades. Here the blocks were to appear as of two floors only; a mezzanine was to have been disguised in the north of the music room block. The linking galleries here were also to contain larger windows, than on the north, and niches containing classical statuary.
The north front, approximately 117 yards [107 m] in length, is Palladian in character, dominated by a massive, six-columned Corinthian portico; however, the south front (illustrated right) is pure neoclassical Robert Adam. This garden facade is divided into three distinct sets of bays; the central section is a four-columned, blind triumphal arch (based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome) containing one large, pedimented glass door reached from the rusticated ground floor by an external, curved double staircase. Above the door, at second-floor height, are stone garlands and medallions in relief.
The four Corinthian columns are topped by classical statues. This whole centre section of the facade is crowned by a low dome visible only from a distance. Flanking the central section are two identical wings on three floors, each three windows wide, the windows of the first-floor piano nobile being the tallest. Adam's design for this facade contains huge "movement" and has a delicate almost fragile quality.
Hall
Marble Hall 1763, decoration completed in 1776-7
Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one is confronted by the marble hall. Nikolaus Pevsner describes this as one of the most magnificent apartments of the 18th century in England.[6] It measures 67 feet (20 m) by 37 feet (11 m) in plan and is 40 feet (12 m) high.
Twenty fluted pink Nottingham alabaster columns with Corinthian capitals support the heavily decorated, high-coved cornice. Niches in the walls contain casts of classical statuary by Matthew Brettingham the Younger and others;[6] above the niches are grisaille panels of Homeric subjects inspired by Palladio's illustration of the Temple of Mars. The stucco in the ceiling was created by Joseph Rose in the 1770s.[6]
The floor is of inlaid Italian marble. Matthew Paine's original designs for this room intended for it to be lit by conventional windows at the northern end, but Adam, warming to the Roman theme, did away with the distracting windows and lit the whole from the roof through innovative glass skylight.
The overmantels to the fireplaces are by Joseph Rose with firebaskets by Robert Adam.[6]
At Kedleston, the hall symbolises the atrium of the Roman villa and the adjoining saloon the vestibulum.
Saloon
The saloon
The saloon, contained behind the triumphal arch of the south front, like the marble hall rises the full height of the house, 62 feet (19 m) to the top of the dome, where it too is sky-lit through a glass oculus. Designed as a sculpture gallery, this circular room 42 feet (13 m) in width was completed in 1763.
The decorative theme is based on the temples of the Roman Forum with more modern inventions: in the four massive, apse-like recesses are stoves disguised as pedestals for classical urns.[1] The paintings of ruins are by Gavin Hamilton and the grisaille panels have scenes of British worthies painted by John Biagio Rebecca.[6]
The four sets of double doors giving entry to the room have heavy pediments supported by scagliola columns, and at second-floor height, grisaille panels depict classical themes.
From the saloon, the atmosphere of the 18th-century Grand Tour is continued throughout the remainder of the principal reception rooms of the piano nobile, though on a slightly more modest scale.
State bedroom
The "principal apartment", or State bedroom suite, contains fine furniture and paintings.
The state bed was constructed by James Gravenor of Derby.[7] The state bed posts are carved to represent palm tree trunks which soar up and break into flamboyant foliage at the top, sweeping in palm-fronds behind.[8]
Drawing room
Settee by John Linnell in the Drawing Room dated from around 1765.
The drawing room with huge alabaster Venetian window is 44 feet (13 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m). The doorcase is also alabaster. The fireplace with a scene of virtue rewarded by honour and riches is flanked by large female figures sculpted by Michael Henry Spang.[6] The gilt sofas by John Linnell date from around 1765.[9] They were commissioned by the 1st Baron Scarsdale and supplied, together with a second pair of sofas to Kedleston in 1765.
Dining room
The dining room
The dining room, with its gigantic apse, has a ceiling that Adam based on the Domus Augustana in the Farnese Gardens. The apse contains curved tables designed by Adam in 1762[6] and a giant wine cooler. The ceiling contains panel paintings of the continents by Antonio Zucchi, the seasons by Gavin Hamilton and the centre is by George Morland. The original wall panels are by Francesco Zuccarelli, Frans Snyders, Claude and Giovanni Francesco Romanelli.
Music Room
The Music Room has Ionic doorcases and delicate plaster ceiling designed by Adam. The marble chimneypiece is inlaid with Blue John. The pipe organ was second hand by John Snetzler with the case designed by Robert Adam and built by Robert Gravenor.[10] A second manual with Hautboy was added in 1824 by Alexander Buckingham.[11] The organ was restored in 1993 by Dominic Gwynn.
Library
The Library
The library contains a Roman doric doorcase leading to the Saloon. The bookcases were designed by Robert Adam[6] and built by James Gravenor of Derby.[12] The plaster ceiling is divided into octagonal patterns. The library desk was built in 1764 by James Gravenor. Wikipedia
First pullip. Expect lots of Alice pictures! She quickly became one if my favorite dolls, and one of my favorite dolls to photograph. I got her from PullipStyle.com with a dent box, as I didn't care for the box, only Alice and her accessories, and I was planning to take her out of packaging from the start so I saved a couple of dollars there(even though it took me 5 minutes to find such dent that I hardly think of it as one. Such a non-problem being taken into consideration by the retailer really shows the high quality of service from PullipStyle).
Over-all review of Alice: She's mine hands off! Kidding aside lovely, and looks a lot like the drawings of Alice in Through The Looking-Glass, with a bit of pimped up attributes here and there making her a one of a kind variation. The wig has a good scent to it, so it won't get a foul odor on the clothing and accessories. It has no bald spots and you can't see the seams of the wig unless you push the hair over. It is a nice thin(dimensions matter!), polyester I believe, hair, with quite minute frizzing. Almost none, but making the hair look more natural. Her curls are not stiff, and incredibly soft. The company(Groove) used a very very high quality spray, that can't be noticed practically at all when touching the hair, to help keep the curls in their designated design. The curls are easily fixed with only moist fingers. Great doll, but very delicate. I've never been more careful with a doll than Alice.
Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden celebrated the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with a public day of activities and festivities on September 30th.
This garden was ranked in 2011 by National Geographic as "top city garden" in the world.
This wonderful guy was busking just by ours the other day he was very entertaining.
He knew 99.9 % of his notes, but when he hit one of the 0.1% he had the wonderful gift of raising one eyebrow, absolute hilarity. Well worth a quid!
Classical Roman colonnade.
Taken in the Parc Monceau.
The park was created by Phillippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres, with land purchased in 1769, and made a public park in 1778. Parc Monceau was designed by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (1717-1806) as an 'English Garden'.
Despite his supporting the French Revolution, Phillippe d'Orléans was guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror.
Taken in the 8e Arrondissement