December 15
Art Neuendorffer
"lyra" <mountai...@RockAthens.com> wrote
> Vermeer, too, uses secret grail symbolism (?)
> http://www.vermeersriddlerevealed.com/
Consider that Vermeer's wife is said to have lamented after his untimely
death at age forty-three -- (1632-1675) -- only 43 years old at death!
"One day he was walking around healthy & happy -- the next day -- dead!"
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December 15, 1675, Jan Vermeer dies suddenly at 43
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1215.htm
December 15, 37, The Roman emperor Nero born
December 15, 1485, Henry 8th's Catherine of Aragon born
December 15, 1654 A weather observatory in Tuscany
began daily temperature records.
December 15, 1683 Isaak Walton (_The Compleat Angler_) dies
He is known for his biographical information on John Donne
December 15, 1694 Queen Mary II mortally ill (Aubrey)
December 15, 1787, Charles Cowden Clarke,
Shakespearean critic, & John Keats' friend born.
December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights, went into effect.
December 15, 1811, John Bradbury, a Scottish naturalist,
just upstream from the Chicksaw Bluffs (the future Memphis)
was asleep when "a most tremendous noise" panicked the group.
"All nature seemed running into chaos," he later wrote,
"as wild fowl fled, trees snapped & river banks
tumbled into the water." Called the New Madrid Earthquake,
because New Madrid (Missouri) was the closest settlement.
December 15, 1815, Jane Austen's Emma was published: "EVERY WORD of it
- I am sure she would *pore* over it till she had made out EVERY WORD."
December 15, 1832, Gustave Eiffel born
December 15, 1840, Napoleon Bonaparte's remains were interred
in Les Invalides in Paris, having been brought from St. Helena,
where he died in exile. Hitler visited Paris for only one day
and the only place he wanted to visit was Napoleon's tomb.
December 15, 1871, Carroll sends Dalziel bros. Ł203.16
for engraving of _Through the Looking-Glass_
December 15, 1890, Sitting Bull was killed at Grand River,
South Dakota, along with eleven other tribesmen. He was in an
Army jail and the soldiers maintained he was trying to escape.
December 15, 1966, Walter Elias "Walt" Disney dies in L.A. at 65.
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Microscopist, Antony van Leeuwenhoek (F.R.S., 1632-1723),
was named trustee for the Vermeer estate.
Both are buried in Oude Kerk (Old Church), Delft, Netherlands:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3757&pt=Jan%20%27Johan
nes%27%20Vermeer
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6374199&pt=Antony%20Va
n%20Leeuwenhoek
Only 35 of Vermeer's canvases have survived.
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http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/astrology/vermeer.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/dart/d-a-vermeer2.htm
<<Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was born in De Vliegende Vos
(the Flying Fox) an inn on Voldersgracht, two houses east of
the Old Mens' House which became the Guild of St. Luke building.
The son of an art dealer, whose business he inherited,
he was baptised 31 October 1632 date of birth unknown.
Vermeer painted purely for pleasure, lived entirely in obscurity
and fathered 11 children, dying 15 Dec. 1675 at the age of 43. He was
a Catholic in a Protestant country and upon his death his wife was
declared bankrupt. All 40 odd paintings were given away to pay debts.>>
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<<St. Quentin was beheaded & DROWNED IN THE RIVER SOMME.
Quentin is the patron saint of PORTERS & TAILORS>>
Samhain (Halloween), Witches New Year by the old Celtic calendar.
Quentin of Amiens (Quintinus)- Feastday October 31
Feastday of Sekhmet and Bast: October 31.
www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/1031.htm
October 31, 1611, Thur. Beaumont & Fletcher's play
_The Maid's Tragedy_ registered.
October 31, 1620, Tues. John Evelyn [founder of Royal Society] born
October 31, 1820, Tues. Haydn's corpse found BEHEADED
October 30, 1632 (N.S.), Sat Christopher Wren (F.R.S.) born.
October 24, 1632, Sun Antony van Leeuwenhoek (F.R.S.) born
October 31, 1632, Sun Jan Vermeer born at the Flying Fox Inn.
October 31, 1795, Sat John Keats born at the Swan & Hoop Inn.
October 31, 1517, Sat Martin Luther NAILED his 95 theses
on the door of the Wittenberg church.
October 31, 1615, Sat Cervantes' dedication to Conde de Lemos
We READ = Nós LEMOS [Portuguese]
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/
<<Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675,
a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft. His works are rare.
Of the 35 or 36 paintings generally attributed to him, most portray figures
in interiors. All his works are admired for the sensitivity with which he
rendered effects of light & color and for the poetic quality of his images.
Little is known for certain about Vermeer's life and career. He was born
in 1632, the son of a silk worker with a taste for buying and selling art.
Vermeer himself was also active in the art trade. He lived and worked in
Delft all his life. Not much is known about Vermeer's apprenticeship as an
artist either. His teacher may have been Leonaert Bramer, a Delft artist who
was a witness at Vermeer's marriage in 1653, or the painter Carel Fabritius
of Delft. In 1653 he enrolled at the local artists guild. His earliest
signed & dated painting, The Procuress (1656; Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister,
Dresden), is thematically related to a Dirck van Baburen painting
that Vermeer owned and that appears in the background
of two of his own paintings.
After his death Vermeer was overlooked by all but the most discriminating
collectors and art historians for more than 200 years. His few pictures
were attributed to other artists. Only after 1866, when the French critic
W. Thore-Burger "rediscovered" him, did Vermeer's works become
widely known and his works heralded as genuine Vermeers.
Barely 35 works are known to have been painted by Vermeer. His early
paintings - mainly history pieces - reveal the influence of the Utrecht
Caravaggists. In his later works, however, he produced meticulously
constructed interiors with just one or two figures - usually women. These
are intimate genre paintings in which the principal figure is invariably
engaged in some everyday activity: one is reading a letter, another is
fastening a collar about her neck, yet another is pouring out milk.
Often the light enters Vermeer's paintings from a window. He was a
master at depicting the way light illuminates objects and in the
rendering of materials. The Rijksmuseum has three domestic portraits
by Vermeer and one street scene: the world-famous Little Street. >>
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http://vermeergallery.tripod.com/history.htm
1632 Johannes Vermeer born, Delft, Holland, of Reynier Vermeer,
silk weaver and art dealer.
1641 The Vermeers moved into "Mechelen", an inn on the market square.
1653 Vermeer married Catherina Bolnes, daughter of Maria Thins.
1655 Vermeer's father Reynier died.
1657 An inventory lists a painting The Visit of the Holy Women
to the Tomb of Christ valued at 20 guilders.
1662 Vermeer chosen as a member of the Board of the St. Lukes Guild,
a trade association of artists.
1663 A French visitor, Balthasar de Monconys offered
a Vermeer painting by a baker for 480 guilders.
1672 The Vermeers moved to Maria Thins' house on the Oude Langendijk.
1675 Vermeer died.
1676 Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), the microscopist,
named trustee for the Vermeer estate.
1676 Inventory of the estate:
19 paintings bequeathed to Catherina Bolnes & Maria Thins.
1676 Catherina Bolnes pays a debt of 617 guilders to a baker
with two paintings.
1680 Maria Thins died.
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675), Dutch painter, who excelled in portraying
comfortable interior scenes that are composed with mathematical
clarity and suffused with cool, silvery light.
Vermeer, also called Jan van der Meer van Delft, was born in Delft and
baptized on October 31, 1632. After a 6-year apprenticeship, part of
it probably under the Dutch painter Carel Fabritius, he was admitted in 1653
to the guild of St Luke of Delft as a master painter. An important member
of the guild, he served four terms on its board of governors and been well
appears to have known to his contemporaries. He made a modest living
as an art dealer rather than as a painter.
Only 35 of Vermeer's canvases have survived, none appear to have been
sold. Their small number is the result of Vermeer's deliberate, methodical
work habits, his comparatively short life, and the disappearance of many
of his paintings during the period of obscurity following his death
in Delft on December 15, 1675.
With a few exceptions, including some landscapes, street scenes, and
portraits, Vermeer's output consisted of sunlit domestic interiors in which
one or two figures are shown reading, writing, playing musical instruments,
or engaged in a domestic task. These objectively observed, precisely
executed genre paintings of Dutch life in the 17th century are
characterized by a geometrical sense of order. He was a master
of composition and in the representation of space.
Forgotten after his death and not rediscovered until the late 19th century,
his reputation steadily increased thereafter. He is today considered one
of the greatest Dutch painters. Fakes of his work were made for a time
and sold to the Germans during World War II .>>
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MISCELLANIES UPON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
BY JOHN AUBREY, F.RS.
http://library28.tripod.com/13-1.html
J. H. Esq.* being at West-Lavington with the Earl of Abbingdon,
dreamed, December the 9th, his mother rose up in mourning: and anon
the Queen appeared in mourning. He told his dream the next morning to
my Lord, and his Lordship imparted it to me (then there) Tuesday,
December 11. In the evening came a messenger, post from London, to
acquaint Mr. H. that his mother was dangerously ill: he went to
London the next day; his mother lived but about eight days longer.
On Saturday, December 15, the Queen was taken ill, which turned to
the small pox, of which she died, December 28, about two o'clock
in the morning.
Queen Mary II dies (Dec. 28, 1694)
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Innocents Day (Dec. 28, 1594)
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As widow of the Treasurer of the Chamber (Thomas Heneage d.1592)
Southampton's mother (Mary Browne MONTAGU Wriothesley Heneage)
was given the task to pay William Shakespeare & friends:
<<1595-3-15: Royal record. An entry in the accounts of the Treasurer of
the Chamber reads: "To William Kempe, William Shakespeare and Richard
Burbage, SERVAUNTS to the Lord Chamberleyne, upon the Councille's
warrant dated at Whitehall XVth Marcij 1594, for two severall COMEDIES
or enterludes shewed by them before her majestie in CHRISTMAS tyme
laste part viz St. Stephen's daye and Innocents daye..." (Public
Record Office, Pipe Office, Declared Accounts No. 542, f. 207b).>>
Unfortunately, it was THE ADMIRAL's men
who played for the Queen on Innocents Day (Dec. 28, 1594)
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http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/phase/phases.1501-1600.html
Dec. 28, 1598 (J) 03:53 (new moon) Innocents Day (Dec. 28, 1598)
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http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/micro/729/42.html
http://www.wiu.edu/users/muhms3/December.htm
<<The Theatre was leased by James Burbage.
When Burbage died in February 1597 and the lease of the Theater
was transferred to Cuthbert Burbage. On December 28, 1598
the Theatre was dismantled and on January 20, 1599 the lumber
was moved to the location where the new Globe was to be built.>>
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Van Leeuwenhoek, Antony b. October 24, 1632 d. August 30, 1723
<<Father of modern Microbiology. Antony van Leeuwenhoek (proununced
Layu-wen-hook) was born on October 24, 1632 in Delft, Holland.
Leeuwenhoek received only an elementary education and spoke only Dutch,
but made some of the most important discoveries in biological history.
In 1648, he served as an apprentice in a linen-draper shop.
In 1654, he started a business as a fabric merchant.
He also worked as a wine assayer, city official and surveyor.
After reading the book, Micrographia, he became interested in microscopes.
Compound microscopes which use more than one lens were invented around 1595.
Two of the most notable inventors of compound microscopes were Robert
Hooke & Jan Swammerdam. Leeuwenhoek did not use the compound microscope
to make his observations. He grinded small lenses of short focal length and
obtained a resolving power that was greater than that of the early compound
microscopes. He learned how to grind lenses and began making observations
of various specimens. He made over 500 microscopes. Less than ten have
survived. One of his lenses that survives has a magnifying power of about
270 times. Some of his other lenses were even more powerful. The three
to four-inch long microscopes were simple devices, which had one lens
mounted in a small hole in a brass plate. The specimen were
mounted on a sharp point that stuck up in front of the lens.
Focus & position could be adjusted by turning two screws.
Leeuwenhoek was very patient and a careful observer. He had a very sharp
eyesight. He examined materials such as rain water, small insects, muscle
fibers, skin tissues, and many other specimens. He made drawings & notes
of his observations. In 1674, he made the first observations of microbes,
becoming one of the greatest seminal discoveries in history. He described
many types of bacteria and protozoa and calculated their sizes.
In 1677, he became the first person to describe spermatozoa
and was one of the earliestto describe red blood corpuscles.
Leeuwenhoek wrote letters to the Royal Society of London, the leading
scientific society during that time. He corresponded with them
for 50 years, detailing his observations with his microscopes.
The letters were translated into English and Latin and published
in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
In 1680, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of England and was
also a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Antony
van Leeuwenhoek died on August 30, 1723. In a letter written to the Royal
Society, the pastor of the New Church at Delft wrote about Leeuwenhoek,
"For which reason, by diligence and tireless labour he made with his own
hand certain most excellent lenses, with the aid of which he discovered
many secrets of Nature, now famous throughout the philosophical World.">>
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Art Neuendorffer