I erased my review, so this'll be images only, as always for costume purposes - mid 17th century Flemish.
VARIOUS MEN
JAN VERMEER (ARTIST)
hat
same weird sleeve cuffs
jacket sleev buttons
shirt
shirt cuffs short (along with triangular?)
more of short shirt cuff
shirt cuff folded back
coat has folded cuff
folded sheer cuffs of coat
jacket
cuffs and black band, semi-cuffs
no obvious belt, silver ring on forefinger
long ties on shirt
collar over jacket
collar
jacket with many large covered buttons
at home, robe/gown and loose shirt
gathered at shoudler, triangular cuff
adjustable cuffs with loops
SERVANTS
simpler grooming and protruding cuffs, tight jacket and extending sleeves
Shoes similar to modern, shirt protruding below vest
heels look modern, but trousers mid-calf
working men
RICH PATRON OF JAN VERMEER
fancy jacket and deep creased fancy cuffs
ruffles and fancy jacket
fancy jacket and buttons, pinkie ring with diamonds
rich man verus patronized artist
cowboy-like hat (and I thought Mr. Quaker oats was a cowboy!)
shoulders really out
Wide gown cuffs. What is cause os see-through texture in back? Modern facing?
gown - no shoulder seam, contrasting lapel stitch, very soft leather, kid?
multiple ornamental trims
waxed moustache when dinner guest
one man's large lace collar and rich man's wide ruffled cuff, at dinner
BUTCHER'S APPRENTICE AND BUTCHER
Butcher's floppy cap
Note cheap stitChing for working class garment
medium longish hair of young man
See butcher's cap and coarsness of cloth
Sunday best - many buttons
Monday, August 27, 2007
I, The Worst of All ('90)
[costume stills coming]
Director & country: Bemberg, Maria Luisa: Spain
Genre: Drama
Produced/distributed by: First Run Films
Recommended: Maybe
Rate as history: ?
Rate as cimena: 4
Time: 17th century
Location: Mexico
Ethnicity: Spanish
Religion: Catholic
Class: Aristocracy and middle
Occupation: Nuns, Archbishop, Viceroy
Best actors: Many
Writing: Very good
Costume: By Graciela Galan
Music: By Luis Maria Serra
Strenths: Cinematography, like a stageplay
Favorite lines:
50:45 Juana: “Tell the Archbishop I will study in the stars, in the grass, in the kitchen.”
_____: “I do no penance to reach heaven, I am not very pious either. But I am here, doing the only work I can offer to God, without shame: my poetry.”
1:02:20 Juana to girl novices on their last day of elementary school in the convent: “I would like you always to rememebr, that God did not give you perception and curiosity in vain.”
1:23 Archbishop to Juana: ‘Will you never stop scribbling?’
Favorite shots:
4:25 – Convent library, the books are covered with black gauze, suggesting dead knowledge
Favorite scene:
12:50 – after nuns leave the bishop’s entrance, his secretary fumigates with frankincense, where the entered!
