#St Anthony's Guild

[emjee]

As previously mentioned I am not particularly attached to either Steve Rogers or Bucky Barnes being Catholics HOWEVER if they are then the one thing that’s very important to me is that in the modern world they go to every ethnic Catholic street festival they run across. In Boston at the same time as St. Anthony’s feast? Shut up and don’t talk to me until we’ve gone to eat our weight in ravioli. Is it summer? Is there food? Is this event sponsored by The Guild Of Our Lady of The Holy Martyrs Star of the Sea Mother of the Eucharist Queen of Heaven? That’s where you will find them.

[dutch-and-flemish-painters]

Gerard Thomas - Painter's studio -

Gerard Thomas (1663–1721) was a late Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in studio and picture gallery interiors. He became a master in Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke in 1688–89, and was dean twice. Many of his paintings reflect a trend in Antwerp painting around 1700 that shows artists—often historical masters from earlier in the century like Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck or Jacob Jordaens—in their studios, surrounded by paintings and sculptures, and teaching the craft to a young apprentice. The masters are often only hinted by the works of art pictured in the painting itself, however.

[longlivebatart]

Jordaens' The Holy Family with Shepherds

Welcome to Long Live Bat Art, the podcast for art lovers who don’t see art as much as they want to. My name is Sydney and thank you for taking this slow tour through an art gallery with a casual art lover. Today, I’ll be talking about The Holy Family with Shepherds by Jacob Jordaens. I hope you enjoy.

Jacob Jordaens was born in May of 1593 in Antwerp. He was the son of a linen merchant and firstborn of eleven. His father was wealthy, so Jordaens likely received the benefit of exceedingly thorough schooling. He was fluent in French and knew mythology and the Bible. 

Jordaens didn’t make a studious trip to Italy, but he did study Italian painters such as Caravaggio and Titian, and he also drew from his own country via Peter Brugel the Elder. You might recognize that name from episode three. 

Jordaens was an artist of many mediums, including painting and tapestry making. His main patrons were churches and wealthy people, but late in his career he got some royal commissions. 

He was taught by the same man who taught Rubens, Adam van Noort. Jordaens was admitted as a master to the St. Luke’s Guild in his home town in 1616, and married van Noort’s daughter Catharina in that same year. 

Jordaens was known for his scenes with crowds of boisterous and healthy people in them and warm, glowing colors. He also painted more allegorical pieces based on Flemish sayings, such as “As the old sing, so pipe the young,” which more or less means that bad influence from the older generations leads to bad decisions in the younger. Later on in his life, as Jordaens’ health deteriorated, his paintings lost their vitality as well, defaulting to cooler and duller colors. 

Jordaens also assisted Rubens on a few occasions, including on a project for Cardinal Infante Ferdinande and one for Philip the fourth’s hunting cabin. Jordaens even completed some artworks Rubens left unfinished before his death. After Rubens and Anthony van Dyck died, Jordaens was largely considered the best Flemish Baroque painter of that time. Jordaens’ way of representing peasantry influenced Jan Steen, who we covered in the second episode. 

Jordaens died in October 1678. One hundred ninety seven of his paintings survive. 

On to the painting.

The painting depicts the Virgin Mary, baby Jesus, and three men. Strangely, the three men are most likely the shepherds who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Joseph is nowhere to be found.

The Virgin Mary is depicted like no other depiction of her I’ve ever seen- she has her usual blue veil and pale pink under veil and white clothes, yes. But she has one breast exposed. It’s to feed her child. I’ve never seen any depiction that shows Mary as not the Mother of God, but just a mother. She’s holding her exposed left breast between her fingers to steady her nipple for Jesus. Jesus Himself is leaning towards the offered breast, his hands clasped in front of him in a prayer position. Jesus is also depicted in a very human way. He’s a chubby baby with fat rolls on his stomach and chunky legs. He has either very fine hair or no hair at all. The shadows on his legs and the deeper shadow along his back are blue-toned.

The shepherd on the right of the image is holding a short, lit candle and a bowl of what looks like porridge or a similar food. The candle’s glow is much stronger than what an actual candle’s would be. Even though it’s level with Mary’s breast and Jesus’ head, its light reaches Mary’s face and down to her lap. Jesus is fully illuminated and his mother almost-fully. That shepherd is wearing a blue robe, his much darker and less vibrant than Mary’s signature veil. He’s looking at Jesus fondly and reverently. He has a wiry long brown beard and bushy mustache connected to it. 

The second shepherd is behind Mary and is either starting a small fire or just warming his hands over the glowing coals. He looks to be the youngest of the shepherds- he still has roundness in his face. His clothes are difficult to make out because the background is so dark. But he, too, is looking at Jesus and Mary. His expression is almost eager and definitely happy.

The third and final shepherd is seen in profile. He’s holding his crook and has a hat of what looks like straw. He has soft light brown or even blond hair and is looking at Jesus with his head tilted. He has a gentle expression on his face that looks like a combination of awe and fondness. He’s wearing a deep red robe. 

The skin of all the figures, with the exception of the second shepherd because he is illuminated by the light thrown by the red-hot coals, is pale and rosy in the cheeks. Mary and Jesus even have rosiness in their chins.

Now for my thoughts. 

The painting is gorgeous, but leaving Joseph out is an odd statement. He’s as important to Jesus as Mary is- Joseph is his human father. But I choose to believe he just got off a shift of baby watching and is taking a much-needed and well-deserved nap on some hay. 

The candle must be super-powered because of its reach, and I know most of that is just practical. Most artists like to have a strong light source, though not many use a candle or other visible one. It’s like the Lord of the Rings joke from the director- where’s the light coming from in the night scenes? The same place as the sound track. 

The skin, especially Jesus’, is fascinating to me. Jesus is shown like any other baby, with the fat and rolls and lack of hair. His skin is so life-like. 

It’s also refreshing to see a depiction of the shepherds after they gave their gifts. They didn’t just give them and peace out. They stayed, helping the couple who was probably exhausted and scared out of their minds. All first parents are, even without the whole ‘Son of God’ responsibility. They now have a completely helpless new human being that is dependent on them for everything, even holding up his head when he’s held. 

The approachability in the scene is what most likely drew me in. It just reminds me of something that’s something hard to remember- that Jesus was human, as well as divine. This very human moment, before he eats, is as approachable as I’ve ever seen Jesus. He isn’t an adult with followers, he’s a baby with his mother. 

As a Roman Catholic, it’s always been something hard to wrap my brain around- that Jesus was both completely human and completely divine. Nothing can be 200% of anything. But it’s what the Church teaches. Maybe it’s just something people say without believing, or even understanding. But that’s kind of the point of religion, isn’t it? To try to understand the mysterious, to try to know the unknowable. At least that’s what it means to me. Whenever there’s an aspect to my faith- or even my life- I don’t understand, I tell myself a simple truth: it’s ok.

It’s ok for me to not understand the entirety of the human experience. It’s ok for me to not understand a single part of my schooling or a tough math problem. But you know what’s not ok? To dismiss that experience as being unimportant or even wrong. Just because it’s not relevant to you doesn’t mean that it’s not relevant. There are people who depend on something you’ve never heard of. And pretending that thing doesn’t exist or saying that you don’t understand so why bother trying is a slippery slope to believing that only your experience and life is right. And that’s not a good position to have in life.

Other people exist, and especially people who you won’t understand. But unless they’re actively hurting someone or believing they should die, that’s ok. Not understanding isn’t wrong. Actively denying the existence of someone or something, however, is wrong. 

My challenge to you is this- try to find one fact about something you’ve never heard of. You can click around on the internet or open a random book in the library. When you do that, try to apply that fact to your everyday life. It could be a cool fact about geckos, so you share it with your loved ones. It could be a belief in a religion you’ve never experienced. So try to embody that belief, as long as it’s not hurting someone. When you broaden your horizons, you start to see that there's more to life than your experiences. That there’s a whole world full of things to learn, places to explore, people to meet, and experiences to try. So learn, explore, meet, and try. The world is waiting for you. 

