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The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Sheffield using a halfpenny stamp on Wednesday the 3rd. August 1904. The card was sent to:
Miss F. Taylor,
112, Wills Street,
Lozells,
Birmingham.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Florries,
Auntie has sent you this
and asked me to write
for her.
Very pleased that you
are enjoying yourselves,
I only wish I was with you,
and I know we should be
alright.
Leslie was pleased with
P.P.C.
Auntie expects to get in
to New Street Station
somewhere about nine
o'clock, I suppose you
are coming to meet her.
Best love,
Elizabeth."
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield.
It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to the Cavendish family since 1549. Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, it looks across to the low hills between the Derwent and Wye valleys.
The house is set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland. It contains major collections of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts.
Chatsworth has been chosen several times as Great Britain's favourite country house.
Dolores del Rio
So what else happened on the day that Elizabeth posted the card?
Well, the 3rd. August 1904 marked the birth of Dolores del Río in Victoria de Durango, Durango, Mexico.
María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete, known professionally as Dolores del Río, was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood.
Along with a notable career in American cinema during the 1920's and 1930's, she was also considered one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and one of the most beautiful actresses of her era.
After being discovered in Mexico, Dolores began her film career in Hollywood in 1925. She had roles in a string of successful films, including Resurrection (1927), Ramona (1928) and Evangeline (1929). Del Río came to be considered a feminine version of Rudolph Valentino, a ‘female Latin Lover’, in her years during the American silent era.
With the advent of sound, Dolores acted in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to musical comedies and romantic dramas. Her most successful films of that decade include Bird of Paradise (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). In the early 1940's, when her Hollywood career began to decline, Del Río returned to Mexico and joined the Mexican film industry, which at that time was at its peak, during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema.
When Del Río returned to her native country, she became one of the more important stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. A series of Mexican films starring Del Rio are considered classic masterpieces which helped boost Mexican cinema worldwide. Of them stands out the critically acclaimed María Candelaria (1943).
Del Río remained active mainly in Mexican films throughout the 1950's. In 1960 she returned to Hollywood. During the following years she appeared in Mexican and American films. From the late 1950's until the early 1970's she also successfully ventured into theater in Mexico, and appeared in various American TV series.
Del Río is considered a quintessential representation of the female face of Mexico in the world.
In 1960 she was honored with a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
Maria died of liver failure in Newport Beach California on the 11th. April 1983 at the age of 78. she was laid to rest in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Mexico City. When asked for his autograph later in life, Vincent Price would often sign her name. When asked why, Price would say that he promised Dolores on her deathbed that he would do his best to keep her name alive.
-- A Final Thought From Dolores del Rio
[in the 1920's] "Hollywood, what a place it is!
It is so far away from the rest of the world,
so narrow. No one thinks of anything but
motion pictures or talks of anything else.
And, I, too, am getting like the rest. I have
not read anything for a year. I do not know
what is happening in the world."
An American Dirigible
Also on the 3rd. August 1904, the dirigible California Arrow, created and flown by Thomas Scott Baldwin and powered by a motorcycle engine built by Glenn Curtiss, became the first aircraft to complete a circuit in the United States.
Baldwin took off from Idora Park, Oakland, California, and circled over San Francisco Bay before returning to his starting point.
the rocket summer has a video out for "do you feel" and the entire video is people with writing on their hands...
i fell in love with the idea and we decided to dedicate an entire shoot towards it
Juliet McKenna (organiser of the event) discusses “Politics and Genre - fantasy conservatism vs SF radicals?” with David Moore, Ben Jeapes and Geoff Ryman.
Cover for April's newsletter of ideas and information associated with all things education, mined and curated for me and shared with you.
Juan Luna y Novicio (1857 - 1899)
Portrait of Irene della Rocca
signed, dated and inscribed "Alla S.ta / Irene Della Rocca / LVNA - Rome / 1884" (lower right)
oil on canvas
39” x 23 1/2” (99 cm x 60 cm)
Opening bid: Php: 12,000,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Italy.