Other comments: I almost didn’t review this film: ‘Oh, it’s about nuns, there will be too few men. Oh, it’s a feminist film. Since it’s advertised as erotic too, it’ll be lesbian.’ So, I dismissed it. Glad I didn’t. Based on a book by Octavio Paz
Story: Mexico’s archbishop and viceroy meet. Nuns told recent economic hard times must be overcome for the sake of the convent’s survival. Accountant nun produces play for assembled dignitaries. Ab is not pleased and considers the convent a ‘bordello’ [for allowing erudition and culture?] / AB meets two conservative nuns, and expressing his disatisfaction with the Abbess, gets their co-operation should the bishoriphic help the convent financially. / Nuns meet with Abbess to discuss situation. They are aware of the intrigues of the nun, and the Abbess asks Juana to run in the election to become the next Abbess. They know that since the viceroy likes their ways, they have to carefully resist the alliance of a few nuns with the ab. Juana replies that she cannot give up her writing. / Juana meets with the Viceroy’s wife and the VW explains that she too lives a very restricted wife in her position. / Entertainment: VC and VW plus a bishop discuss AB hatred of women. / Confession: Juana and her confessor discuss how she entered the convent in order to read. VW points out convent’s library, while the largest in America, has banned books. VW warns her of Inquisition. J shows her her scientific, intellectual, and musical treasures. / VW reads J’s poems while being painted / Five intellectual men and Juanes, separated by bars, together drink coffee and discuss classic literature. VW visits and prsents bird feather tiara to J / Abbess position vote. Conservative nun ‘wins’. Toys, pets and luxuries taken away. / VW visits J in her library. Nun suggests J give up a treasure. VW tells her to leave / Boy born to VW. / J tells WV about her testing in order to be admitted to university, when a 17 year-old lady-in-waiting. Then her kissing by a courtier. / V reads J’s erotic poetry prsented by VW / Nuns secretly doctor J’s poems / Bishops meet to discuss J’s poetry that might be lesbian – is it obscene? She has only one defender. / Clergy seal the library. Her confessor advises her to be less amorous. / V and ArchB have it out. V tells archb to let her back in library immediately. / VW kisses J erotically. J goes to hidden watch memento. / J’s confessor censors books of printer. Printer annoyed that ArchB sent him more Portuguese theological books that won’t sell. Intellectual Siquenza slips in a with his purchase the banned religious book, of chapter of which, explains Protestantism. The confessor catches him and discards it. / VW and her bot play ball. V arrives and explains he has been replaced. / J gives her last class to the child-novices. She is told by another nun, that on orders from the abbess she should continue her music lesson. / V comes and asks j if VW can publish her poems in Spain. They are picked up. / [I stopped writing down every scene – what’s the point?] The gist of the rest of the film is this… Her work is published. Natural and political calamaties ruin the convent. The wrath of God is blamed. She confesses her sins of pride and dies of the plague.
Comments, more: That the convent had preteen novices. What the hell? Hector Alterio, who plays the viceroy plays the adult male in the excellent drama about winter-spring romantic relationships, titled ‘The Nest' ('80).
Director & country: Bemberg, Maria Luisa: Spain
Genre: Drama
Produced/distributed by: First Run Films
Recommended: Maybe
Rate as history: ?
Rate as cimena: 4
Time: 17th century
Location: Mexico
Ethnicity: Spanish
Religion: Catholic
Class: Aristocracy and middle
Occupation: Nuns, Archbishop, Viceroy
Best actors: Many
Writing: Very good
Costume: By Graciela Galan
Music: By Luis Maria Serra
Strenths: Cinematography, like a stageplay
Favorite lines:
50:45 Juana: “Tell the Archbishop I will study in the stars, in the grass, in the kitchen.”
_____: “I do no penance to reach heaven, I am not very pious either. But I am here, doing the only work I can offer to God, without shame: my poetry.”
1:02:20 Juana to girl novices on their last day of elementary school in the convent: “I would like you always to rememebr, that God did not give you perception and curiosity in vain.”
1:23 Archbishop to Juana: ‘Will you never stop scribbling?’
Favorite shots:
4:25 – Convent library, the books are covered with black gauze, suggesting dead knowledge
Favorite scene:
12:50 – after nuns leave the bishop’s entrance, his secretary fumigates with frankincense, where the entered!
