Georges de La Tour (1593 1652) was a painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death. His early work shows influences from Caravaggio, probably via his Dutch followers, and the genre scenes of cheats—as in The Fortune Teller —and fighting beggars clearly derive from the Dutch Caravaggisti, and probably also his fellow-Lorrainer, Jacques Bellange. These are believed to date from relatively early in his career.
He is best known for the nocturnal light effects which he developed much further than his artistic predecessors had done, and transferred their use in the genre subjects in the paintings of the Dutch Caravaggisti to religious painting in his. Unlike Caravaggio his religious paintings lack dramatic effects. He painted these in a second phase of his style, perhaps beginning in the 1640s, using chiaroscuro, careful geometrical compositions, and very simplified painting of forms. His work moves during his career towards greater simplicity and stillness — taking from Caravaggio very different qualities than Jusepe de Ribera and his Tenebrist followers did.

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Marianne Stokes, neé Preindlsberger, (1855-1927), was born in southern Austria and studied in Munich and France, where she worked under Colin and Courtois. She worked in the provinces as well as in Paris, and, like many young artists, was influenced by the rustic naturalists led by Bastien-Lepage. She adopted methods similar to theirs, and even though her subject matter gradually changed from rustic genre to medieval romance and biblical themes, her style continued to show her artistic allegiance clearly. She exhibited throughout the 1890s at the Royal Academy, and held a joint exhibition with her husband, the English landscape artist Adrian Stokes, at the Fine Art Society in 1900.
The following obituary appeared in The Connoisseur in September 1927:
"The Late Mrs. Adrian Stokes.
Marianne Preindlsberger Stokes, born in Graz, Austria, began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1884. The following year she was using her husband's name and was professionally known as Mrs. Adrian Stokes. Her figure and "fancy" subjects demonstrated her charm, sensitivity and skill as a painter. She was an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. She was a pleasant person whose work, with its curiously subtle appeal, deserves remembrance. She had been ill for some time."

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I'M SO GLAD AND HONOURED FOR YOUR COMMENTS SO NICE AND KIND !
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART !!!

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Santa Maria - Ave Maria: Ending # 2 (prayer) / dedicated with love to my kind friend Brunella (user Nebrulla) / Orthodox Christian icons / Icons Morphed / by Alicia7777777 / made in Wonderland ;)
Voice - Deanna Durbin... Deanna Durbin and the Vienna Boys Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) perform the Bach - Gounod setting of Ave Maria.... the recording was made in 1937...
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Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum:
benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus
fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
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Orthodox Christian icons.
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Thank you my wonderful Sister Brunella for putting the idea for this morph in my stupid head.... About "Angel Morph" - just wait....

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Lucilla Galeazzi's Quelle Parole

guitar and vocal performance: Brunella
http://www.youtube.com/user/ne brulla

My exceptional gratitude to Brunella for allowing me to make this video with the modest recording of her playing and singing which she has dedicated to our friend, ♥Jeanne♥

Translated in English by Brunella:

THOSE WORDS

Those words
you've never told me
hidden in the heart
strangled in the chest
one of these days
they will look for you
and then they will say to you
"But what are you doing?"
Then suddenly
they will get out of you
with their agitated eyes
with their dry lips
their hands in the air
speaking to whom
you haven't had the courage
to speak to...

Quiet quiet
quiet is love
quiet quiet
it cannot speak
because it's looking for the words
because it's looking for them and cannot find them
Quiet quiet
quiet is love
quiet quiet
it doesn't let us speak
otherwise I should tell you
my heart is full
of all this love
that is killing me
otherwise I should tell you
my heart is full
of all this love
...and that I hate you as well...

Those words
that you've never said
hidden in the heart
shut up in the chest
one of these days
you'll be able to find them again
and utter to yourself all of them
without choking.
For they have weighed on you
during all these years
because you've practiced deceptions
with me
yet it's been enough to want to see
that you by yourself have known those words

Now you know
love needs words and kisses
and silence as well
to be able to stay
full of warmth, full of presence,
full of friendship, full of honesty
Now you know
love needs words and kisses
and caresses as well, and they all want to say:
I lack nothing
I lack nothing
I lack nothing
If I stay with you!

