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This depicts a true story. The Medusa foundered on her way to Senegal.
The sailors made a raft for 149 of the passenfers and then the sailors got into
boats and started to tow the raft behind them. However after a while they tired
of the slow pace they were making and cut the raft free, and rowed on alone.
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Left, View of the interior of the coliseum at
Rome, by Marius Granet, c. 1804.
This charming watercolour on the right was painted around
1780 and shows Marie Antionette's dressmaker Rose Bertin. She was born in Picardy in 1741 in a humble family. She trained as a dressmaker, then moved to Paris. By 1770 she was able to open her own shop at rue Saint-Honoré.
From the mid 770s she was Marie-Antoinette's principle clothes stylist. She always allowed Maris-Antoinette to wear the new styles first. She attended the queen twice a week. In 1792 (the year of the revolution) she left France, but returned in the late 1790s. She died in 1813.
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Both of the paintings left and right
are by Abraham Mignon . The one on the left is
titled Flowers in a crystal vase, and on the right A bouquet of flowers. He is
not very famous, but I find his paintings charming and so detailed even down to
tiny insects crawling on the flowers. |
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