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Review: West End Players Guild's Outsider Mulligan Is Sweetly Satisfying | Arts Stories & Interviews | St. Louis

click to enlarge Courtesy Photo Neighbors Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon’s path to love is equally charming and funny. West End Players Guild sticks with a working formula with the romantic and funny Outside Mullingar. The pleasantly engaging and genuinely warm Irish comedy features an imperfect couple who are easy to cheer for and fun to watch. The light play is a smart choice for the…

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Saint Anthony’s Guild / St Joseph USA

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Cooper Case Is Opened Before Judge,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 26, 1942. Page 2. ---- The trial of Lemuel Cooper, charged with the theft of $284 in cash and $121 in securities from 560 Princess Street, the property of St. Anthony's Guild, Paterson, N.J., opened this morning in county court with Judge J. C. Reynolds presiding. Cooper pleaded not guilty to the charge. 

T. V. Hammond, first witness to be called, said he was the agent in Canada for funds collected for the Guild. He testified Cooper and Mrs. Ethel Smith, who is also charged with the theft of the funds, and will be tried separately, were roomers at his home 560 Princess Street, last November.

On Nov 17, 1941, he told the court he had made out a deposit slip for $405. Overnight, he kept the money in a cardboard hosiery box under the mattress of his bed. In the morning, he arose, checked to see whether three envelopes, in which he had placed the money and securities, were still in the box. He then had placed the receptacle under the mattress of the bed on which his wife, Mrs. Catherine Hammond, was sleeping in the kitchen. 

“Did Cooper know you had the money,’’ asked W. F. Nickle, K.C., defence attorney. 

“Yes,” replied Mr. Hammond. "He saw it on the table on the night I was making out the deposit slip.’ 

Witness testified both Cooper and Mrs. Smith had come down the stairs and had seen the money.

The trial is continuing this afternoon. Crown Attorney T. J. Rigney, K.C., is prosecuting.

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Medieval Paternoster Beads and the Origins of the Rosary

From at least as early as A.D. 1000, rosaries, paternosters or similar strings of prayer beads have been a common accessory carried by men and women, old and young.

Indeed, the small round objects we know in English as “beads” were named from this practice; the root of the English word bead is the same as for the word bid, and originally meant “to pray or request.”

The practice of counting prayers using a string of beads is very old. There are legends of St. Anthony in the desert counting his prayers with pebbles in the third century, and a string of beads is preserved in Belgium that is said to have been buried with the saintly Abbess Gertrude (d. 659). Other religions use prayer beads as well, but we cannot be certain whether Christians, Muslims and Hindus invented the idea independently or borrowed it from each other.

Among the early mentions of prayer beads in England is the will of Lady Godiva. She actually did exist (although her naked ride through Coventry is mythical) and died in about 1041. She left to the monastery she and her husband had founded, “a circlet of gems that she had threaded on a string, in order that by fingering them one by one as she recited her prayers, she might not fall short of the exact number.”

From paternoster to rosary

(artistic depiction of 5 decade Marian rosary) 

The first prayer medieval Christians recited on prayer beads was the “Our Father” (in Latin, Pater noster) For those who could not read, reciting 150 paternosters was regarded as equivalent to reciting the 150 Psalms. The beads used for counting were called paternoster beads: usually a string of 10, 50 or 150 beads, with or without dividing markers.

As time went on, devout people began to create variations on this devotional practice, adding an Ave Maria (Hail Mary) or Gloria Patri after each paternoster, or simply saying 150 Aves as a “St. Mary’s Psalter.” Religious communities are recorded as praying “chaplets” of various sorts from at least the 13th century onward.

The Dominican Order claimed for many years that their founder, St. Dominic Guzman, was miraculously given the rosary in its modern form by the Virgin Mary in the 1200s. There is, however, no mention of the rosary in Dominic’s own writings, or in any of the writings about him, for at least 200 years after his death. The confusion seems to date as far back as the first printed rosary manuals in the late 1400s, but what led to the association of the rosary with St. Dominic is still not certain.

The first rosary guild or brotherhood was founded by Alanus de Rupe in Douai (then part of Flanders, now northern France) in 1470. A rather more famous one was founded by Jakob Sprenger in Köln (Cologne, Germany) in 1475, and the movement spread very quickly throughout Europe. Unlike many other religious guilds, rosary guilds cost nothing to join and did not require expensive annual dues. Women as well as men were admitted. The prayers were simple, and could be said at home or while working. You did not have to be able to read, nor did you have to purchase and use a special book, as many other devotions required.

