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The Ape And The Dolphin
The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables, it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century. The fable Following a shipwreck off the Greek coast, a pet monkey belonging to a mariner is rescued from drowning by a dolphin. On being asked whether he is from Athens, the monkey boasts that he belongs to one of the city's foremost families. The dolphin then enquires whether he has visited Piraeus (the Athenian seaport), but the monkey thinks that a person is meant and replies that they are the best of friends. Taking a closer look at his passenger, the dolphin realises that he has not rescued a human being and swims off, leaving the monkey to his fate. The fable closes with the assurance that the story is suitable for liars. Latin versions of the fable began with the explanation that it was a maritime custom to take along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Dor%C3%A9 - The Monkey And The Dolphin
Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: *Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media *Primeval (film), ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film *Gustav (film series), ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cartoons *Gustav (Zoids), Gustav (''Zoids''), a transportation mecha in the ''Zoids'' fictional universe *Gustav, a character in ''Sesamstraße'' *Monsieur Gustav H., a leading character in ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' * Gustaf (band), Gustaf, an American art punk band from Brooklyn, New York. Weapons *Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, dubbed "the Gustav" by US soldiers *Schwerer Gustav, 800-mm German siege cannon used during World War II Other uses *Gustav (pigeon), a pigeon of the RAF pigeon service in WWII *Gustave (crocodile), a large male Nile crocodile in Burundi *Gustave, South Dakota *Hurricane Gustav (other), a name used for several tropical cyclones and storms *Gustav, a streetwear clothing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Elizabeth Pipe-Wolferstan (1763-1845) also known as Elizabeth Jervis, was an English novelist and poet. Life Elizabeth Jervis was born in London in 1763 and spent her pre-marriage years in Leicestershire. Her father, Philip Jervis, was a successful silk-mill owner, and the family was comfortably seated at an estate in Netherseal. In 1796, she anonymously published a novel called ''Agatha; or a narrative of recent events''. Reviews were, perhaps, unjustly critical of a new novel by a new novelist. The same year, on her birthday, she married Tamworth lawyer Samuel Pipe-Wolferstan. She published nothing further until after his death in 1820. At some time in the early nineteenth century, she taught schoolchildren in Tamworth, including her niece, another Elizabeth Jervis. ''Agatha'' was translated into French, and, later, into Dutch, from the French edition. A Latin and French scholar, Pipe-Wolferstan wrote several slim volumes of poetry including the entertaining ''Fairy Tales in vers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.'' Chartwell Books, Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey, 292 pp. He was an influential forerunner of symbolism in the visual arts in the 1860s, and at the height of the symbolist movement in the 1890s, he was among the most significant painters. Art historian Robert Delevoy wrote that Moreau "brought symbolist polyvalence to its highest point in '' Jupiter and Semele''."Delevoy, Robert L. 1978. ''Symbolist and Symbolism.'' Editions D'Art Albert Skira, Geneva//Rizzoli International Publishing, Inc. New York. 247 pp. He was a prolific artist who produced over 15,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Moreau painted allegories and traditional biblical and mythological subjects favored by the fine art academies. J. K. Huysmans wrote, "Gustave Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Doré
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( , , ; 6January 1832 – 23January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image. He created over 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses, allowing very large print runs to be published simultaneously in many countries. Although Doré's work was popular with the general public during his life, it was met with mixed reviews from contemporary art critics. His work has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Désiré Ringel D'Illzach
Jean-Désiré Ringel, known as Ringel d'Illzach (29 September 1849 in Illzach – 28 July 1916 in Strasbourg) was a French- Alsatian sculptor and engraver. Biography He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris and was best known for his medallions, made of diverse materials (bronze, terracotta, stoneware and glass paste), portraying a vast array of the notable artistic, literary, political and scientific figures of his time. He never ceased to experiment with new processes for casting metals, incorporating new materials and developing ways to apply color. His vitreous enamel agglomerates had the appearance of precious stones with strange tonalities. Some of his masks, such as the one of Maurice Rollinat, are made of multicolored wax. He reproduced all of his works as engravings. Much of his work was inspired by music, including a series of nine allegorical statues representing the symphonies of Beethoven. A polychrome s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasbourg Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art
The Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) is an art museum in Strasbourg, France, which was founded in 1973 and opened in its own building in November 1998. One of the largest of its kind in France, the museum houses extensive collections of paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, multimedia and design from the period between 1870 (Impressionism) and today, as well as a wide range of pieces in its photographic library. It owns a total of 18,400 works. Numerous exhibitions are organized annually, showing either the works of a particular artist or a retrospective of an artistic genre. The art library of the municipal museums (''Bibliothèque d'art des musées municipaux''), the art book shop of the municipal museums (''Librairie d'art des musées municipaux'') and a multi-purpose auditorium for conferences, films and concerts are also found in the same building. The spacious roof terrace accommodates a museum cafe. Building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Labyrinth Of Versailles
The labyrinth of Versailles was a hedge maze in the Gardens of Versailles with groups of fountains and sculptures depicting Aesop's FablesAndré Le Nôtre initially planned a maze of unadorned paths in 1665, but in 1669, Charles Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains, each representing one of the fables of AesopLabyrinthThe work was carried out between 1672 and 1677. Water jets spurting from the animals mouths were conceived to give the impression of speech between the creatures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet Isaac de Benserade next to each fountain. A detailed description of the labyrinth, its fables and sculptures is given in Perrault's ''Labyrinte de Versailles'', illustrated with engravings by Sébastien Leclerc (1637–1714), Sébastien Leclerc. In 1778 Louis XVI had the labyrinth removed and replaced by an arboretum of exotic trees planted as an English landscape garden. Creation In 1665, André Le Nôtre planned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dev Virahsawmy
Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942 – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole. Early life Virahsawmy was born in Quartier-Militaire, Mauritius on 16 March 1942 to Appanah "Ramdass" Virah Sawmy and Damiyantee "Gouna" Pyndiah. He spent his early childhood in Goodlands, where he lost the use of his left arm due to polio and after the death of his mother he went to live with his grandparents at Beau-Bassin. He started his secondary schooling at ''Collège St-Joseph'' in Curepipe where he faced racism, hinduphobia and ableism from Franco-Mauritians and Coloureds and was relieved to complete the final years of his schooling at Royal College Port Louis. Virahsawmy then travelled to Scotland to study languages, literature and linguistics at the Edinburgh University. He was born Hindu, had most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fyler Townsend
George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) was the British translator of the standard English edition of ''Aesop's Fables''. He was the son of George Townsend (priest), George Townsend and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge -DCL 1876. He was Vicar of Barntingham, Yorks 1842-1857, of Leominster 1857-1862 and of St Michael's, Burleigh Street, Westminster 1862-1894.Harrow Register He was the last Clerical proctor for granting Marriage Licences in Doctors Commons and assumed the name "Townesend" in 1882. Although there are more modern collections and translations, Townsend's volume of 350 fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct ''moral'' at the conclusion of each story, and continues to be influential. Several editions were published in his lifetime, and others since. In 1860, Townsend also published a revised edition of ''The Arabian Nights'', "mostly founded on the version of Jonathan Scott (orientalist), Dr Jonathan Scott". In 1872, Townsend pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hardinge
George Hardinge (1743–1816) was an English judge, writer and Member of Parliament. Life He was born on 22 June (new style) 1743 at Canbury, a manorhouse in Kingston upon Thames. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Hardinge, by his wife Jane, daughter of John Pratt (judge), Sir John Pratt. He was educated by Woodeson, a Kingston schoolmaster, and at Eton College under Edward Barnard (provost), Edward Barnard. Hardinge succeeded to his father's estate on the death of the latter on 9 April 1758. On 14 January 1761 he was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took no B.A. degree, but in 1769 obtained that of M.A. by royal mandate. On 9 June 1769 he was called to the bar (Middle Temple), and soon had considerable practice at nisi prius. One of his friends at this time was Mark Akenside the poet. In 1776 he visited France and Switzerland. On 20 October 1777 he married Lucy, daughter and heiress of Richard Long of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, who survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lettice
John Lettice (27 December 1737 – 18 October 1832) was an English clergyman, translator, academic, and author. Lettice served as vicar of Peasmarsh, East Sussex. He was prebendary of Chichester Cathedral, chaplain to the Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton from 1804 to 1832, and was fellow and tutor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Staff report (November 1832). Obituary – Rev. John Lettice, D. D. ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Volume 102, Part 2; Volume 152 Life and career Lettice was born at Rushden in Northamptonshire. His father was Rector of Strixton and Vicar of Bozeat. His mother Mary (née Newcome) was the daughter of Richard Newcome, rector of Wymington. He attended Oakham School from 1752 until his admission to Sidney Sussex College in 1756. An inheritance upon his father's death allowed him to continue his studies. Lettice ultimately received a Doctor of Divinity. After earning a master's degree and winning the Seatonian Prize in 1764 for his poem called "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
