Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts

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Read more: The story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, the blind pianist, singer and composer who inspired Mozart When is St Cecilia’s day celebrated? These women were the virgin daughters of the Fire and were called Inghean au dagha; but, as fire-keepers, were Breochwidh. The Brudins, a place of magical cauldron and perpetual fires, disappeared when Christianity took hold. "Being in the Brudins" now means in the fairies. Brigid's shrine at Kildare was active into the 18th century. It was closed down by the monarchy. Originally cared for by nineteen virgins, when the Pagan Brigid was Sainted, the care of her shrine fell to Catholic nuns. The fire was extinguished once in the thirteenth century and was relit until Henry VIII of England set about supressing the monastaries. (8) Sister Mary Minchin, a Brigedian nun at Kildaire relit the flame on Febuary 2, 1996 and the intention is to keep it burning perpetually once again. Ryersson, Scot D.; Michael Orlando Yaccarino (October 2009). The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0-8109-4815-X. The other names are old Gaelic names: Brighid-Muirghin-na-tuinne, Brighid Conception of the Waves; Brighid-Sluagh (or Sloigh), Brighid of the Immortal host; Brighid-nan-sitheachseang, Brighid of the Slim Fairy Folk; Brighid-Binne-Bheule-lhuchd-nan-trusganan-uaine, Song-sweet (literally: melodious mouth'd) Brighid of the Tribe of the Green Mantles. She is also called Brighid of the Harp, Brighid of the Sorrowful, Brighid of Prophecy, Brighid of Pure Love, St. Bride of the Isles, Bride of Joy and other names. Aona is an occasional and ancient form of Di-Aoin, Friday and Luan of Diluain, Monday." Characters based on Casati were played by Vivien Leigh in the play, La Contessa (1965) and by Ingrid Bergman in the movie, A Matter of Time (1976).

Pay your homage chearful hearts, Greet the Patroness of Arts. With song your tribute to her bring, Who best inspires you how to sing; None better claims your lays than she Whose very soul is Harmony. O happy those whose art can feast So just, and so refined a taste. —Anonymous birthday ode for Princess Anne (1701) Mershman, Francis. "Feast of the Patronage of Our Lady." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 11 November 2016Casati is also the namesake of the Marchesa fashion house started by British designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig. The New Kingdom society that Hatshepsut ruled over was deeply conservative; women were not supposed to lead. But after the death of her husband, the pharaoh, around 1479 B.C.E, Hatshepsut positioned herself as regent to her young stepson, Thutmose III. Six years later, she named herself pharaoh and made a strategic move to consolidate her authority through art. In 2013, Italian publisher Rizzoli Libri published biographical graphic novel La Casati: La musa egoista by artist Vanna Vinci. Translation has been published by Dargaud in France. English translation has been available from Europe Comics since 2015 with the title Casati: The Selfish Muse.

McGee, Eugene (4 October 2010). " 'Rules' critics must look at bigger picture". Irish Independent . Retrieved 4 October 2010.Boxer, Sarah (20 November 1998). "PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Surreal, But Not Taking Chances". The New York Times. Stroik believes budgets should allow artists to work with the best materials available and that churches could easily offer competitions “in which the artist is straining to build the most majestic exterior, the tallest interior, the most spiritual iconography and the most beautiful building possible. Works of art should be out of the ordinary, of the highest artistic standard and with the largest budgets. They are like the expensive ointment the woman in the Gospels anoints Christ’s feet with, not just some cheap oil bought from the drugstore.” (3) Establish a Sacred Art Academy at a University Sägmüller, Johannes Baptist (1913). "Patron and Patronage". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. This is the reference for the Canon law section. In 2021, singer, songwriter and actress Lady Gaga referenced Casati in one of her pictures of the photoshoot from the December British Vogue/November Vogue Italia issues.

In 1998, John Galliano based his spring/summer Christian Dior collection on her. Gowns from this collection have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute. Casati served as inspiration for another of Galliano's ensembles created for his autumn/winter 2007/2008 Bal des Artistes haute couture collection for Dior.

