Does BRIDGET paint still?
Art Neuendorffer
April 6, 1327, Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura
April 6, 1348, Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
April 6, 1483, RAPHAEL born/christened?
April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
April 6, 1528, DURER dies in Nürnberg
April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter Simone Peterzano
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE is born.
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Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
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April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to Peterzano
April 7, 1614, EL GRECO dies.
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April 6
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648 -BC- Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
6 -BC- Historical birth of Jesus Christ?
610 night the Koran descended to Earth [Monday before Palm S.]
1199 Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies
1327 Petrarch first sets eyes on Laura [Monday after Palm S.]
1348 Italian poet Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague
1483 Italian Raphael, [Raffaello Sanzio], born/christened?
1520 Italian Raphael, dies on his 37th birthday [Good Friday]
1528 German painter Albrecht Durer dies [Monday after Palm S.]
1580 6+ Kent earthquake badly damaged St Paul's in London
"to cassay the earthcrust at all of hours"
1584 Caravaggio apprenticed to Simone Peterzano of Milan
1584 Bridget de Vere's born. [Monday before Palm S.]
1588 Caravaggio ends apprenticeship to Simone Peterzano
1590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state, dies
1614 El Greco (Domeniko Theotokopoulos) dies
1722 Adm. Roggeveen discovers EASTER ISLAND on day before EASTER
1789 GEORGE WASHINGTON elected President [Monday after Palm S.]
1830 Mormons Founders Day
1843 Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
1874 Harry Houdini born [Monday after EASTER]
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Art Neuendorffer
Art Neuendorffer
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<<Recognized now as a peer of 17th-century masters Rembrandt and Vermeer,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) painted notoriously
provocative religious and classical tableaux, yet left few traces ("no
letters, no table talk, no notebook or treatise") of his life beyond his
art. Australian -born Robb, whose ex-pat tour-de-force Midnight in Sicily:
On Art, Food, History, Travel, & La Cosa Nostra took readers through that
fascinating island, has created an idiosyncratic but dazzling biography of
Caravaggio by exploiting almost every extant fragment, including a handful
of sightings by friends and enemies, and the scanty Italian police files.
More audaciously, Robb spreads through the life many pages on every known
canvas, leaving appropriately theatrical description in his wake. Robb's
Caravaggio--or "M," as he insists on calling the multimonikered and aliased
painter--was a violent man of "hairtrigger touchiness," who fueled the
passionate intensity of his painting with his professional and emotional
frustrations, managing to register raw life in a religious culture that
demanded, according to Robb, vapid holiness. Bisexual, he painted and loved
pubescent boys, and patronized the female prostitutes he used as models.>>
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1603, 31 August, Karel van Mander writes about Caravaggio in _Het
Schilderboek_ (1604):
<<There is also a certain Michelangelo da Caravaggio who paints wonderful
things in Rome. He has laboriously emerged from poverty by means of hard
work, tackling and accepting everything with foresight and daring, as is
done by some who do not wish to remain inferior through timidity and
cowardice. He is one who cares little for the works of others without at the
same time overtly praising his own. He holds that all works are nothing but
childish trifles, whatever their subject and by whomever they are painted
unless they are made and painted from life and that there can be no good or
better way of painting than to follow nature. He is a mixture of grain and
chaff: indeed he does not continuously devote himself to this study but when
he has worked for a couple of weeks he swaggers about for a month or two,
his sword at his side and a servant behind him and goes from one ball game
to another ever ready for a duel or a scuffle so that it is almost
impossible to get to know him.>>
1604, 24 April, Caravaggio is charged with throwing a plate of artichokes in
the face of Fusaccia, a waiter in the 'Inn of the Moor' in Rome.
1605, 1 September, Caravaggio hurls stones at the windows of Prudenzia Bona,
his forme landlady.
1606, 29 May, A brawl takes place, four men on each side after a ball game
in the playing field of the Muro Torto. Caravaggio is wounded but he kills
Ranuccio Tommasoni of Terni.
1607, 7 April, _The Death of the Virgin_ (purchased by the Duke of Mantua on
the advice of Rubens) is exhibited in Rome.
1607/8 Caravaggio is in Malta where, he paints two portraits of the Grand
Master, Alof de Wignacourt, as well as _the Sleeping Cupid_ and _The
beheading of John the Baptist_
1608, 14 July, Caravaggio is received into the Order of the Knights of Malta
as a 'Cavaliere di Grazia'
1608, October, At the instance of the Head of the Treasury of The Order of
the Knight of Malta a criminal commission summons Caravaggio to appear on
December 1. Caravaggio escapes from the castle of S. Angelo and lands in
Syracuse where he names the well known cave near the city 'Dionysius's Ear'
and
paints _The Burial of St. Lucy_.
1609, 20 October, Caravaggio returns to Naples where he is attacked and so
grievously wounded at the door fo the German inn of the Cerriglio that news
of his possible death reaches Rome. Efforts are being made by Cardinal
Gonzaga to obtain the remission of Caravaggio's sentience.