WRITE UP
The ‘Spoliarium’ and The Italian Princess
Luna Portrait of Irene Della Rocca
It is well known that, as Juan Luna was finishing the “Spoliarium”, his masterpiece now at the National Museum, the rumor spread all over Rome that a new, but very exotic, Master from the Philippines was busy resurrecting the glorious art and culture of ancient Rome. Everybody was queuing at his workshop in via Margutta, and one day, end of 1883, as the painter was applying his last touches, he became aware of a loud disturbance behind him: King Umberto I and his wife, Queen Marguerita were there, accompanied by a group of courtiers, ready to admire the masterpiece which everybody was talking about. According to an article published by “The Sun”, an American newspaper, 9 years later, an American citizen who had been Luna’s roommate in Rome and who happened to be in this workshop that day, reported the scene: the painter apologizing for not being able to shake the royal hand offered to him, his own being covered with paint, and the enthusiasm of the royal couple discovering the painting.
One of the main courtiers of King Umberto I happened to be the General Enrico della Rocca, a senior aide-de-camp of the king since 1882, and descended from a marquis himself. It is therefore very likely that he was accompanying his master on that occasion. What better gift for his nieces Adele and Irene della Rocca, who were at a marriageable age and about to be launched in Society, than celebrating their beauty through the talent of that painter who had been the talk in town? Luna needed money more than ever, as the monthly allowance from his family was usually exhausted before the end of each month, and also because he had not been able to accept any work during the whole year, busy as he was with the monumental task of his Spoliarium. It has been reported that King Umberto, praising Luna’s work, proposed to buy it at a high price but Luna could not accept, because the Spoliarium was due to compete for a prize in Madrid, scheduled in July.
He had already got the silver medal in Madrid in 1881 for the Death of Cleopatra, and now longed for the gold. After rebuffing the king, albeit for good reasons, Luna could hardly reject as well such a prestigious and lucrative commission, emanating from one of the most prominent members of the Italian court.
These historical accounts allow us to determine a date for our portrait with even more precision than the date 1884 next to the signature of Luna. It is known that he left Rome for Madrid in April ’84, ready to participate to the fine art competition in which he was to receive indeed the gold medal in July. Therefore, the painting and that of the subject’s sister were necessarily executed in the very first months of the year.
An interesting comparison with these portraits is to be made with another work of Luna, representing two young and elegant girls at the balcony of an opera house, which we believe was executed in the same period. We indeed know through the telling of Luna’s roommate in The Sun, that Luna was commissioned for “various works” once he was through with the Spoliarium, including “for some European monarchs”.
Doing this painting must have been a pleasant moment for Luna, who had been busy since a year depicting the extreme violence of gladiators’ life in the Colosseum. For this portrait, recreational as it was, he dropped the dark palette of the Spoliarium for a paler one, powder blue dress, white flowers in order to enhance the virtue of this aristocratic girl in ceremonial attire, somewhat hieratic and official, a maiden in Majesty. But the need for colors takes over in details, like the intervention of red and purple in the white bouquet, and the movement of the beige background, treated in an almost impressionistic manner, a way Luna has often adopted in order to let the light animate his paintings and play behind its characters. Juan Luna, having studied so far in Spanish institutions, had not yet been deeply influenced by the impressionist movement emerging in France, but it is obvious that he had already been confronted by some works, be it for the simple reason that they were scandalizing the whole of Europe. As for the technique, the usual strong impasto scattered here and there, characteristic of our national painter’s manner in these years, adds depth and strength to the virginal and evanescent beauty.
Lot 119 of the Leon Gallery and The Asian Cultural Council Auction 2025 on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at the
G/F Eurovilla 1, Rufino corner Legazpi Street, Legazpi Village, Makati City, Philippines. Please see leon-gallery.com and leonexchange.com for more information and to place an online bid.
@lennyjpg: ...maybe i should write a book on generative ish, creative code, processing, or something. or i could just shut the fuck up and render. yes.
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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