Paternosters, and other devotions using beads or chaplets, also continued popular even after the invention of the rosary as we now know it. Before the English Reformation, for instance, King Henry VIII of England was given an elaborately carved boxwood paternoster by Cardinal Wolsey (which is on display at Chatsworth in England).

Chaplets — defined as non-rosary devotions using a particular form of bead string — are still very popular today, and many new chaplets have been invented over the years, such as the Chaplet of St. Michael and the Blessed Sacrament Chaplet.

The rosary devotion, too, has continued to evolve since it was formally fixed by Pope St. Pius V in 1569. The Franciscan Crown rosary, with seven decades for the seven joys of Mary, was invented in the 15th century. There are six-decade or Brigittine rosaries, and four-decade rosaries for the dead. In this century, the most notable development has been Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae in October 2002, which added five new mysteries for a new total of twenty.

Spiritual jewels

While the rosary as a devotion or form of prayer is well chronicled, much less attention has been paid to the history of the actual beads, how and where they were made, arranged, strung, decorated, and sold.

Depending on your station in life and your purse, your medieval rosary or paternoster could be a string of simple knots on a cord, or a string of beads of wood, bone, glass, semiprecious stone such as agate or jet, amber, silver, pearls, or even gold, emeralds, or sapphires. In general, medieval rosary or paternoster beads were a kind of personal jewelry, and followed the style of other jewelry of the time. Coral beads were especially valuable and popular, as coral was thought to be a good-luck charm against the “evil eye.”

The Our Father beads or “gauds” dividing groups of ten simple beads are often larger or more precious than the others. Rosaries and religious jewelry in the Middle Ages were often exempt from taxes and laws restricting rich clothing, so wearing an extravagant rosary could be an excuse for showing off your wealth and good taste, as well as your piety (real or not).

A string of medieval paternoster or rosary beads can take many forms. Many have the familiar loop or circle form, but others are straight lines. The most common number of beads is 50 (with or without gauds or additional beads), but there are also strings of 10, 15, 20, 33, 63, 72 and of course 150. Paintings or historical drawings may show strange numbers of beads such as 39 or 16, and it is often hard to tell whether these represent different devotions, or whether it is merely the whim of the artist, who may not have been too concerned about the exact number.

Medieval beads may be round or oval, decorated or plain, and are usually smooth rather than faceted. Some less common types of rosary use flat discs or rings instead of beads. While today most rosary beads are joined by links of metal chain, originally most were loosely strung on silk thread or ribbon, like a necklace.

Not all of these early rosaries had a cross or crucifix. Rosaries could also end in a silk tassel, or in a religious medal or small figure of a saint. The “drop” of a modern rosary, the short string of five extra beads ending with the cross, makes its first appearance in the 15th or 16th century, but does not become really universal until the 18th or 19th century. For example, the gold filigree rosary carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution has no “drop,” but has an elaborate gold cross hanging directly from the circle of fifty beads.

We also find pomanders or scent containers hanging from rosaries, along with heart medallions, tiny purses, flasks of holy water, relics of saints, good-luck charms, and pieces of secular jewelry such as brooches and rings. The Prioress in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales has a brooch with the words “Amor vincit omnia” (love conquers all) to attach her beads to her gown.

Rosaries and paternosters appear in many medieval and Renaissance paintings, often held in the hands, sometimes hanging in a wall. They are worn hanging from a belt, wrapped around the wrist as a bracelet, slung like a bandolier over one shoulder, or even as a necklace around the neck.

Many eminent preachers and saints have endorsed the rosary, used it themselves, and urged their followers to pray it frequently. The popularity of the rosary has endured and grown through the centuries, and today it is recognized by both Catholics and non-Catholics as an emblem of faith.

The rose & the rosary

Being made of rose petals is NOT how the rosary got its name. The word "rosary" originally meant "rose garden" or "rose wreath," and it came to be applied to a devotion involving repetitions of the "Hail, Mary" due to a legend: bystanders — actually robbers! — saw a young monk reciting "Hail, Marys" in the road when he stopped to rest. As each one dropped from the monk's lips, it turned into a rose, which was gathered up by the Virgin Mary standing nearby (the monk evidently didn't see her, but the robbers did). The Virgin showed her pleasure at the gift of prayers by weaving the roses into a garland for her head.