1610, July, The painter boards a felucca for Porto Ercole, and is arrested
and imprisoned by mistake. <<Once released he could no longer find the
felucca, so that raging and almost demented he strode along that shore under
the merciless rays of the burning sun to try and catch sight of the ship
that bore his belongings.>> Caravaggio dies within a few days:
MICH.ANGEL.MERISIUS DE. CARAVAGIO
EQUES HIEROSOLIMITANUS
NATURAE AEMULATOR EXIMIUS
VIX. ANN. XXXVI. M. IX. D. XX
MORITUR XVIII JULY MDCX
Michel Angelo Merisi for Caravaggio
Knight of Jerusalem (i.e., Malta)
excellent imitator of nature
lived 36 years 9 months 20 days
died 18 July 1610.
(73 days short of his 37th birthday.)
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April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
April 6, 1528, DURER dies in Nürnberg
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Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE is born.
April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter
SIMONe PETERzano
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SIMON PETER Bar-Jona
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/05/28ceras.html
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/11/72denial.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/caravaggio/st_peter.jpg.html
(John 1:42) "You are SIMON, the son of Jona:
from now on you will be called CEPHAS (which is interpreted being a stone)"
SHACESPEARE
ERASE CEPHAS
CEPHAS: A SEER
King Richard III Act 5, Scene 1
BUCKINGHAM
THAT high All-Seer that I dallied with
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
to turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:
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April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to SIMONe PETERzano
April 7, 1614, EL GRECO dies.
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Art Neuendorffer
Art Neuendorffer
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312274742/absolutsearch05/103-851370
0-0025402
<<Recognized now as a peer of 17th-century masters Rembrandt & Vermeer,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) painted notoriously
provocative religious and classical tableaux, yet left few traces ("no
letters, no table talk, no notebook or treatise") of his life beyond his
art. Australian -born Robb, whose ex-pat tour-de-force Midnight in Sicily:
On Art, Food, History, Travel, & La Cosa Nostra took readers through that
fascinating island, has created an idiosyncratic but dazzling biography of
Caravaggio by exploiting almost every extant fragment, including a handful
of sightings by friends and enemies, and the scanty Italian police files.
More audaciously, Robb spreads through the life many pages on every known
canvas, leaving appropriately theatrical description in his wake. Robb's
Caravaggio--or "M," as he insists on calling the multimonikered and aliased
painter--was a violent man of "hairtrigger touchiness," who fueled the
passionate intensity of his painting with his professional and emotional
frustrations, managing to register raw life in a religious culture that
demanded, according to Robb, vapid holiness. Bisexual, he painted & loved
April 6, 1520, RAPHAEL dies on his 37th birthday.
April 6, 1528, DURER dies in Nürnberg
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Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 2
LUCIO: Does BRIDGET paint still, Pompey, ha?
April 6, 1584, BRIDGET VERE is born.
April 6, 1584, CARAVAGGIO apprenticed to painter
SIMONe PETERzano
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SIMON PETER Bar-Jona
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/05/28ceras.html
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/11/72denial.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/caravaggio/st_peter.jpg.html
(John 1:42) "You are SIMON, the son of Jona: from now on
you will be called CEPHAS (which is interpreted being a stone)"
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Cephas Burns: the Stone Layer
http://ecosystems.wcp.muohio.edu/studentresearch/rivers02/westernpondA/cepha
s.htm
<<Cephas (meaning stone) was born in Oxford in 1871, a grandson of freed
slaves. He learned the trade of masonry from his father, who had also worked
in stone. One of the things that makes the stonework on Western Campus
unique is the particular "cannonball" stones that were used for many of the
constructions. These were spherical stones of varying colors that Cephas
personally collected from the local Four Mile Creek, Harker's Run and
Collin's Run. A truly caring worker, Cephas washed the stones by hand as he
worked with them and allowed his mortar to set for thirty days, when the
State building code only required ten! The Stonemason not only built the
bridges on Western Campus, but engineered them as well. >>
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The Rock / The Cornerstone http://www.mgr.org/rock.html
<<In Matthew 16: 16-18 we read: Simon Peter said in reply,
"You are the Messiah, the Son of the Living God..... And so I say to you,
you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,...
In 1 Corinthians 10:4 we read:
...and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual
rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ.
In Romans 9:33 we read:
...as it is written: "Behold I am laying a stone in Zion that will make
people stumble and a rock that will make them fall, and whoever believes in
him shall not be put to shame."
In Ephesians 2:20 we read:
...built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ
himself as the corner stone.
In 1 Peter 2:8 we read:
...and "A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make
them fall." ...by disobeying the word...
The "Head" [Cephas] is one thing;
the "Foundation Rock" [Kephas] is another.
In John 1:42 we read:
Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,
"You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Kephas (or Cephas)."
"Kephas" & "Cephas" do not have the same meaning but their
spelling has allowed much latitude for confusion or outright deceit.
"CEPHAS" = head
"KEPHAS" = stone/rock>>
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SHAKESPEARE
ERASE KEPHAS
KEPHAS: A SEER
King Richard III Act 5, Scene 1
BUCKINGHAM
THAT high All-Seer that I dallied with
Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
to turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:
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April 6, 1588, CARAVAGGIO ends apprenticeship to SIMONe PETERzano
April 7, 1614, EL GRECO dies.
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Art Neuendorffer