#Crosland

[empirearchives]

Art Confiscation and Transferrals During the French Revolution

A new source of art treasures was provided by the confiscation of church property and by the decision to transfer objets d'art from several royal palaces to the Louvre. A valuable collection of paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), was acquired from the royal palace at Versailles, but not without the resistance of the local municipality. Under the direction of a commission temporaire des arts, a collection of furniture, porcelain, and paintings of varying merit was assembled, thus converting the Louvre into a kind of warehouse. In the spring of 1796 the German visitor F. J. L. Meyer found one gallery of the Louvre open to the public. This was filled with a miscellaneous collection of objects ranging from scientific instruments to tables, and his impression was one of “indescribable chaos.” The gallery was closed later that year.

Under the Convention there began a systematic policy of confiscation of art treasures from territory conquered by the French armies. In 1794 the first convoy of paintings from Belgium arrived in Paris, providing a magnificent representation of the Flemish school. The Décade philosophique described this event as the arrival of the paintings in their “true country” where they would be displayed and appreciated. It was fitting that Paris should be the European metropolis of the arts.

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Source: Science in France in the Revolutionary Era, edited by Maurice P. Crosland, pp. 173-174

[milibae1923]

Old Labour relationships are always so strange :/

[kryptonbabe]

Invasion! Dave Crosland's lovely and bizarre rhymed short-story with a heavy feel of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

From Invader Zim #12 (2016)

[celebratetheclassics]

John Barrymore and Dolores Costello in When a Man Loves (Alan Crosland, 1927)

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[atlantes96]

💣 Kevin Crosland - 11.1.25

[precodesoul]

Ann Dvorak's publicity portrait for the film Massacre (1934)

[stijlw]

i read the marquis de sade reader selected+transl. by margaret crosland. repulsive and boring. i think i got more out of the biographical stuff, de sade's pleading letters to his wife requesting she send him biscuits in prison etc. read in preparation for tackling carter's sadeian woman at some point

[tomoleary]

David Crosland “Danger Mouse and Penfold vs Baron Silas Greenback” (1980s) Source

[gatutor]

Ann Dvorak-Richard Barthelmess "Masacre" (Massacre) 1934, de Alan Crosland.

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1964, civilization was thrown into havoc with the outbreak of an atomic war. ("The Old Man in the Cave", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[wdr2-rlbmut]

[majestativa]

Prison made Sade into a writer. He had been something of a writer ever since he wrote love  poems as a young man, as most educated people did, but rancour, loneliness and shortage of money turned him into a professional. As a result he never forgave his wife when she apparently neglected to remove the manuscripts remaining in his room at the Bastille after it was stormed. He felt that years of his life had been stolen from him twice over.

— Margaret Crosland, Selected Letters, on Sade, transl by W.J. Strachan, (1965)

[rwpohl]

цареубийца - assassin of the tsar, karen shakhnazarov 1991

[runcible-spoons]

I am beginning to suspect that there are some people on this webbed site that don't understand what capitalism means.

[rye-views]

The Jazz Singer (1927) dir. Alan Crosland. 6.4/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

If this ain't Krusty the Clown's life.

Wow, the first talkie, but also Al being the king of blackface.. For being a movie about learning about race, we really be being racist. I can't with how fast he put on the blackface and the wig too.