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The portrait of Romanian Countess Anna de Noailles, Princess Bassaraba Brancovan is one of the iconic paintings of the 20th century by the Basque painter Ignacio Zuloaga.
Anna de NoaIles biography is the object of a new Anthology published as an E-Book under the title:
"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN
Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)
DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card
COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)
LINK: www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html
CONTENTS:
2,250,000 words,
over 1,000 pages,
ca 160 illustrations in text
160 critical biographies,
58 social categories/professions,
600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),
circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)
6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place
index and name index)
AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.
INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status
Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)
NOTE:
Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.
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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)
AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu
BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur
CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza
DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu
EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün
FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida
GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza
HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin
II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian
JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj
KK *Mite Kremnitz
LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu
MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci
NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac
OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea
PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu
RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco
SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck
TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini
UU *Viorica Ursuleac
VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu
WW *Sabina Wurmbrand
ZZ *Virginia Zeani
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
― Samuel Beckett
seen this today morning while going to office. Didn't had my DSLR with me. hence captured with mobile resulted lower quality.
Richmond Park in south-west London was created by Charles I in the 17th century as a deer park. The largest of London's Royal Parks, it is of national and international importance for wildlife conservation. The park is a national nature reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation and is included, at Grade I, on Historic England's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. Its landscapes have inspired many famous artists and it has been a location for several films and TV series.
Richmond Park includes many buildings of architectural or historic interest. The Grade I-listed White Lodge was formerly a royal residence and is now home to the Royal Ballet School. The park's boundary walls and ten other buildings are listed at Grade II, including Pembroke Lodge, the home of 19th-century British Prime Minister Lord John Russell and his grandson, the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Historically the preserve of the monarch, the park is now open for all to use and includes a golf course and other facilities for sport and recreation. It played an important role in both world wars and in the 1948 and 2012 Olympics.
The Philosopher III
Over the clouds she recognizes:
This is my Head
HKD
Der Philosoph auf dem Gipfel
Mit seiner Trophäe über den Wolken angekommen
erkennt er: Das ist mein eigener Kopf.
HKD
Die Beute des Philosophen ist sein eigenes Ego.
Er könnte auch ausrufen: Tat tvam asi
Der Gipfel der Selbstkonfrontation und der Selbsterkenntnis zeigt gleichzeitig, wie unbewusst das naive Ego-Bewusstsein ist und war.
Ich weiß, dass ich nichts wusste. Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß.
(Frei nach Sokrates :-))
HKD
I met him at the Bluebird coffeeshop in Amsterdam and he immediately begin to talk to me about the meaning of love and 'god' money in the world and so on...
It has been a brief encounter with a really interesting person who surely is going to remain in my mind for a long time yet.....
Sometimes the smallest things
take up the most room in your heart.
(These words were spoken by that well-known philosopher, Winnie the Pooh.)
The Pesquet's Parrot is a highly specialised frugivore, feeding almost exclusively on a few species of figs. Flowers and nectar have also been reported. At least in parts of its range, it is seasonally nomadic in response to the availability of fruits. The bare part of the head is presumably an adaption to avoid feather-matting from sticky fruits. Little is known about its breeding habits in the wild, but the two eggs are laid in a nest in a large, hollow tree. It is typically seen in pairs or groups up to 20 individuals. In flight it alternates between rapid flapping and short glides.
~ Wikipedia
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) - Le trouble du philosophe [The philosophers trouble] aka Le repos du philosophe or Mannequins on the seashore (1922). In the collection of the Museo del Novecento, Milan.
I used the drone to light this old tower built sometime in the 17 hundreds by the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. Another great night out with Paul.
... on the "School of Athens" fresco.
Diogenes (412-323 BC) was a Greek philosopher and an early pioneer of Cynic philosophy. He was a controversial figure and both espoused and followed the Cynic ideal of living a simple basic life of natural virtue, free from all unnecessary possessions. He was said to have lived almost like a beggar, sleeping and eating wherever he chose; he committed obscene acts in public.
Diogenes courted controversy and had open disputes with the great men of his day; mocking Alexander the Great in public and criticizing Plato and even disrupted his lectures. Raphael's depiction reflects this; he is poorly dressed and is set apart and isolated from the other figures.
Stanza della Segnatura, Musei Vaticani; July 2019
"Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage."
~ Arie de Gues
Strobist: AB1600 with 60X30 gridded softbox camera right. AB800 with Softlighter II camera left. AB800 open behind backdrop of white faux suede. Triggered by Cybersync.
Diffracted sunlight grazing the surface of a pebble rock made from the mineral serpentine from Lizard Point, Cornwall, UK.
For the 114 in 2014 Group - #109 Illustrate a children's book title
I chose the first Harry Potter book, as it is written for children around the 11 years mark.
One of the most memorable sequences is the game of chess, when Ron Weasley rides the knight to victory.
