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TomSQC
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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate.
Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est.
'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie'
(Mountain Laurel by Donal)
Pinned
As I would ever be.
(Le Liseur, Odilon Redon, 1892)
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Buy my Pretty Violets, from Mélodies de Désiré Dihau
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Chag Chanukah sameach from Ozzy
December 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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On Gustave Eiffel's birthday, my favourite Eiffel Tower photographs

📷 André Kertész
Paris, The Eiffel Tower, 1925
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Saint Lucy, tempera and gold leaf on panel, by Niccolò di Segna, 1340, currently on view at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Born on this day in 1553: Henri IV of France. Always looks like such a cheerful, benevolent fellow. Tolerant, too! Too bad he was assassinated in 1610, the very year of this lovely drawing.
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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'Breakfast of the Birds' by Gabriele Münter (1934). There's a retrospective of her work now at the Guggenheim in New York, which I enjoyed seeing yesterday.

Details of the show can be found here:
www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/g...
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Saint Anna, the mother of the mother of God
December 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos]
The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595/1600

Look how Mary has her arm around Anne.

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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In 1887 at Asnières-sur-Seine, Van Gogh painted bridges and factories with Pointillist dots and dashes to capture reflections on the Seine.
He sought to show industry and leisure sharing the same spaces of modern life.
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Today is Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. May you always go in prayer to Mary, our mother.

Image: Lady Chapel, St. Patrick’s Cathedral
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon across time and cultures. In this extract, Kenyon charts the development of the carol, and their enduring association with Christmas.

yalebooks.co.uk/the-origins-...

#music #history #skystorians
The Origins of Christmas Carols - Yale University Press London
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all music—across time and In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores ...
yalebooks.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Ewer in the Form of an Elephant
Vietnam
11th–12th century

(Met Museum)
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Saint Ambrose of Milan, tempera on wood panel with ground gold, by Giovanni Di Paolo, circa 1470, currently on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Just back from the Helene Schjerfbeck show at The Met. It's wonderful to have so much work from this powerful Finnish painter in New York. This is 'Self Portrait, Black Background' from 1915. It's on loan from The Finnish National Gallery.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’

~Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#PhantomsFriday
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Church of the Holy Spirit, Kenyon College.
The church looked nice in the snow as I walked over to fold bulletins yesterday after work.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Eugène Fredrik Jansson‘s Evening, 1894
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Today, December 4, is the feast day of Saint John (Giovanni) Calabria (1873 – 1954), Catholic priest devoted to the poor and infirm, founder of two congregations, and a correspondent, in Latin, with C.S. Lewis. Christmas present to self: The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis (St. Augustine's Press).
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM