Isaac Oliver = Unknown Melancholic Man?
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http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/Tudor_12_-_Symbolism_in_Elizabethan_Visual_Culture.asp
<<Isaac Oliver, Unknown Melancholic Man, c1590s.
<<William Shakespeare, in Love's Labour's Lost (1594, Act ifi: Scene
1) makes fun of melancholic love when Don Armado is advised to: "sigh
a note and sing a note. . . with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop
of your eyes, with your arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet, like
a rabbit on a spit."
and the young man above has his arms folded like a rabbit on a spit.
He is also wearing a 'penthouse' at that projects over his face like
the upper storey of a shop projects over the street. His is out in the
wilds while the couple in inside a cultivated garden.
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (London, 1628):
"What is more pleasant than to walk alone in some solitary grove,
betwixt Wood and Water, by a Brook side, to meditate upon some
delightsome and pleasant subject... A most incomparable delight it is
to melancholize, & build castles in the air... they could spend whole
days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such
contemplations, and phantastical meditations."
Note the melancholia of love in the middle left of the page and the
melancholia of thought on the middle right.
*At the top is man outside a walled garden in the wild wood.*
All melancholics were young men, not older men or women.
Older men thought it ludicrous and an affectation of rebellious youth.
The prime example is Hamlet.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Oliver
Isaac Oliver (c. 1565 - bur. October 2, 1617)
was a French-born English portrait miniature painter.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/OliverDetail.jpg
<<Born in Rouen, he moved to London in 1568 with his *Huguenot*
parents Peter and Epiphany Oliver to escape the Wars of Religion in
France. He then studied miniature painting under Nicholas Hilliard;
and developed a naturalistic style, which was largely influenced by
Italian and Flemish art. He later married Sara, daughter of the well-
known portrait painter Marcus *Gheeraerts* the Elder (c. 1520 - c.
1590) and his wife Susannah de Critz in 1602 after his first wife,
Elizabeth, had died in 1599 - the mother of his eldest child: Peter
Oliver, who was also a famous "limner". Susannah was the daughter of
Troilus de Critz, a goldsmith from Antwerp, and close relative of John
de Critz, the Queen's *Serjeant-Painter* . She was also the older
sister or cousin of Magdalen de Critz who married Marcus Gheeraerts
the Younger (1562 - 1635).
After the death of Elizabeth I, he became a painter of James I's
court, painting numerous portraits of the queen Anne of Denmark and
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. Some of his work is housed in
Windsor Castle. Some of his pen drawings are located in the British
Museum.
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Lyra <M.Q.at....@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Is this the house shown in the portrait of "Unknown [Melancholic] Man"?
> Baker had a picture he claimed was Marlowe - I don't think so myself -
> and had the idea that the house in it was Burghley House.
> This very clear photograph may help to decide this.
> __________________________________________
> File:Front of Burghley House 2009.jpg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Front_of_Burghley_House_2009.jpg
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More likely it was Henry VII's *SHENE* :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Palace
http://tinyurl.com/kp2ppp
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http://www.thames-search.com/richmond.html
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<<The palace built by Henry VII to replace the manor of *SHENE*
destroyed by fire at Christmas, 1497. And even that was not
the original *SHENE* Manor. Before that stood the manor where
Edward III died, deserted even by his servants who, led by
his mistress Alice Perrers, had snatched the *RINGS* off his
fingers. Edward's grandson, Richard II and his wife, Anne
of Bohemia, used *SHENE* as their favourite summer residence
and it is recorded that each day they fed ten thousand guests,
which hardly seems possible. But she was an extraordinary
woman & much beloved of Richard, which is conveniently
forgotten when people talk about his sexuality.
He destroyed *SHENE* after she died of the plague here in 1394.
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*SHENE* (Shining or splendour because it was so fine)
http://www.camelotintl.com/heritage/counties/england/surrey.html
. "Throned in celestial *SHENE* " --Milton.
. "His shoulders, *FLEDGE* with wings." --Milton.
______________ *An HEIR and No HEIR*
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. T O T H/E/ O /N/ LIEB/E/G_ E__ TTER *oF* THES /E/ IN
. \S\U I N/G/ S /O/ NNET ß MRW \H\ ALLH *A* PPI_/N/ ESS
- \E\A N/D/ T /H/ ATET/E/RNITI___\E\ PRO *M* IS_/E/ DBYO
_ \U\R/E/ V /E/ RLIV/I/NGPOETW_ \I\ SH_ *E* T_/H/ THEWE
_- \L L/ W /I/ SHIN/G/ADVENTURE \R\ IN ____ /S/ ETTING
__ \F/ O /R/ THTT . . . . . . . TOTH
.
.
_________ <= lunar 28 DAYS =>
.
John Heywood's Proverbes (1546):
"The *MOON* is made of a *GREENE CHEESE* ,"
.
_________ <= lunar 28 DAYS =>
.
. \G\O O/D/ FRENDFO [R] IESVSSA [K] EFORBEAR
- \E\T/O/ DIGGTHED__[V] STENCLO [A] SEDHEARE
. \B L/ ESEBEYEMA [N] YTSPARE [S] THESSTON
. \E/ SANDCVRSTB [E] HEYTMOV [E] SMYBONES
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,
The labour of an age in piled *STONES* ,
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_____*STONES*
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_____*SONETS*
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Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid
*Under a STAR-Y-pointing PYRAMID* ?
Dear son of memory, great *HEIR* of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
. -- Milton (1630)
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. WE-EVER, JOHN, 1599
Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut and Newest Fashion.
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They burn in love, THY CHILDREN Shakespear [HET] them
Go, wo thy Muse, more NYMPhish brood BEGET them
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[HET], v. t. & i. To *PROMISE*. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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_______ /T/ OT __ [H] EONLIEBEGE TTEROFTHESEINSVINGS
______- /O/ NN _ [E T] SMRWHALLH APPINESSEANDTHATETE
______ /R/ NI___ [T(I)E] *PROMISED*BYOVREVERLIVINGPOET
_____ /W/ IS___ [H E T H] THEWELL WISHINGADVENTVRERIN
___________________ SETTIN GFORTH ______________TT
. T O T H/E/ O /N/ LIEB/E/G_ E__ TTER *oF* THES /E/ IN
. \S\U I N/G/ S /O/ NNET ß MRW \H\ ALLH *A* PPI_/N/ ESS
- \E\A N/D/ T /H/ ATET/E/RNITI___\E\ PRO *M* IS_/E/ DBYO
_ \U\R/E/ V /E/ RLIV/I/NGPOETW_ \I\ SH_ *E* T_/H/ THEWE
_- \L L/ W /I/ SHIN/G/ADVENTURE \R\ IN ____ /S/ ETTING
__ \F/ O /R/ THTT . . . . . . . TOTH
___ *E! O* NLIE_ BEGET[T]E ROFTHESEI
___ /N/ *S* UING SONNE[T]S M RWHALLH
__- /A/ p[P I* NES_ [S]EAND[T]HA__ \T\ ETERN
__- /I/ Ti[E]p*R* OM [I]SEDB Y OUR__ \E\ VER
__ /L/ IVi[N]gp *O.E* [T]WI[S]HETHTH__ \E\ W
_- /E/ LLWi[S]hing - [A]DV[E]NTURERI_- \N\
- SETTIn GFORT HT[T]
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. "Dear son of MEMORY, great *HEIR of FAME*,
. Under a STAR-y-pointing *PYRAMID* " -- Milton (1630)
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_________ The Nexus of the Sonnet eYes:
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_________ Sonnet 148
O me ! what *EYES* hath loue put in my head,
Which haue no correspondence with true sight,
Or if they haue,where is my iudgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright ?
If that be faire whereon my false *EYES* dote,
What meanes the world to say it is not so ?
If it be not,then loue doth well denote,
Loues eye is not so true as all mens:no,
How can it? O how can loues eye be true,
That is so vext with watching and with teares?
No maruaile then though I mistake my view,
The sunne it selfe sees not,till heauen cleeres.
. O cunning loue,with teares thou keepst me blinde,
. Least *EYES* well seeing thy foule faults should finde.
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http://www.masoncode.com/Great%20Seal%20Sonnets.htm
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A nice pattern emerges if
the sonnets are written out
in boustrophedon [ *OX PATH* ] style:
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*Under a STAR-Y-pointing PYRAMID* -- Milton (1630)
.
---------- *SONET EYES* (of God)
(Sonnets with the word eye or eyes in them.)
http://www.rapunzelgifts.com/eyegod.html
...
154-------------- * 154
153------------- 0 0 152
149------------ 0 * * 151
148----------- 0 * * * 145
140---------- 0 0 Y * * 144
139--------- 0 * 0 * * * 134
127-------- 0 * * 0 * 0 0 133
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125------- * * * * 0 * 0 * 118
109------ * * * * 0 0 * * * 117
108----- * * 0 * 0 * * * * * .99
88----- 0 * * * * 0 * 0 * * * .98
87---- * * * * 0 * 0 * * 0 * * .76
63--- * * * * * * 0 * * * * * * .75
62-- 0 0 * * * * 0 0 * * * * * 0 .49
34- * * * * * * * * * 0 * * 0 0 * .48
33 0 * 0 0 0 * * * 0 0 0 * * 0 * 0 .18
1 0 0 * * 0 * 0 * 0 * * * * 0 * 0 0 .17
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Peter Farey wrote:
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<<As I have explained before, Sonnet 125
tells us that the author was an atheist.
.
Line 3 - Or laid great bases for eternity,
.
Commentators, take the 'great bases' to be either physical
ones - e.g. for those pyramids or columns - or symbolic, as
for his poetry, or some unknown deed of valour.>>
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Sonnet 125 lays the base for
a *STAR-Y-pointing PYRAMID*
of 28 Sonnets from 127 to 154.
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The 126th Sonnet is not a Sonnet.
(It's an ode to Oxford's dead 'sonne')
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O thou, *MY lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle *GLASS* , his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
[T]hy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
[I]f Nature, *soVEREign* mistress over wrack,
[A]s thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
[S]he keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
{M}ay time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
{Y}et FEAR her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
(S)he may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
(H)er audit (though delayed) answered must be,
(A)nd her quietus is to render thee.
.
*MISHA* (Russian: Миша) diminutive for Russian "Mikhail"
*SAIT* : He knows (French)
*MY ATIS*
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"Four Epytaphs made by the Countes of Oxenford,
after the death of her young Sonne, the Lord Bulbecke, &c."
.
Idall, for *ADON*, ne'er shed so many tears:
Nor Thet' for Pelid: nor Phoebus, for Hyacinthus
Nor for *ATIS*, the mother of Prophetesses:
As for the death of Bulbecke, the Gods have cares.>>
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The other 153 sonnets form a pyramid
with the 28 "Dark (Death) Lady sonnets" at the
top and the 17 "marriage sonnets" at the base.
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Art Neuendorffer