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A stone dancer representing Champa culture from central Vietnam . The Cham flourished from the 2nd to 15th centuries in and around present day Danang . They adopted Hinduism , employed Sanskrit as a sacred language and borrowed heavily from Indian art . The Cham constitute only 3% of Vietnams ethnic minority peoples today .
Brisbane
The frieze in the foreground was designed and created the American artist Benjamin West, the same artist whose paintings adorn the Royal Chapel.
An HDR composition
Here’s another in my occasional series on books and book things – this time celebrating the joy of listening to classical music in the 1950s.
I first encountered the author, Martyn Goff, when I was a 14-year-old schoolboy. He owned The Ibis Bookshop in Banstead High Street, Surrey, which I visited from time to time.
To me, Goff was already a bit of a celebrity, thanks to this book – A Short Guide to Long Play which he displayed in the shop window in 1957. And inside, he had a record player on which he always played soothing classical music. The sub-title of the book is ‘How to listen to Music on and off the Record’, and the price is 7s 6d.
While in Banstead, Martyn Goff was to become much more of a celebrity when he published several novels, including The Plaster Fabric and The Youngest Director, dealing with homosexual relations, a matter barely spoken of in the 1950s when such activities were illegal and ‘permissiveness’ was 20 years away.
But back to the book in question here. It reads like a long lecture, but in the nicest sense, with lots of amusing asides. Martyn Goff discusses the differences between listening to long-playing records (remember them?) on a ‘Hi-Fi set-up, a ‘pre-war radiogram’ and an ‘E.A.R. portable, electric, 3-speed gramophone’. ‘When I bought mine’ he recalls, ‘the cost was 26 guineas. Purchase Tax increases have raised this figure to 28½ guineas and at the present rate of rising costs, it may be double that figure by the time these words are read.’ Sounds familiar…?
The book is a time-warp, but Goff also discusses in some detail the symphony, the overture, popular composers and many other subjects, all crammed into 125 pages. It’s knowledgeable stuff.
In due course Martyn Goff CBE became not only a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, but also chairman of the National Book League, Administrator of the Booker Prize (a position he held for 36 years) and chairman of Sotheran’s, Europe’s oldest antique and rare book dealer founded in 1761. The bookseller from Banstead became known as ‘the eminence grise of British publishing’ – and his rise and rise to the top of the literary tree all started in my home town.
♦ While you’re here… I have two Galleries that might interest you: a Bookshops gallery and a Public Libraries gallery. Happy browsing!
The Clewiston Inn (also known as The Inn) is a historic site in Clewiston, Florida, United States. It is located at U.S. 27, west of the junction with CR 832, and is the oldest hotel in the area of Lake Okeechobee. On February 21, 1991, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Clewiston Inn was originally built along the unprotected waterfront of Lake Okeechobee in 1926 by the Clewiston Company, the community and real estate development arm of Bror Dahlberg's Southern Sugar Company. Ownership passed to the United States Sugar Corporation in 1931 when Charles Stewart Mott formed the company and acquired the assets of the Southern Sugar Company, which went into bankruptcy in 1929. The building survived the great 1926 and 1928 hurricanes but was destroyed by a fire in 1937 and the classical revival style structure was rebuilt in 1938. The Everglades Lounge and Bar inside has a 360-degree wildlife mural featuring the flora and fauna of the Florida Everglades. It was created in the early 1940s by the J. Clinton Shepherd (1888-1975). This Palm Beach artist stayed at the Inn for many months, making frequent trips to the Everglades to sketch the animals.
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Fissure is up at Classically kinky in 4 colors, coming with Belleza, Maitreya, Slink, and Lolas appliers!
Ellen (9) is one of my piano pupils, and wanted a blue house with a Classical interior (her words!!). Walls decorated with 5p coins and a button.
The Chjimes Singapore May 2008
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A classically styled toll-house in Moretonhampstead complete with toll-board. Recorded as the 'Eastern Turnpike House' in the town in the Census returns of 1841 (Jenkinson and Taylor 2009).
Roads were improved everywhere during the 1700s, partly because of greater efforts by the parishes responsible but mainly because of the formation of "Turnpike Trusts". These were authorised by Acts of Parliament and could charge tolls for the building and upkeep of roads in their care. Toll-houses, small cottages with substantial toll-gates across the main road, were strategically placed at intervals along the main road; old toll-houses can still often be recognised by their strategic position looking out in both directions, with a blank window space where the list of charges was displayed.
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Greek sculpture (450 - 330 BC)
Roman and Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, and sponsor of arts, trade and strategy.
The Louvre
Paris, France
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The “perched” villages of Provence, built from local stone and full of character and the Provençal culture, history and way of life.
Koersbord van 'Classical Tour Diesellocs 2400' op de koppeling van de mBDk 126 tijdens een stop te Geldermalsen, zaterdag 21 september 1991. De afscheidsrit werd gereden onder de naam 'Klassical Tour 2400', alleen op het koersbord stond het met een 'C' geschreven.
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, 22 Oct 2024
The ancient Greeks painted their sculptures bright colours and adorned then with metal jewellery.
Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century CE, tells us that statues were coloured and polished.
But it was not until the late nineteenth century that excavations in the Acropolis in Athens found several statues on which colour could still be seen. The Peplos Kore is one of these. Before this, fashion dictated that new finds were whisked to the restorer’s studio where they were scrubbed of any paint traces.
Here the Kore is shown (left) as she is today, and (right) fully restored. So little paint remains on the original that the restored version is an “artist’s impression”. Recent scientific analysis shows that her paintwork was even more elaborate.
The little umbrella on her head is called a “meniskos” and was to keep the weather and birds off.
She dates to around 530 BCE.
Olympus M. Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f/1.8
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