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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Photo to come was a visionary painting, S.C.
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Italian police have funny outfits.
ReplyDeletenice Bloom County reference, though.
ReplyDeleteThat man, with the sunflower hat looks a bit shifty.
ReplyDeleteInteresting painting. He looks bored to me--- like he's pointing to the sunflower as if to say, "This? Really? You've got to be shitting me."
ReplyDeleteEarly days in the development of the water-squirty joke flower, wiley. The next frame in the sequence apparently shows it in use, and the sitter's nice moustache is all wet & droopy -- but the police haven't recovered that painting yet.
ReplyDeleteArtists can be real dicks.
Stolen Art has always had a rough life. I am glad he found his four decades.
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Read the opening sentence. Mark Steyn is in Australia.
Keep him.
Steyn? Australia? But he's a mendacious racist loudmouth -- he'll fit right SHUT UP SMUT
ReplyDeleteHa ha Steyn says forgive him if he's a bit out of touch, he's in Aussie. What about the other gazillions of gallons of santorum he has written when he was in North America?
ReplyDeleteHa ha Steyn says forgive him if he's a bit out of touch, he's in Aussie.
ReplyDeleteForgive him if he's a bit out of touch, he's an idiot.
When he's in touch, he's a wanker.
"No one's around--I can shag this flower and never be found out!"
ReplyDeleteMark Steyn is quickly becoming the favorite target of my hatred. He is just repulsive.
ReplyDeleteIt's Anthony Van Dyck, Court Painter to King Charles I of England,
ReplyDelete"Self-Portrait with Sunflower"
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Self-portrait with a Sunflower
1633
58.4 x 73 cm
oil on canvas
When Sir Anthony Van Dyck painted this confident self-portrait he was the court artist to King Charles I.
In 1633 Charles gave him a gold chain and a medal to honour Van Dyck's role as His Majesty's 'Principal Painter'. To ensure we don't miss the significance of the fabulous gold chain, Van Dyck lifts it towards the viewer. He also draws our attention towards the sunflower by pointing to it.
The sunflower was often used to symbolise the relationship between the king and his subject - just as the flowerhead turns towards the sun for life and light so the subject should turn to the monarch.
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abby
thanks i found the painting intresting and it helped me
Samantha From Nuneaton
hi, i think this picture is very interesting from a 12 year olds point of view anyway, as we are studing this in history, thank you!
Janice, Stockholm
Very, Interesting painting with a interesting background history.
bethany mcgill
i like this picher its in teresting to look at and it has really good feacures
chelsey from prestatyn
i like the shiney red jacket and the way the light hits it.
Danny Bracken from salford in manchester UK
it looks as if he is caressing the flowert and treating it as an equal to a girl
Nathan Aston, Manchester
This picture looks very expensive, the way the artist has capured the shimmer on Van Dyck's clothes is amazing.
alun jones stockport
great site , would like to use it as part of teaching in Autumn Term. How long is it going to be on line?? Thanks alun
Beatrice (USA)
Hello: the explanation you provide, that Van Dyck is representing his loyalty to the king, has in fact been found to be doubtful or possibly incorrect (in recent Van Dyck scholarship). By pointing to the golden sunflower, Van Dyck underscores his artistic talent -- the art of mimicry-- which not only enabled him to represent Nature (the "golden" flower) but also the glittering artifice of his gold chain. Art-artifice-nature-and gold...all are at his fingertip!
Jim -- San Francisco
Hello: For many years, the location of the original of this painting was in doubt and I am not sure the Duke of Westminster version has been fully vetted. Any insight on this great painting?
Derek Kingsland from Bounds Green N London
I found this interesting and helpful, thank you very much
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