It is the hotly defended position of those most opposed to binary distinctions to see the world in black and white.
hahaha very good.
L’amor che muove il sole e l’altre stelleDantis Amor - Finished Study
1859 – 1860
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Dido Elizabeth Belle
Scotland (1779)
oil on canvas
Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)
Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.
This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.
The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.
Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.
Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.
Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.
Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.
My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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It would be good to know where her Mother came from and what input her mother had in her life.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d43ee6b11067ecdb0067a68065d0086a/tumblr_molg92ZgV91ssmm02o1_500.jpg)
Unknown (formerly att. Johann Zoffany)
Dido Elizabeth Belle
Scotland (1779)
oil on canvas
Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)
Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.
This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.
The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.
Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.
Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.
Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.
Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.
My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
It would be good to know where her Mother came from and what input her mother had in her life.
Dear Social Justice ~Warriors~,
if your biggest contribution to society is using the things you learned in your Arts degree to yell at people, you should probably rethink your life right noe because you sound jaded and ignorant.
P.S. Now when I talk about being a feminist people assume I am like you, so thanks for ruining that for me.
weird list from Wired
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
123-year-old group that shaped modern occultism and attracted William Butler Yeats and Bram Stoker.
Accused of: Bizarre antinomian sex rituals.
Actual activities: A mishmash of Kabbalah and tarot practices. During initiation, the soul, body, and psyche are “spiritually separated.”
Free and Accepted Masons
Thought to originate in medieval stonemason guilds.
Accused of: Running the government, placing pagan symbols on our currency.
Actual activities: Taking an oath to be charitable and law-abiding. Wearing aprons to symbolize purity.
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Academic honor society that has padded résumés since 1776.
Accused of: Being an arm of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Actual activities: Giving academic awards. Engaging in rituals and secret handshakes that became the template for collegiate Greek systems.
The Bohemian Club
Private men’s club started in San Francisco in 1872 by men like William Randolph Hearst and Mark Twain.
Accused of: Helping plot 9/11, cavorting naked amongst the redwoods.
Actual activities: Drinking and socializing. Ritually incinerating their cares in front of a 40-foot stone owl.
Bilderberg Group
An annual off-the-record meeting of politicians and businesspeople. (Think Bill Clinton and Tim Geithner.)
Accused of: Engineering the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, the European Union, and the war in Iraq.
Actual activities: Interminable discussions on topics like finance, Africa, cyberterrorism, and US-EU relations
Via Wired.
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843-1919) La Deesse Neith
(Source: catonhottinroof, via pathspo)
Unique Hudiedao Swords
- Dated: 19th century
- Culture: Southern China/Burma
- Measurements: 56cms overall in the scabbard and are 49cms overall out of the scabbard
At close viewing of these blades, it is clear they have been made for an individual of great wealth or status. The timber and bone hilt slabs have been expertly carved and are pinned through the tang with brass pins that have been finished off with circle motifs. These pins not only help secure the slabs to the hilt but also hold 3 silver “menuki” style emblems and the hilt also has 2 Taoist coin inserts pierced to the outer wood slab between these.
The knuckle guard is iron that has a lanyard ring to the base, flowers and vines to the outside of the guard and the quillon is filed and chiseled to the end and is what appears to be a stylized dragon. The tang apart from being pinned through the hilt, is also peened to the base and shaped expertly around the lanyard ring. The blades are needle pointed and razor sharp, double fullered to both sides and the fullers are surrounded by circle and half circle symbolism.
The blades are fully pierced at both ends of the fullers and have Taoist coin symbols inserted into there piercings. The spines of both blades show expert filing patterns of almost every conceivable pattern and starts in a domed cross section and changes to a beveled cross section as it approaches the tip. Both are housed in a wonderfully crafted timber sheath that is decorated in eleven sheets of silver and four silver rings, all of varying design not typical by Hudiedao standards at all.
A Spanish statue of Maria Auxiliadora, or Our Lady Help of Christians, with St Don Bosco.
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Thank you! One of my friends messaged me about it today. I’m so glad to know because I have a tattoo like that picture!