(Since this is a legend, of course, the story adds that the robbers immediately repented and hastened to a priest to confess their sins!)

Source: http://www.paternoster-row.medievalscotland.org/

[mrinalkantimajumder]

ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT 

On this day of 25th December, Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was born in Gorinchem, Habsburg, The Netherlands.

He was a painter and printmaker in etching and engraving. He was initially working in the style of the "Haarlem Mannerists", but in the 16th century altered his style in line with the new Baroque style that was then developing. He mostly painted historical subjects and some landscapes. He was an important teacher, who trained most of the Utrecht Caravaggisti.

Abraham was a pupil of Gerrit Splinter (pupil of Frans Floris), Joos de Beer.  Jehan Bassot (possibly Jean Cousin the Younger) and then under a Maistre Herry.

Along with Joachim Wtewael and Paulus Moreelse, he was one of the founders of the Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke (St Lucas-gilde). Many of Bloemaert's paintings were commissioned by Utrecht's clandestine Catholic churches.

Among his many pupils were his four sons, Hendrick, Frederick, Cornelis, and Adriaan,  Jan Aerntsz de Hel, Abraham Jacobsz van Almeloveen, Cornelius de Beer, Nicolaes van Bercheyck, Jan van Bijlert, the two Boths, the two Honthorsts, Leonaert Bramer, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Willem van Drielenburg, Wybrand de Geest, Nicolaus Knüpfer, Hendrik Munnicks, Frederick Pithan, Cornelis van Poelenburch, Henrik Schook, Anthoni Ambrosius Schouten, Robert Jansz Splinter, Matthias Stom, Herman van Swanevelt, Dirck Voorst, Quintijnus de Waerdt, Jan Baptist Weenix, and Peter Petersz van Zanen.

Bloemaert is represented in the following collections: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles;   Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy; Museum of Grenoble; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Royal Academy of Arts, London; University of Rochester, New York; Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts: amongst others.

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Further research into Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Hans Gillisz. Bollongier

Jan Davidsz. de Heem

De Heem was one of the greatest painters of still lifes in the Netherlands, combining a brilliance and harmony of colour along with an accurate rendering of objects: flowers, in all their variety; European and tropical fruits; lobsters and oysters; butterflies and moths; stone and metal; snails and sea shells.

I like how his still lifes included fruit pieces, vanitas still lifes and flower pieces. Some of his works are displays of abundance; others, only a festoon or a nosegay.

Often he would convey a moral or illustrate a motto: a snake lying coiled under grass; a skull on plants in bloom. Gold and silver cups or tankards are suggestive of the vanity of earthly possessions. Salvation is seen allegorically as a chalice amid blossoms, and death as a crucifix in a wreath. Sometimes de Heem painted, alone or with others, Madonnas or portraits in garlands of fruit or flowers.

Source of information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Davidsz._de_Heem

Hans Gillisz. Bollongier

Hans Gillisz. Bollongier or “Boulenger” (1600 – 1645) was a Dutch Golden Age still life flower painter.  (Painting of what Hans Gilisz supposedly looked like)

According to the RKD, little is known of his early life. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1623, and in 1675 his younger brother Horatio was named as his beneficiary. He was a specialist in bouquets of blooms. Paintings attributed to him that are not flower- or fruit still lifes are likely the work of his brother Horatio. He was an important influence on the later flower painters known as the “monogrammist JF” and “Anthony Claesz II”. In Karel van Mander's book, there were a set of rules to follow to create good paintings and good drawings. Bollongier developed his own style and still observed all of these rules. His paintings were very popular, but his work was not regarded as such by contemporary Haarlem painters. As a genre, still life painting was considered inferior to historical allegories.

I like Hans Gilisz’s style of his work and his ideas being brought to life almost by his paintings.

