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Peter H.M. Brooks

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Dec 10, 2004, 4:43:24 PM12/10/04
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I am being frustrated by my memory - or lack of it.

I want to find the artist and name of a well known and fairly old painting.

It is in oil, realistically painted, but enigmatic in tone. It shows, on
the left, a youth holding a staff with a distinctive helmet on his head,
looking like a monsignior's hat but made of metal, a coppery colour. On
the bank opposite sits a woman with her naked infant, they are framed by
trees. In the background is a river, crossed by a bridge with a tower on
the opposite bank. The sky is dark with a storm threatning, but the
foreground is light and unclouded.

I'm sure that you have all seen the painting - can you let me know who
painted it and what its title is. For some reason I think it was painted
by Holbein, but I'm almost certainly wrong about that.

Any help gratefully received!

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a-breast, led the way as slow as a patrole--whilst my uncle Toby, in his
laced regimentals and tye-wig, kept his rank with my father, in deep
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Jiri Borsky

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Dec 10, 2004, 6:47:07 PM12/10/04
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Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>
> I am being frustrated by my memory - or lack of it.
>
> I want to find the artist and name of a well known and fairly old painting.
>
> It is in oil, realistically painted, but enigmatic in tone. It shows, on
> the left, a youth holding a staff with a distinctive helmet on his head,
> looking like a monsignior's hat but made of metal, a coppery colour. On
> the bank opposite sits a woman with her naked infant, they are framed by
> trees. In the background is a river, crossed by a bridge with a tower on
> the opposite bank. The sky is dark with a storm threatning, but the
> foreground is light and unclouded.
>
> I'm sure that you have all seen the painting - can you let me know who
> painted it and what its title is. For some reason I think it was painted
> by Holbein, but I'm almost certainly wrong about that.
>
> Any help gratefully received!

Giorgione, The Tempest

Jiri Borsky
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Peter H.M. Brooks

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Dec 11, 2004, 1:58:18 AM12/11/04
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Thank you! Actually I did manage to find it - I was looking for 'storm'
which got me nowhere. I found an excellent reproduction.

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Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion
as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the
reverse of happiness. -- J.S.Mill Chapter II, Utilitarianism

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Dec 12, 2004, 8:49:41 PM12/12/04
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whatever the "reverse of happiness" might be.

the sarp

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