Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Fish Blood, 1898

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Josef Engelhart (1867–1915)

Poster design for the XXXIII. Secessions-Ausstellung
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Adam and Eve
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Female Nude leaning forward, side-bar stretcher
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The Wind
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Study to Wallflower
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Salome
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Athene, ca. 1909
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I came to think of...

Achille Lemoine: 'Apparition', 1899-1900
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Josef Engelhart: 'Akt im Kastanienbaum'
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See you in a week or so...

Dear friends,

I'm going on a conference again and I don't think
I'll find any time to blog for a week or so...

Take care, enjoy the fall...and see you!

Autumn sun

Michaelmas Greetings!

Postcard by Marie-Laure Viriot
Purchase it here

Michaelmas...

Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels,
is celebrated on the 29th of September every year.
As it falls near the equinox, the day is associated with
the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days
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St Michael is one of the principal angelic warriors,
protector against the dark of the night and the
Archangel who fought against Satan and his evil
angels. As Michaelmas is the time that the darker
nights and colder days begin - the edge into winter -
the celebration of Michaelmas is associated with
encouraging protection during these dark months
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Michaelmas Day - 'Shooting the Moon', 1836
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September 29th - or Old Michaelmas Day/October 10th
(..and May 1st) - was 'skiftedag' - ' Moving Day'
Hmmm, some had to move by night...

Michaelmas Day.
John Leech sketch from Punch, 1847
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Michaelmas was 'a goose day' in the older days,
remember this?

Postcard of St. Michael by Marie-Laure Viriot
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Saint Michael; stained glass in the Pfarrkirche
in Linz am Rhein (Germany) 20th cent
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by R. de Cramer
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Mid-12th century St. Michael

St. Michael, detail from Abraham and the
Archangel Michael, Lower Saxony, mid-12th
century; in Halberstadt Cathedral, Germany

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Morris, dragons and St. Michael...

Peacock and Dragon, 1878
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St Michael and the Dragon, about 1862
Cartoon for stained glass by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co

Peter Paul Marshall (1830-1900)
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St. Michael the Archangel, Waterford, Herts.
by William Morris, 1872

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...in black and white...

From the book 'De gamle Kalkmalerier i vore Kirker'

by Julius Magnus Petersen, 1900
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Martin Schongauer:
Michael and the Dragon, 1470

Decorative Initial T With Dragons
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Isn't he charming??

I'm so smitten with him!

By damonthomaskiley

St. Michael and...

'Archangel Saint Michael', a detail
Bartolomeo della Gatta, ca. 1480
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From a German cut off leaf

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
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St Michael Archangel, a detail
by Vincenzo Foppa (ca. 1430-ca. 1515)
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French medieval illuminated manuscript
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Paolo Veronese:
'Head of St. Michael' a detail, ca. 1563
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Gooood morning!

We have a bit of an Indian Summer here in
Denmark...and the mornings are so lovely:
a warm sun, morning dew...like magic...

It's always tea time...

Three ladies enjoying tea and a bite to eat
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A rather large Australian family having
afternoon tea in a giant tree, 1900s
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Victorian women having Japanese tea party
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Tea cups/mugs I like on Etsy...

Cup and saucer with turquoise and teal pattern
Dawn Dishaw Ceramics

Mouse stoneware pottery mugs
Little Wren Pottery

Mermaid mug
Sky Bird Arts

Floral Swirl Stoneware Cup
Muddy Fingers

Reuse? Tea bags can be used twice!

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Time for a cup of tea...in Wales...

Ladies enjoying a cup

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Fortune telling and a cup of tea postcard
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John Thomas, Two women in Welsh National
costume drinking tea, 1875
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Tea in the Garden - vintage postcard, 1906
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...wonder what is in the basket...?
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Miss Ada Davies, Bontuchel, drinking tea
in Welsh national dress, c. 1885

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A Welsh Tea Party postcard
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