Kansas - Monolith
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Kansas - Audio Visions
Roedelius - Selbstportrait
Locke - The Broken Consort
Marini - Curiosi
D'India - Primo Libro
Hindemith - Complete String Quartets
Guess what...
No wonder Meg the Black Cat just lies around...
Give me an "S"...
Give me a "C"...
Give me an "O"...
Etc - you get the drift...
No further purchases today but the new Perry acquisition made it onto the playlist and entertained - I think her time may have gone now though...
As Anne left for Zumba, this wee beastie was spotted...
Hopefully, he/she will remain safe from traffic and will be collecting nuts for years to come...
Watched "Iron Sky" - just as well I did so on my own - reasonably entertaining, good special effects but utter tosh really...
At nine, I had ringed a programme - something I don't do very often these days - however it was the first in a series re how art collecting changed the face of English culture through the centuries...
"Bought with Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections" was the programme in question - the link will take you to BBC's iPlayer where it will be available for a week or so (if you live in the UK)...
It started from the premise that the Tudors, post Henry VIII's cutting off of England from Catholic Europe, had created a cultural desert, with most paintings being portraits, not even worthy of having the artist recorded and used, in the main, merely to reflect the subject's status...
Here, Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I...
A German visitor to London in 1598 wrote that the most interesting thing to look at were the 30 or so heads on spikes on London Bridge...
The coming to the throne in 1603 of the catholic James I (and VI of Scotland) heralded a new age...
By the 1620's and 30's and the reign of James' son, Charles I, London was teeming with continental artworks bought in Italy and the low countries...
Here, Rembrandt's portrait of his mother, much more life like...
OK so most of them were in the King's houses - and those of his chums - but it was a start...
soon, painters were lured to England by patronage and commissions - here Van Dyk's family portrait for the 4th Earl of Pembroke...
Full of hidden meaning and allegory...
I will follow this series...
Upstairs to write this up, to the sound of 17th Century music...
Meanwhile Anne's beloved Hearts thumped Raith Rovers in a friendly, 5-0 tonight...
We will see them play Queen of the South on Saturday in Dumfries...
Lights out, with Paul Hindemith...
Highlight of the Day : Learning about the history of art in the UK...
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