I couldn't get hold of a proper pair of HP specs - so I raided my optician for the closest I could get! ;o)
Great fun was had in the making of this image ;o))
My 114 in 2014 set is here: Elisa 114 in 2014
~continued from here~
I was investigating some astronomical anomalies, when my servant knocked and announced that I had a visitor.
"Who is it at this hour?" I inquired, somewhat nonplussed at the interruption.
"It is a Philosopher, ma'am," he replied.
"Oh, bother! Show him in."
The man who strode into the room was tall and dark, with the long beard habitual to his vocation. Something stirred in my memory... "I know you!" I exclaimed.
He bowed and replied, "I had the pleasure of meeting you 400 years ago, Madame."
"Ahhhhhh! The one with the angel, who wanted a trade. Yes, yes! and what brings you again, pray tell?" I sensed prevarication in the way he drew back the corners of his mouth. He was trying to withhold something from me, but his excitement betrayed his thoughts. I saw... something broken, blood, feathers... he winced as I drew the images from his mind. He'd gotten stronger in the centuries since his last visit, and his head was crammed full of memories, but it was as easy as plucking blackberries to pick up his juicy secrets.
"That's damn rude!" he exclaimed, and I laughed and ran my fingers over my armillary, delighting in its intricate structure.
"So, you have something and believe that I want it enough to trade for it," I said, "Feeling your mortality creep up on you?" He shivered, suddenly cold. I wasn't bothering to contain my emotional aura, and it had a way of affecting mortals who wandered into its influence. "400 years wasn't long enough for you? Still haven't turned lead into gold?" I chortled, just to needle him. He frowned and crossed his arms over his chest, widening his stance as if he could brace himself against my barbs.
"It goes by quickly," he said, nonchalantly.
"One always needs more time..." I turned my hourglass over and watched the sand trickle through. "You have an angel, another of Jehovah's castoffs, and you wish to trade it for some of my blood. But there is something else..."
He pressed his hands to his head as I reached deeper, trammeling and tunneling through his memories. There was something more than greed for immortality underlying his request. It shadowed all of his thoughts with a different kind of longing. I saw a golden balance - what was it weighing? On one side, the years of life I could give him, the gift of time. On the other side... I saw the angel. She was beautiful, as angels are, rather feminine, even though angels, not having to breed, are unlike humans. I sensed pity weighing down her side of the equation.
"Poor, poor Alchemist, you've fallen in love! All your logic, your dispassionate rationality, deserts you at the glimpse of a pretty angel," I smiled wickedly. "So, you give her to me, and gain more time for your research, or you keep her and wither, and die and turn to dust. Hmmm, choices, choices..."
He looked extremely troubled. There was something else there. If he loved the angel and wanted to keep her, why had he come? There was something deep in his subconscious that he was barely aware of. It slipped through his mind like an immense, shadowy leviathan. I drove deeper, and he screamed in agony. Just before he slipped into unconsciousness, I caught a glimpse of what it was.
I needed backup.
I rang the bell for my servant, who came in immediately, glancing unsurprised at the slumped figure on the floor.
"Call Hell," I ordered, "Get Dingo up here, and don't listen to any of his excuses about smelly elevators and the queues of Damned politicians he needs to torture. And call Cerdwin, Nigel and Keeran! I need as many of them here as possible. We have caught a VERY LARGE FISH."
I saw this painted stone today on my way back home
Hi dear Flickr friends!!
I am writing to you from the Internet shop because my PC is not working :-(
This means I will not be on Flickr for some days and can also not comment.
When I am back I will try to catch up all your beautiful pics!
Have a good time ...so long!
Claudia
Historische und zeitgenössische Minifig-Philosophen. | Historical and contemporary minifig-philosophers.
Black lava less than 3 days old contrasts against the first snow that has fallen on the upper slopes of Etna. In the background, the broad cone formed during the 2002-2003 eruption sits silently, its flanks skirted by the lava of the latest episode of lava fountaining (paroxysm) from the New Southeast Crater, which is out of this picture to the left. The flat ground to the left of the 2002-2003 cone was once the site of a building called "Torre del Filosofo" (the philosopher's tower); the building was buried by the fallout of the 2002-2003 eruption, leaving only the antenna on the roof poking out. However, tourists were brought to the site until a few weeks ago. Then, on 26 October 2013, Etna started to claim the terrain back, and lava from the New Southeast Crater buried a large portion of the site still called "Torre del Filosofo". The next paroxysm, on 11 November 2013, covered all that remained of the site, and the lower portion of the northern slope of the 2002-2003 cone. Finally, also the antenna of "Torre del Filosofo" vanished under the lava - the last symbol of what once was the presumptuous idea of bringing a sort of "civilzation" right to the very mouths of one of the most active volcanoes on Earth.
Photo taken during fieldwork with my colleagues of the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo on 14 November 2013