Sunday, February 17, 2013

February 17, 1493, 1913, 2013 Random Digest



1913 Armory Show in NY was a hundred years ago today. NPR had a quick piece about that.

TAL was devastating this morning. First of a two part on High school kids, guns, school, @ Harper, IL ,a Chicago neighborhood. Shocking and scary.

I also watched/listened to upwithchrishayes where they branched out from the state of the union addresses and talked gun reform,  immigration and the minimum wage.
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As of, Sunday 17th February, 1493, Columbus was still out to sea, weak from the storm:
"'On the night of Saturday, 16 February, I reached one of these islands, but could not tell which on account of the storm. I rested a little that night, for I had not slept since Wednesday or even been to bed and my legs were crippled by continuous exposure to the high winds and seas, and I was suffering from hunger also.'"

from The Life of the Admiral By His Son, Hernando Colon translated into english by JM Cohen in The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus The Penguin Group 1969


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The estimated date that Andrea Mantegna was working on his Triumphs of Caesar at the Palazzo di San Sebastiano in Mantua is 1484-94. The collection is now part of the Queen of England's Hampton Court collection. It was made for Ludovico Gonzaga, the Marquis of Mantua who Mantegna served for many years. Pope Innocent VIII liked the artist so much he had the Marquis send him. The Marquis did the great honor of sending his son to deliver this artist for the pope who commissioned him in 1488 to paint the newly completed walls of a small chapel. This was in the new Belvedere Palace that the pope had just finished. But this chapel was destroyed in the 18th century by Pius VI who wanted a museum to replace it. Giorgio Vasari and his editors/translators - the Bondanella's Peter and Julia here - have many interesting stories about those people and times and places.

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