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Many Barmakids were patrons of the sciences, which greatly helped the propagation of Indian science and scholarship from the neighboring Academy of Gundishapur into the Arabic world. They patronized scholars such as Jabir ibn Hayyan and Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. They are also credited with the establishment of the first paper mill in Baghdad. The power of the Barmakids in those times is reflected in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights; the vizier Ja'far appears in several stories, as well as a tale that gave rise to the expression "Barmecide feast". The references in the Carmina Gadelica to the serpent coming out of the mound on Latha Fheill Bride from these older associations; that she may be a Fomorian Earth goddess. (3) Sarasvati, Hindu goddess of learning and the arts, especially music. First appearing as the personification of the sacred river Sarasvati and also identified with Vac, the goddess of speech, she is later named the consort, daughter, or granddaughter of the god Brahma. She is regarded as the patroness of art, music, and letters and as the inventor of the Sanskrit language. She is usually represented as riding on a goose of pure white that is able to undertake long flights and as holding a vina (any of several stringed instruments of India, including the lute) and a manuscript or book. In modern times her mount has frequently been represented as a swan. Sarasvati is worshipped at the advent of spring (January–February), when her image is taken out in jubilant procession, but she is also invoked perennially and at examination times by students and by artists and performers of all kinds. Sarasvati is also popular in Jain and Buddhist mythology. and courtly politics could Mary and Anne appreciate the emphasis placed on their maintaining their sexual innocence. A special epilogue written for the court performance of The Faithful Shepherdess in 1670, most likely the work of John Dryden, points toward some of these ironies by invoking diplomacy and warfare, ideas entirely absent from the pastoral drama itself.11 The speaker of this epilogue, Lady Mary Mordaunt, would later play the jealous nymph Psecas in Calisto. She was only eleven years old at the time of the court production of The Faithful Shepherdess, yet the epilogue depends upon the idea that she and the other “little young ladies” of the court will soon be the objects of erotic ogling: When Princes in distress, would peace implore, They first take care to choose th’ Ambassadour, And think him fittest for a charge so great, Who best can please the King with whom they treat: Our Play they threaten’d with a tragique Fate, I, Sir, am chose for this affair of State, And, hope, what ever errors we confess, You’l pardon to the young Ambassadress. If not though now these little Ladies are, In no condition, to maintain a Warr: Their beauties will in time grow up so strong, That on your Court, they may revenge the wrong.12 When a defeated king seeks to make peace, he is careful to choose an attractive ambassador, so the speaker poses as an “Ambassadress” to the king on behalf of the young actresses, hoping that her beauty will induce him to forgive any “errors” in their performance. Charming and witty, this simile also had specific political resonance. Three years earlier, as everyone knew, Charles II had been a prince in distress, imploring peace from the Dutch, who had sailed up the Medway, burned thirteen ships at anchor, and towed away the Royal Charles, effectively ending the Second Dutch Naval War (1665–1667). As his ambassadors, the king chose Denzil Holles, a punctilious old parliamentarian, and Henry Coventry, a younger man who had served as a captain in the Dutch army in the 1650s and was therefore likely to be pleasing to the Dutch negotiators. One month after attending this performance, Charles signed a secret treaty with Louis XIV of France, his first cousin, committing both nations to a new joint war against the Dutch, an ill-conceived attempt to “revenge the wrong” of the earlier defeat. In the magical, perfumed world of the Stuart court, this epilogue turns the tables, with Charles now cast in the role of the victorious monarch and little Mary Mordaunt, pretty and precocious, appealing to him on behalf of his niece and her friends. The political Beannachtaí ar an gCeárta -- Blessings on the Forge! (5) A handmade sign for Saint Brigid (Bridget) at Kildare. Brigid and the sacred wells

Art patronage connects aesthetic taste with power. By purchasing paintings and sculptures, collectors become tastemakers, support artists’ careers, and—through portraiture—generate enduring images of themselves. Art can also serve diplomacy: When collectors host a political fundraiser in rooms filled with work by marginalized artists or give a world leader a portrait of themselves as a gift, they signal specific values and ambitions. By commissioning public buildings, churches, and museums, patrons create potent architectural spaces for preserving their legacies and that of their artwork.Dedication written by Marinetti, Filippo on Portrait of Marinetti (1911) by Carrá, Carlo and translated by Tisdall, Caroline and Bozzolla, Angelo in Futurism (Thames & Hudson; 1977); "I give my portrait painted by Carrá to the great Futurist Marchesa Casati, to her languid jaguar's eyes which digest in the sun the cage of steel which she has devoured." In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court, the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrate the pathos of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six, her troubled relations with her father and her sister (James II and Mary II), and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708 left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief ministers hastened her death. Monteiro, John (2006). "6. Labor Systems". In Bulmer-Thomas, Victor; Coatsworth, John; Cortes-Conde, Roberto (eds.). The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America. Vol.1: The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. pp.185–234. ISBN 978-0-521-81289-4. The decorous sentimental verses written by patroness and client during such visits hint at a platonic salon flirtation.