Source of information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gillisz._Bollongier

[jarvis-cockhead]

have accidentally eaten some mouldy bread. i feel like ive been transported into the body of a poor medieval peasant during a year of bad harvest. i know that the bread could give me st anthonys fire and seems to be attracting miasma but we have to eat it anyway. we have no other options. the king has raised the taxes and we no longer have money for good bread. we decided to spend our last few coins on a delicious meat pie but the butchers guild have failed to do their job (again) and now all we have is mouldy bread and a pie with bad meat. at least the conduit is flowing, such a beautiful shade of brown........ oh hey look, a rat

[italianartsociety]

By: Amy Fredrickson 

The illuminator and painter Zanobi di Benedetto di Caroccio degli Strozzi was born into one of the largest and wealthiest families in Florence on 17 November 1412, although during his lifetime the Strozzi family would lose their battle for supremacy of Florence to the Medici. While Zanobi was primarily active as an illuminator, he also produced both private devotional works and altarpieces.

Zanobi, along with his older brother Francesco and sister Maddalena, were orphaned when he was fifteen. There is a lack of documentation regarding his early life, but tax records prove that between 1427 and 1430 he was living with the illuminator Battista di Biagio Sanguigni (1393-1451) in nearby Fiesole. Due to his aristocratic status, he began his training privately with Sanguigni, rather than an apprenticeship in a workshop. Sanguigni and Zanobi collaborated on several projects. The artists remained close, and in 1432 Sanguigni helped pay Maddalena’s dowry when she entered the Augustinian convent of San Gaggio. In total, the duo lived together for between eight and eleven years. Zanobi provided his tutor with financial support for another fourteen years. He also provided provisions and wine, and he even deeded the Strozzi property in Palaiuola to Sanguigni in 1446 when Zanobi moved back to Florence with his wife Nanna di Francesco Strozzi. Sanguigni continued to live in Palaiuola until his death in 1451 when the property reverted back to Zanobi’s brother, Francesco Strozzi. 

Due to their close working relationship, Sanguigni and Zanobi have rather similar styles. In Fiesole, the duo connected with Fra Angelico, whom they met at San Domenico, where Fra Angelico was working at the time. In Lives, Vasari included Zanobi in the friar’s biography, claiming that Zanobi was a fervent follower.

Interestingly, due to the regulations of the Florentine guilds, an aristocrat could neither rule the city nor take an active part in politics. Consequently, Zanobi never registered with the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in Florence and was therefore unable to secure commissions under his own name; the majority of his works are collaborations.

When Zanobi arrived in Florence, he may have been a tenant in Pesellino’s workshop, as there are no documents that prove he purchased his own studio until several years later. Another possibility is that he entered some type of formal partnership with Pesellino (c.1422 - 1457). They worked on an altarpiece together, and the main panel is The Assumption of the Virgin located in the National Gallery of Art in Dublin. Scholars have proposed different ideas regarding how much each artist participated in this work. They also worked on an illumination of the Bellum Poenicum from 1446 to 1449.

Between 1446 and 1454, Zanobi collaborated with Filippo di Matteo Torelli on Cosimo de’ Medici’s commission for choir books for the church of San Marco. Fra Angelico reviewed the miniatures according to a document dated 2 May 1449. In 1460, shortly after finishing the choir books, the Medici also ordered an altarpiece for the church of San Girolamo in Fiesole, which was in proximity to their new Villa Medici. In 1463, he began another large commission to illuminate choir books for the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore. For this project, he collaborated with Francesco di Antonio del Chierico. It took eleven years to finish these works, even with the help of an entire workshop. In fact, the workshop incorporated several notable Florentine artists, including Cosimo Rosselli and Domenico Ghirlandaio.

While he worked primarily as an illuminator, he left behind several paintings. Zanobi’s only signed work is an Annunciation (c. 1440-1445) for the church of San Miniato al Monte, now housed in the National Gallery, London. The Lanfredini family commissioned this work for their private chapel in San Miniato al Monte. Zanobi depicted a traditional scene with the Virgin seated in prayer and the angel Gabriel announcing that she will bear the Son of God. Above Gabriel he placed a dove to represent the Holy Spirit, and he incorporated the lily as an emblem of the Virgin’s purity and grace. He also included the Lanfredini family arms on the capitals of the columns in the painting, and he concealed his signature, “ZANOBI,” on the border of the Virgin's blue robe.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art also holds an Annunciation in its collection, which demonstrates Fra Angelico’s influence on Zanobi's iconographic choices. His decision to portray the angel Gabriel flying in on clouds is unconventional, yet while working in Fiesole, he may have seen Fra Angelico’s 1425 missal depicting Gabriel in the same manner. Additionally, in 1434, Fra Angelico depicted Gabriel in pink robes in an Annunciation for the convent of Santa Maria Novella. In this work, Gabriel's garb is a similar distinctive pink ensemble adorned with gold embroidery. The painting supports Vasari’s statement that Zanobi worked with Fra Angelico and had an impact on Zanobi’s paintings.

