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getting cozy with Ole’ Man Time
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. “Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ÔI … Continue reading
jealous water
Two great traditions of water: that of the East which likens water to love and that of the West which treats water like fire. Its tenuous, enigmatic union with architecture has been given poetic permanence in an Arabic inscription on … Continue reading
alhambra
It evokes a setting for the Arabian Nights… The Moors disapproved of representational art, and the Alhambra is chiefly adorned with geometric designs in a wealth of variation. Inscriptions in Arabic or Kufic characters are integral with the stucco decoration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Ahmar Alhambra, al-Khatib chronicler, Alhambra Granada, Alhambra Palace, Charles V Spain, Ferdinand III Castile, Hall of the Two Sisters Alhambra, King Ferdinand Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sultans Nasrid Dynasty, Theophile Gautier, University of Granada, Washington Irving, Yusef I Nasrid Dynasty
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Alhambra: languid but not tranquil
Despite its languid and sensuous atmosphere, the palace was anything but tranquil. Twenty-one rulers in 254 years means an average of about one every twelve years. Since both al-Ahmar and Yusef I had comfortably long reigns of forty-one and twenty-one … Continue reading
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Tagged Abencerrages execution Granada, Al-Ahmar Alhambra, Alhambra Granada, Alhambra Palace, Alhambra Patio de los Leones, Emilio Garcia Gomez, King Ferdinand Spain, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nasrid kings, Nasrid Kings of Granada, Queen Isabella Spain, Theophile Gautier, Washington Irving, Yusuf I Granada
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tiny bubbles
A Cluster of Soap Bubbles is how Theophile Gautier described the decoration of the Alhambra. Yet in spite of its fragility, it has survived many a more substantial palace, and lastingly evokes a setting for The Arabian Nights. Of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhambra, Alhambra Granada, Boabdil of Granada, King Ferdinand Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed XI Boabdil, Nasrid Kings of Granada, Queen Isabella Spain, Theophile Gautier, Washington Irving
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THE CLAUS THAT REFRESHES
In the beginning, Santa Claus was a multi-dimensional figure, that lent itself to multiple interpretations. But in the 1920′s his popular image began to take form…. White Rock Beverages began using the image of Santa Claus to sell Mineral Water … Continue reading
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Tagged Bea Sempere, Bruce Lordson, Clement C. Moore, David Pescovitz, Frances Billinghurst, Fred Mizen, Gerry Bowler, Haddon Sundblom, Ken Wheaton Advertising Age, Leyendecker, Mark Pendergrast, N.C. Wyeth, Nast, Norman Rockwell, Robert W. Butler, Terry Watkins, Washington Irving, White Rock Beverages
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SANTA ON THE BUBBLE: When He Was Fab
Santa on Parole. In the early 1800′s, a man by the name of Washington Irving described the image he had of Santa Claus in a satire of New York. Legend has it that the Dutch had a figure of Saint … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Tanquero, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bea Sempere, Bruce Lordson, Clement C. Moore, David Pescovitz, Don Rittner, Frances Billinghurst, Haddon Sundblom, Haddon Sundbloom, Jefferson Davis, Louise B. Gabriel, Lyman Frank Baum, Ogden Nash, Ogden Nash Santa Claus, Thomas Nast, Viki Howard, Washington Irving
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