Virginia Woolf
born on 25th January 1882
"Big Ben was beginning to strike, first the warning,musical; then the hour, irrevocable"
(Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Virginia Woolf
born on January 25, 136 years ago
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out of her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach." (Mrs. Dalloway, 1925)
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Jean Béraud
Jean Béraud è stato un pittore francese dell’Impressionismo conosciuto per i suoi dipinti riguardanti la vita quotidiana Parigi durante la Belle Epoque. Il suo stile è permeato da un vivo realismo e i suoi soggetti preferiti sono, oltre all'ambiente borghese, anche i piccoli mestieri e l'ambientazione dei café, dei bistrot e le strade parigine.
Nacque a San Pietroburgo il 12 gennaio 1849. Dopo la morte prematura di suo
padre (che lavorava come scultore alle opere della cattedrale di Sant'Isacco), la famiglia si trasferì a Parigi. Qui incontrò il famoso pittore Léon
Bonnat (1833-1922) di cui divenne discepolo e quindi iniziò a sua volta la carriera di pittore.
Fu
ammesso al Salon parigino nel 1872,
ma gli fu riconosciuto un certo successo solo quattro anni più tardi quando,
nel 1876, presentò il suo dipinto Il Ritorno dalla sepoltura. Nel 1889
partecipò con La Società degli Acquerellisti Francesi all’Esposizione Mondiale
di Parigi. Nel 1894 ricevette la Legion d’Onore.
Jean Béraud
morì a Parigi il 4 ottobre 1935 all’età di 86 anni. È sepolto accanto alla
madre nel cimitero di Montparnasse.
Jean Béraud
Jean Béraud was a French painter who became famous for his paintings concerning daily
life in Paris during the Belle Époque. Throughout his life his style gradually shifted
from academic to impressionism.
He was born in Saint
Petersburg on January 12, 1849. His father was a sculptor who died when Jean
was a boy. Following his death, the family moved to Paris.
There he met the famous
painter Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) and began his career as a painter, too. His
first exhibition was in 1872.
He became famous in 1876 thanks to his painting On the Way Back from the Funeral. In
1889 he exhibited with the Society of French Watercolorists at the World’s Fair
in Paris. He received the Légion d’Honneur in 1894.
Jean Béraud died in
Paris on October 4, 1935 at the age of 86. He is buried in Montparnasse
Cemetery beside his mother.
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| On the Way Back From the Funeral, 1876 |
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