Other comments: I almost didn’t review this film: ‘Oh, it’s about nuns, there will be too few men. Oh, it’s a feminist film. Since it’s advertised as erotic too, it’ll be lesbian.’ So, I dismissed it. Glad I didn’t. Based on a book by Octavio Paz
Story: Mexico’s archbishop and viceroy meet. Nuns told recent economic hard times must be overcome for the sake of the convent’s survival. Accountant nun produces play for assembled dignitaries. Ab is not pleased and considers the convent a ‘bordello’ [for allowing erudition and culture?] / AB meets two conservative nuns, and expressing his disatisfaction with the Abbess, gets their co-operation should the bishoriphic help the convent financially. / Nuns meet with Abbess to discuss situation. They are aware of the intrigues of the nun, and the Abbess asks Juana to run in the election to become the next Abbess. They know that since the viceroy likes their ways, they have to carefully resist the alliance of a few nuns with the ab. Juana replies that she cannot give up her writing. / Juana meets with the Viceroy’s wife and the VW explains that she too lives a very restricted wife in her position. / Entertainment: VC and VW plus a bishop discuss AB hatred of women. / Confession: Juana and her confessor discuss how she entered the convent in order to read. VW points out convent’s library, while the largest in America, has banned books. VW warns her of Inquisition. J shows her her scientific, intellectual, and musical treasures. / VW reads J’s poems while being painted / Five intellectual men and Juanes, separated by bars, together drink coffee and discuss classic literature. VW visits and prsents bird feather tiara to J / Abbess position vote. Conservative nun ‘wins’. Toys, pets and luxuries taken away. / VW visits J in her library. Nun suggests J give up a treasure. VW tells her to leave / Boy born to VW. / J tells WV about her testing in order to be admitted to university, when a 17 year-old lady-in-waiting. Then her kissing by a courtier. / V reads J’s erotic poetry prsented by VW / Nuns secretly doctor J’s poems / Bishops meet to discuss J’s poetry that might be lesbian – is it obscene? She has only one defender. / Clergy seal the library. Her confessor advises her to be less amorous. / V and ArchB have it out. V tells archb to let her back in library immediately. / VW kisses J erotically. J goes to hidden watch memento. / J’s confessor censors books of printer. Printer annoyed that ArchB sent him more Portuguese theological books that won’t sell. Intellectual Siquenza slips in a with his purchase the banned religious book, of chapter of which, explains Protestantism. The confessor catches him and discards it. / VW and her bot play ball. V arrives and explains he has been replaced. / J gives her last class to the child-novices. She is told by another nun, that on orders from the abbess she should continue her music lesson. / V comes and asks j if VW can publish her poems in Spain. They are picked up. / [I stopped writing down every scene – what’s the point?] The gist of the rest of the film is this… Her work is published. Natural and political calamaties ruin the convent. The wrath of God is blamed. She confesses her sins of pride and dies of the plague.
Comments, more: That the convent had preteen novices. What the hell? Hector Alterio, who plays the viceroy plays the adult male in the excellent drama about winter-spring romantic relationships, titled ‘The Nest' ('80).
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Climate maps of India
# ___ - Climatic zones of India, from Wikipedia.
#__ - from 'maps of India'. That company produces a CD of various thematic maps - US$50 to overseas. Hey, I am learning how to use my Mac. Turns out that if I click and drag it'll move to my desktop. Great! I discovered this, like many computer things, accidently.
#___ - from Stanford University. Obviously, political designations have changed.
# __ & bottom (last picture) -
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.learn.londonmet.ac.uk/packages/clear/thermal/climate/diversity/images/koppen_map.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.learn.londonmet.ac.uk/packages/clear/thermal/climate/diversity/climate_pop.html&h=503&w=630&sz=122&hl=en&start=51&tbnid=yO00yJBBCv5lmM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmap%2B%252B%2Basia%2B%252B%2Bclimate%26start%3D42%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Wow! Not *that's* a link! This map allows the viewer to look at a map of India, choose the target climate zone and then see it colour coded superimposition. It appears to not be immediately downloadable as a jpeg - so I finally taught myself how to do a selective screen capture. The website source is CLEAR, an organization promoting architecture.
What has this information got to do with an Anglo in Asia in the early modern period? Well, I doubt that much has changed in 400 years and I'd like to know more about trading destinations. There are other reasons, but this is the one relevant to this blog.
aloeswood leads
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwooda.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood1.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood2.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood3.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/cultivatedagar.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood1.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood2.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/agarwood3.html
http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/cultivatedagar.html
Assorted images
16th century, Alfonso de Albuquerque at the Museu Nacional de Arte, Portugal
1610-20 portrait of a European from Victoria and Albert Museum
1615-1618 Mughal Emperor Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaik to kings at Freer Gallery of Art
1517 hourglass from Museu Nactional de Arte, Portugal
Wallis Chatterton from where I don't know
Map of Macao from Bibliotheca Público de Évora