“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.” Albert Einstein var sc_project=6406498; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="7164932a"; Tumblr (3.0; @cjonie)http://cjonie.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dee58eac899b9eb4a083734fffddf866/tumblr_mlr7trGT571qfg4oyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Almost all medieval feast foods were conveyed to the mouth by elaborate, and often elegant, finger choreography…However, both pinky fingers were extended, never touching food or gravy or sauce, reserved as spice fingers. Dipped into the salt, sweet basil, cinnamoned sugar, or ground mustard seed, then raised to the tongue, the spice fingers displayed a feaster’s digital finesse while adding another sensual pleasure: touch of food’s texture.</p> <p>Some modern polite extensions of pinky fingers, serving no physical pur­pose, are cultural remembrances of medieval spice fingers. In fact, a medieval clerical encouragement for use of the fork was to eliminate the pleasure of touch. The fork was generally ignored until the late 16th century as a super­fluous and foppish metallic intrusion between sensual food and willing mouth. </p> <p><em>-H<span>istorian Madeleine Pelner Cosman</span></em></p> <p><strong><span>image: </span></strong><span>The </span><em>Marriage</em><span> Feast At </span><em>Cana,</em><span> traditionally attributed to Hieronymus </span><em>Bosch</em></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/49428252335http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/49428252335Thu, 02 May 2013 11:47:56 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/17e7318bb7dd1ee9dca4416601132fb7/tumblr_mkq1r26ikx1qce9fso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Claude Monet - Poplars on the Banks of Epte</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/47095366352http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/47095366352Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:18:38 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3f5b31ad630c6eac3582b41a84f31eac/tumblr_mjpl79ddd31rbuhr4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“The Lost Love”, Auguste Toulmouche.</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/45490088479http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/45490088479Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:09:52 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/770245c4ced9e5064704a4b30d58143d/tumblr_mj5we315Kh1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Paul Sérusier, Woman in a Street, 1891</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/45269684826http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/45269684826Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:13:47 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcz92okmYU1qbbmero1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Montague Dawson, <em>A Roll to Loo’ard</em>, 1956</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/35903121132http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/35903121132Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:19:00 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbtvd9rXTr1qce9fso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jan Vermeer - <em>The Art of Painting</em> [1666-68]</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33487809736http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33487809736Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:48:45 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma8n8uajOe1qfg4oyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 | </em>by Sir John Everett Millais1878, part of the <span class="mw-redirect">Royal Holloway</span> picture collection</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33230226901http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33230226901Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:54:11 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9e6b5QzWF1qizpqvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><em>Portrait of a Young Woman</em>, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun</span></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165457269http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165457269Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:25:21 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9qd3nlp401qizpqvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><em>Biondina</em>, Lord Frederick Leighton</span></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165425427http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165425427Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:24:47 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mam769JmSj1qizpqvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span><em>Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress</em>, Charles Courtney Curran</span></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165271007http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33165271007Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:22:01 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9uz0xXUcj1qb5e7io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p> <em>A Mother and Child Entering a Cottage</em>, watercolor by Helen Allingham, 1848-1926, British watercolor painter and illustrator known for her paintings of English cottages during the Victorian era.</p> <p> She illustrated two notable books, <em>The Homes of Tennyson</em> by Arthur Henry Patterson and <em>Happy England</em> by Marcus B. Huish. </p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154180681http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154180681Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:33:52 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma7ssnpGBo1qb5e7io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em> Dutch Street Scene</em>, oil on canvas, 1858, by Adrianus Eversen, Dutch, 1818-1897. This painting is in the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.</p> <p>  Eversen was popular during his life and exhibited at The Hague. His paintings have artistic and historic merit as they show Dutch people of all walks of life going about their day. He also accurately painted the architecture of Holland and specialized in cityscapes.</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154165109http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154165109Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:33:00 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mavu35ztuu1qb5e7io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Autumn</em>, oil on canvas, 1946, by John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge, British, 1905-1983. The painting is in the Arts Council Collection in London, England. </p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154137281http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33154137281Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:32:00 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m274ikwRio1qb5e7io1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em> Stitching the Standard</em>, detail, 1911, by Edmund Blair Leighton, British, 1852-1922, historical genre painter.</p> <p> Edmund was a son of Charles Blair Leighton, also a portrait and historical painter.</p> </blockquote>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33153876855http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33153876855Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:20:00 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ciijysDO1r29g9xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/vos_cornelis_de.html" target="_blank">VOS, Cornelis de</a></strong></p> <p>[Flemish <a href="http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/baroque.html" target="_blank">Baroque Era</a> Painter, ca.1584-1651]</p> <p><strong>Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos</strong><br/><span>c. 1622</span><br/><span>Oil on canvas, 78 x 92 cm</span><br/><span>Staatliche Museen, Berlin</span></p> </blockquote>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33153856736http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/33153856736Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:19:51 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbffpxgJ3s1qce9fso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="fn">Jan Steen -<em> The merry family</em>  <span class="mw-redirect">1668</span></span></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32941580129http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32941580129Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:44:00 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb61ieLQWx1r5xebio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p title="Oil painting">Winter landscape - Alexei Savrasov</p></p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32879193129http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32879193129Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:17:54 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxirw8CAi1rrnekqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saudade (1899). José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (Brazilian, Realism, 1850 -1899).</p> <p>A young woman laments an absent lover, reading perhaps a letter from him.</p> <p>Saudade is a Portuguese word that roughly translates as “the love that remains”—a recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It is a nostalgic longing. </p> <p>Almeida Júnior would become popular for painting rural figures, especially farmers and the caipira violeiro, the countrymen that are a kind of a symbol of the rural areas of the São Paulo state.</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32798640230http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32798640230Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:05:59 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb80sbkxRO1qce9fso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hieronymous Bosch - <em>The Ship of Fools</em> (circa 1500).</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32670789748http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32670789748Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:38:34 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mafvfyeXWH1qfijmro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fernand Toussaint (1873 - 1955) - The red hat</p>http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32517985195http://cjonie.tumblr.com/post/32517985195Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:13:29 +0200