The Greek dance usually took the form of those slow measured movements which Simonides described as “silent poetry”.
Dancing in ancient Greece. Cubistic, spheristic and stage dances.
Tag: Cultural history
The Owlers of Romney Marsh, and the ancient export smuggling of wool.
The Owlers sold wool out of England and secretly shipped it at night from the shores of Kent and Sussex.
The Town-Hall of Cologne on the Rhine, Germany 19th c..
Germany Romanticism. Cologne and the legend of the fight with the lion of the mayor Hermann Gryn.
The Tuscan Stradivari. A short account of a Violin.
The “Tuscan.” A short account of a Violin by Stradivari. Made for Cosimo III de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Dated 1690.
Portrait of MME or a Lady 4 from the painting by Giovanni Boldini.
Belle Époque. Portrait of a Lady by Giovanni Boldini at l’Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889.
Hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent. Elizabethan England.
Reception hall of Boughton-Malherbe, County of Kent at the time of Elisabeth 1573. English Renaissance. Tudor period.
The Illuminati and their era. Imitations of Illuminism. Freemasonry.
The Illuminati and the Freemasons. Freemasonry and the French Revolution. The Order of Perfectibilists.
The sword of James Graham, 1. Marquess of Montrose.
The sword of James Graham given by Charles I.
English roses around 1900: history and varieties
English roses: history and varieties
Gentleman Gipsy in wayside camp and caravan, 1891.
Leaves from the Log of a Gentleman Gipsy in wayside camp and caravan, 1891.