The artist died in his native Florence on 6 December 1468 and is buried in Santa Maria Novella. Zanobi is most remembered for his miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and is considered by some as one of the minor masters of his generation. 

References: 

D'Ancona, Mirella Levi. "Zanobi Strozzi Reconsidered," La Bibliofilía 61, no. 1, 1959, pp.1-38. 

Kanter, Laurence, "Battista di Biagio Sanguini and Zanobi Strozzi, " Fra Angelico, ed. Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005).

Leader, Anne, The Badia of Florence, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012).

Little, Amanda, Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social  History, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Mayer Thurman, Christa C, Laurence B Kanter, Barbara Drake Boehm, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Gaudenz Freuler, and Pia Palladino, Painting And Illumination In Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995).

Pope-Hennessy, John, The Robert Lehman Collection: Vol. 4, Illuminations, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997).

Strehlke, Carl Brandon, Italian Paintings 1250-1450 in The John G. Johnson Collection and The Philadelphia Museum Of Art, (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2004).

Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives Of The Artists, ed. George Anthony Bull, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997). 

Images:

Book of Hours for the Use of Rome, c. 1445, Manuscript, 135 x 93 mm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The Annunciation, 1440-1445, Panel, 104.5 x 142 cm, The National Gallery of London. 

Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels, 1448-50, Panel, 84 x 57 cm, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan.

St Jerome Altarpiece, 1460s, Oil on wood, 220 x 261 cm, Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon. 

The Annunciation, c. 1453, Tempera and gold on panel, 37 x 30 cm, Museum of Art, Philadelphia.

Saints Cosmas and Damian Saved from Drowning, c. 1435, Tempera and gold on panel, 20 x 22 cm, Museo di San Marco, Florence.

Madonna and Child with Angels, c. 1434, Tempera and gold on panel, 138 x 127 cm, Museo di San Marco, Florence.

Gradual, 1450-55, Manuscript (Corale 3), Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

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Cornelis de Baellieur - Virgin and Child Enthroned - 

oil on copper, Height: 55 cm (21.6 in); Width: 44 cm (17.3 in)

Cornelis de Baellieur (1607, Antwerp – 1671, Antwerp), was a Flemish Baroque painter.

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Anthonis Liesaert and is known for paintings of art galleries. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1626. He drew figures in the paintings of other painters, such as Hans III Jordaens.

[dweemeister]

My alternative 91st Academy Awards

As always during 31 Days of Oscar, I partake in an annual fantasy. What would the Oscars look like if I stuffed the ballots - choosing every single nomination and choosing every single winner? It always would look a lot different. Fans of Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody and Vice? Come at me.

91st Academy Awards – February 24, 2019 Dolby Theatre – Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Host: None Broadcaster: ABC

Best Picture: ROMA

BlacKkKlansman, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele, and Spike Lee (Focus)

Burning (KOR), Lee Joon-dong and Lee Chang-dong (Pinehouse Film/Now Film/NHK/CGV Arthouse/Well Go USA Entertainment)

Eighth Grade, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Lila Yacoub, and Christopher Storer (A24)

The Favourite, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos (Fox Searchlight)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout, J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and Jake Myers (Paramount)

Roma (MEX), Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez, and Nicolas Celis (Netflix)

Shoplifters (JPN), Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, and Taguchi Hijiri (AOI Promotion/Fuji TV/GAGA/Magnolia Pictures)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avi Arad, Ami Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Christina Steinberg (Columbia)

A Star Is Born, Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, and Lynette Howell Taylor (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros.)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, and Nicholas Ma (Focus)

Wholesale changes in this category compared to real life. The best three films of 2018, to me, were Burning, Roma, and Shoplifters -- none of these were in the English language. Films I tossed for Best Picture were Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, and Vice. I don’t think any of those four films have any business being in this category. In their place are the likes of Eighth Grade, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and one of the most technically marvelous action films in decades in Mission: Impossible -- Fallout. Yes, an M:I film (superb editing, setpieces, and audacious style that finally wakes the franchise up).

