Belle époque on the ocean

Edwardian era lady

Launched during the Edwardian era (1901-1910s), RMS Lusitania and Mauretania were British oceanliners. They both have been briefly the world's biggest ship.

First class promenade on the boat deck (Lusitania)

Machinery space (Lusitania)

Deck equipment and navigation bridge (Lusitania)

Kitchen (Lusitania)

Officer standing on the navigation bridge, looking aft (Lusitania)

Purser's bureau on the promenade deck (Lusitania)

Stateroom, second class (Lusitania)

Third class dining saloon (Lusitania)

Crew of Mauretania

Edwardian photomanipulation?

Deck machinery and curved bridge front (Mauretania)

Engine control room (Mauretania)

First class smoking room (Mauretania)

General view of upper and lower dining saloon (Mauretania)

Kitchen (Mauretania)

Third class general activity room (Mauretania)

Verandah café (Mauretania)

Mauretania under construction

The gentleman in uniform is Mauretania’s first chief engineer, John Currie

If interest, Historic ships & shipping @ flickr

Dissimilar destiny for RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania:

RMS Mauretania


RMS Lusitania

In-tal-ee-oh

To create her multi-plate intaglio prints, Nancy Previs uses techniques including solarplate etching and drypoint.

She re-works her own unretouched photographic images into traditional handmade multi-plate prints.

Nancy Previs' images capture the nature's beauty, especially the one found in open spaces, such parks and fields, near water or high in the hills.

Famous intaglio artists.

The intaglio art piece Butterfly was created by Ambera Wellmann.

Happy spring equinox!

Global block

Agustín Sirai (b. 1978) is an Argentinian artist who paints scenes that seem to exist outside the confines of space.

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Yggdrasill, the mundane tree

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree, etc…

After a lost painting of Leda and the Swan

Miniaturist painter Carl Gustav Klingstedt (1657-1734), Leda and the Swan, after Michelangelo


In his quest to acquire all things Italian, François I (1494-1547) always sought to attract the greatest lights of Italian painting—including Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, Michelangelo—to his court.

While he succeeded in convincing the aged Leonardo to enter his service in 1516 and, in so doing, obtained the Mona Lisa for France, the transalpine journey was a difficult and a dangerous one, and neither Andrea del Sarto nor Michelangelo could accept François’ invitation.

However a rare panel painting of Leda and the Swan created in 1530 by Michelangelo did make its way to France in the possession of Michelangelo’s pupil, Antonio Mini, who seems to have sold it to François I.

It entered the royal collection at Fontainebleau in the early 1530s. The painting Leda and the Swan by Michelangelo has since been lost...

The Flemish artist Cornelis Bos must have seen the work. This print, engraved and published by him, is the only record of Michelangelo’s completed painting.

 

Cornelis Bos, Leda and the Swan (1540s) after Michelangelo

Peter Paul Rubens would also have been familiar with Michelangelo’s Leda and he painted two versions of the subject.

You might notice that the twisting posture of Leda's body is very similar. Even the positioning of the fingers is mirrored. The swan is caressing the female in exactly the same way.

However the actual figure of the female varies drastically between Rubens’ style and Michelangelo’s style.

Michelangelo typically depicted women in a masculine way. Muscles are more clearly defined and the bodies look hard. The body is thinner. The hair is neatly styled. Michelangelo’s body proportions are a little skewed.

Rubens’ Leda's figure, on the other hand, is extremely curvaceous. The hair is somewhat loose and not as styled. The body proportions seem more realistic.

While Rubens’ two works are very similar, they do differ. 

Rubens' 1st Leda and the Swan (1601)

In the first depiction, the brushstrokes are looser, it is not as detailed, there is less landscape, no elaborate headpiece, the colors are muted and the drapes are green.

Rubens' 2nd Leda and the Swan (1602)

In the second painting, the brushstrokes are more precise, there is more detail, there is a clearer landscape in the background, an elaborate headpiece, more vibrant colors and the drapery is white and red.

Arbre en fleur

Raymond Thibésart (1874–1968) was a French artist who painted trees in blossom. Nice and warm post-impressions of the upcoming landscape.

Oops, now back to reality…

Berge gelée, Frosty Riverbend