#Plutarch #ParallelLives #Pericles 12/
For this reason are the works of Pericles all the more to be wondered at; they were created in a short time for all time.
Each one of them, in its beauty, was even then and at once antique; but in the freshness of its vigour it is, even to the present day, recent and newly wrought.
Such is the bloom of perpetual newness, as it were, upon these works of his, which makes them ever to look untouched by time, as though the unfaltering breath of an ageless spirit has been infused into them.
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[Section 13]
"Vale (Farewell)," Arthur Hacker, 1913.
British painter Hacker (1858-1919) painted this toward the end of his career; was he sensing it was time to retire? Or, as some maintain, was he sensing the coming of the Great War?
There's not a lot of biographical info about him, other than he was the son of an engraver and was very much a classicist. He was known primarily for religious paintings and portraits. He was quite a success for his time, although now regard for his work has fallen. This canvas, though, has quite an impact, and he may warrant a closer look.
From a private collection.
"Landscape with a Calm," Nicolas Poussin, 1650-51.
Poussin (1594-1665) painted this as a companion piece to another painting, "Landscape with a Storm," which explains a few things. He was one of the great figures of the classical French Baroque period, and was known for his historical, religious, and mythical-themed works, which all had narratives and sent messages.
This painting comes from a time when he moved to doing landscapes without any story or message. Poussin did most of his work in Rome, and often took sketching trips up and down Italy to get ideas for his work. This may have been born from one or more of those sketches.
From the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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Tamen cantabitis,
Arcades inquit montibus
Hæc vestris:
soli cantare periti Arcades.
O mihi tum quam
molliter ossa quiescant,
Vestra meos olim si fistula
dicat amores.
#Virgil
Auch ich war
in Arkadien geboren.
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#Poussin
different tomb
same inscription
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29 December 1832: Death of Johann Friedrich Cotta (b. 1764), greatest German #publisher of the era of #Classicism & #Romanticism.
The great formal portrait by Karl Jakob Theodor Leybold depicts him in the uniform of Vice President of the Second Chamber of the Württemberg Parliament, 1824.
He himself is said to have preferred the simple sketch portrait of him as publisher, reading a manuscript. It is noteworthy that he tended to describe his role as that of a "merchant."
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29 December 1832: Death of Johann Friedrich Cotta (b. 1764), greatest German #publisher of the era of #Classicism & #Romanticism.
He revived the moribund family firm in Tübingen & recruited so many leading #authors that contemporaries called him the Napoleon of the #booksellers & spoke of the company's "monopoly on the classics" until the expiration of eternal publishing rights in 1867.
Schiller's journal Die Horen: cover of last issue, 1797; title page of 1st, 1795 1/n
