06 October 2014

Neither at peace nor at home

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Alessio Sopracasa has found a remarkable source for the Venetian-Ottoman war in the Venetian archives. A single page contains a se...
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28 September 2014

Looking out, looking in

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Andrew Wyeth, Frostbitten , 1962. watercolor on paper. 16 x 23 ½ in. Of the more than 370 entries I have written here, the se...
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20 September 2014

Oranges, salt pork, and grain

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This picture and the one below are from Michael of Rhodes . In trying to find out how Greeks lived their lives in the fifteenth cen...
12 September 2014

Crow Summer 2014: Part Two

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Crows in moult: the view from my desk. Watching the crows this summer, we have learned to distinguish several of them by a combin...
04 September 2014

Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Eleven

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Possibly Guillaume Dufay. Cleofe probably never had a pavane –it was a slightly later development of a dance form she knew -- bu...
28 August 2014

Another missing woman - the second wife of Theodoros I

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Picture from unidentified source. Help requested. This entry is based on a fascinating article by Angeliki Tzavara and Thierry Ga...
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21 August 2014

On vacation: Oedipus

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Myth   by Muriel Rukeyser "Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. I...
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15 August 2014

On vacation: August 15

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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Coronation of the Virgin.  ca. 1605. Athens, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Collection. ...
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