med. Assistent, good girl ;) reading and a glass of chilled white wine is heaven + cup of tea in the early evening does it to me + art + music + history is joy
Rodrigo composed his famous guitar concerto yet he was a pianist who wrote mostly vocal, piano & orchestral music.
Also he was blind so composed in Braille, dictating each note/bar to a copyist who transcribed it.
#ClassicalMusic#Rodrigo
'View of Rhenen.' (1908) Around 1895, the Dutch painter Ferdinand Nibbrig began experimenting with divisionism to help him capture heat and light; how he has succeeded here with a painting that has the composed grandeur of a fresco.
July from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1950. A globe artichoke takes centre stage, surrounded by heady white nicotiana, a flaked carnation, a poppy head, cornflower, begonia and Chinese forget-me-not. There are luscious summer berries but also the sinister touch of nightshade.
This is a, stunningly pretty, Jurrasic era communal coral fossil from a species called Thecosmilia. This specimen was found in County Antrim but is currently on display in the Burren visitor centre in Kilfenora, County Clare.
Italian artist Giuseppe De Nittis had a number of his paintings included in the Impressionists’ first groundbreaking exhibition in 1874. Here’s his later ‘In a Canoe’ and ‘Breakfast in the Garden’
Aldeburgh, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series of Ravilious’ work depicting bathing machines on Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk. The original artwork is in a private collection.
'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.
'Barca a terres.' (1877) This elegant image of skiffs cutting through water on a sunny day defined Gustave Caillebotte’s childhood and would later become an evocative and nostalgic motif, one to which he would return time and again as a mature artist.
Sorolla painted 'The Sails,' on the beach of El Cabañal during the summer of 1903 - it is one of the most luminously eloquent of his many images of the fisherwomen of his native Valencia.