Today's the Day

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

When I was 12, my mother, who was head of the art department at a Swindon girls' secondary school, organised a school trip to Florence/Firenze and a male cousin of sililar age and I were allowed to tag along. The girls were all accomodared at the convent San Marco, home of Fra Angelico's Annunciation. My cousin and I were permitter to briefly view said artwork before being swftly ushered off the premises to stay with relatives of the Mother Superior in a parallel street, one remove further from the Arno.

- the painting used on the cover of the HCR recordings of Peter Ablinger's Verkundigung:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oops! That was bigger than I'd been expecting!

[Bryn]

Oops! That was bigger than I'd been expecting!

All the better to approach it.

[Pulcinella]

Oops! That was bigger than I'd been expecting!

But surely not the right annunciation?

This is the one that greets you in San Marco, probably my favourite artwork:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico#/media/File%3AANGELICO%2C_Fra_Annunciation%2C_1437-46_(2236990916).jpg

[Bryn]

But surely not the right annunciation?

This is the one that greets you in San Marco, probably my favourite artwork:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_...236990916).jpg

That's more lke it. I thought the one fg posted failed to quite match my memory of it, but it was 59 years ago, so I wondered if my memory was playing tricks. Your one definitely sparks recognition.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But surely not the right annunciation?

This is the one that greets you in San Marco, probably my favourite artwork:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_...236990916).jpg

Oops the second - the HCR cover is from a painting by Domenico Veneziano (as it says very clearly in the CD booklet )

[Pulcinella]

There is another Fra Angelico Annunciation, but it's now in the Prado in Madrid:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation_(Fra_Angelico,_Madrid)#/media/File%3ALa_Anunciación%2C_by_Fra_Angelico%2C_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth_-_main_panel.jpg

[greenilex]

Happy birthday to the Treaty of Rome.

Abrogating treaties is really not my thing - capisce?

[edashtav]

Si capisco, greenilex.

[greenilex]

Not that we have any muscle behind us, legal or illegal...in case people get the wrong idea

[Padraig]

There is another Fra Angelico Annunciation, but it's now in the Prado in Madrid:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annu...main_panel.jpg

Nice timing too for this week's COW. The first of Biber's Rosary Sonatas is The Annunciation.

[greenilex]

Most highly favoured Lady...or most highly flavoured gravy

[vinteuil]

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... I hope that after 365/366 days of this, ferneyhiccoughlove will be able to publish this as a Christmas Stocking Filler book - "Ferney's Year" - I think the takings shd be tasty. Will teamsaint be a useful publishing vector?


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[cloughie]

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... I hope that after 365/366 days of this, ferneyhiccoughlove will be able to publish this as a Christmas Stocking Filler book - "Ferney's Year" - I think the takings shd be tasty. Will teamsaint be a useful publishing vector?


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Or maybe a calendar to rival JC’s Blues Calendar!

[Richard Tarleton]

It was also one of the key "Rent Days", a time to pay rents, salaries, debts, and make new contracts and hold Hiring Fairs, such as the one in Far From the Madding Crowd.

A lovely one in Flotow's Marta - where the bored Lady Harriet Durham and her servant Nancy, seeing the servant girls trooping past on their way to be hired at Richmond Fair, dress up as servants and, calling themselves Marta and Julia, hire themselves out to a couple of handsome farmers (Plunkett and Lionel). Lionel (though he doesn't know it) is the long-lost Earl of Derby and has a ring to prove it, which is just as well as it turns out. I tried to find a suitable YouTube clip of the Richmond Fair scene but couldn't.