♥♥♥♥

QUELLE PAROLE

Quelle parole
Che nun m'hai mai detto
Nascoste ner core
Strozzate ner petto
Un giorno de questi
Te verranno a cercà
E poi te diranno
Ma che stai a fa'?
Allora de botto
Te usciranno tutte
Coll'occhi agitati
Co' le labbra asciutte
Le mano pe' l'aria
Parlando co' chi
Nun c'hai avuto il coraggio
De sapejele dì...

Zitto zitto zitto
Zitto sta l'amore
Zitto zitto zitto
Che nun pò parlà
Perché sta cercanno le parole
Perché sta cercanno e nun le pò trovà

Zitto zitto zitto
Zitto sta lamore
Zitto zitto zitto
Che nun fa parlà
Sennò devo ditte
Che c'ho pieno er core
De tutto st'amore
Che me st'ammazzà
Sennò devo ditte
Che c'ho pieno er core
De tutto s'tamore
... e che te odio pure!

Quelle parole
Che nun hai mai detto
Nascoste ner core
rinchiuse ner petto
Un giorno de questi
Le saprai ritrovà
Pe' dittele tutte
Pe' nun soffocà
E t'hanno pesato
In tutti quest'anni
Perché hai fatto finta
Co' me de l'inganni
Eppure bastava volello vedé
Che quelle parole le sapevi da te

Mó lo sai,
l'amore vò parole e baci
E pure silenzi
Pe potecce sta
Pieni de calore, pieni de presenze,
pieni damicizia, pieni donestà
Mó lo sai
L'amore vò parole e baci
E pure carezze e vojono dì che
Numme manca gnente
Numme manca gnente
Numme manca gnente
Se io sto co' te

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A poem recorded by Mel (Mel reciting)
http://www.youtube.com/user/en cinitasmel
and re-edited by me:

Loving Idly is one of my poems from my second collection of poems published in 2006 under the title Paper Doves

My exceptional gratitude to Heidi
http://www.youtube.com/user/fa riethesun
for reminding me to upload this poem again
Thank you Heidi
Thank you Mel
respectfully,
Stela

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In qualche parte del mondo - Luigi Tenco, 1962, trnsl into English by Brunella

In qualche parte del mondo
una capanna tra gli alberi
sopra una piccola spiaggia
accarezzata dal mare

In qualche parte del mondo
un bosco pieno di favole
l'ombra di un vecchio mulino
e l'acqua calma del fiume

Talvolta socchiudo gli occhi e m'illudo
d'essere là sulla spiaggia
oppure all'ombra del vecchio mulino

In qualche parte del mondo
non sogno altro che un angolo
dove fuggire lontano
dalla mia vita di sempre

IMAGES (all but two) are by
JEFFREY NEWCOMER
Photo Collection
Fall
PARTRIDGE BROOK REFLECTIONS

* I have not asked for permission to use these lovely images as I cannot find a contact address to refer to.
I hope the author would understand and forgive me.
If he finds it necessary, I shall remove the video instantly.
I do not know the names of the authors of the images at 0.3 and 0.30

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I have the honor of hosting these most current uploads on my channel. They are created by 1petraworld, who is closing her channel and dedicated her videos to her friends. I hope you will enjoy them here. Thanks also to nebrulla, who assisted in the placement. You are both very special to me :)

from 1Petraworld's published poetry

music: "The Chairman's Waltz", from the movie
Memoirs of a Geisha

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I have the honor of hosting these most current uploads on my channel. They are created by 1petraworld, who is closing her channel and dedicated her videos to her friends. I hope you will enjoy them here. Thanks also to nebrulla, who assisted in the placement. You are both very special to me :)

My amateur work
The very first sculpture you see is not mine but it has stirred my imagination and creativity many times since my early childhood

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Brunella in Wonderland / dedicated to Brunella (Nebrulla) / by Alicia7777777 / made in Wonderland ;)
Music: "Brunella's theme No.1" by Alicia7777777 - dedicated to Brunella

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Salvador Dalí - The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) / Dedicated with gratitude to my friend Maria Inês - user Lubango88/ by Alicia7777777 / made in Wonderland ;)

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Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night / by Alicia7777777 / made in Wonderland ;)

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