But I’m going for an unexciting pick according to some with Roma. To use an oxymoron, it is an intimate epic -- one crafted beautifully, daring to comment on relations between ethnicities and the sexes at a certain time in Mexico. 

Best Director

Lee Chang-dong, Burning

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Hirokazu Koreeda, Shoplifters

Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Paul Schrader, First Reformed

If you’re scratching your head, yes... Paul Schrader was nominated for Director in my ceremony, but First Reformed is nowhere to be found in Picture. I tend to do this for one Best Director nominee every year.

Best Actor

Christian Bale, Vice

Ryan Gosling, First Man

Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Yoo Ah-in, Burning

The real-life Best Actor category this year is the most dire slate in a while. So here is your palate cleanser. 

Best Actress

Yalitza Aparicio, Roma

Glenn Close, The Wife

Olivia Colman, The Favourite

Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade

Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born

It is not so much acting, as inhabiting. And, as a non-professional actress, Yalitza Aparicio has it. And I believe that, in my alternate Oscar universe (yes, I’ve drawn up and thought about it for many ceremonies past... I’ll reveal those some day), Aparicio would be the first indigenous woman to be awarded an acting Oscar.

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade

Tim Blake Nelson, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Steven Yeun, Burning

Ali is good, don’t get me wrong. But, compared to the movie Moonlight and his performance in it, it looks like he is about to get a second Oscar for a far worse movie and a lesser role. Ali is fourth or fifth in this lineup for me. Grant is fantastic in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Emma Stone, The Favourite

Marina de Tavira, Roma

Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Michelle Yeoh, Crazy Rich Asians

This comes down to the fact I couldn’t separate Stone and Weisz’s performances in their saucy movie. Nor could I find the argument to give de Tavira or Yeoh the Oscar. This is a bit of a default choice, I hate to say.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman

Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Leave No Trace

Spike Lee would have at least one or two Oscars in my alternative universe by this point! The difference between the screenplays for BlacKkKlansman and Can You Ever Forgive Me? is far slighter than you think.

Best Original Screenplay

Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite

Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Hirokazu Koreeda, Shoplifters

Not even a contest if you asked me. This category is something else if I consider The Favourite and Roma bringing up the rear. But Koreeda’s drama about a found family that does what they can to survive is the culmination of what he has done in his career thus far. This is his Oscar.

Best Animated Feature

Incredibles 2 (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Night is Short, Walk On Girl, Japan (GKIDS/Toho Company)

Ruben Brandt, Collector, Hungary (Mozinet/Sony Pictures Classics)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Columbia)

Tito and the Birds, Brazil (Bits Produções/Shout! Factory)

Longtime followers know that I have unorthodox opinions about animated features. The only Animated Feature Oscar I’ve handed to Pixar/Walt Disney Animation Studios since beginning this tradition in 2013 was for Inside Out. I thought Ralph Breaks the Internet was a painful addition to the Disney animated canon, so it is not here. Nor is Wes Anderson’s culturally insensitive Isle of Dogs or Mamoru Hosoda’s sloppy Mirai. At the end of the day? No boat-rocking this time, except in some of the other nominees.

Best Documentary Feature

Free Solo (National Geographic)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (The Cinema Guild)

Minding the Gap (ITVS/Kartemquin Films/Hulu/Magnolia Pictures)

Three Identical Strangers (CNN/Channel 4/Neon)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus)

Shoulda been nominated! Shoulda won! But in the spirit of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, these are all great documentaries. Minding the Gap is a close #2.

Best Foreign Language Film

Burning, South Korea

Capernaum, Lebanon

Cold War, Poland

Roma, Mexico

Shoplifters, Japan

Best Cinematography

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Caleb Deschanel, Never Look Away (GER)

Rob Hardy, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Matthew Libatique, A Star Is Born

Łukasz Żal, Cold War

Best Film Editing

Barry Alexander Brown, BlacKkKlansman

Jay Cassidy, A Star Is Born

Tom Cross, First Man

Eddie Hamilton, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Yorgos Mavropsaridis, The Favourite

Best Original Musical*

Julia Michels, A Star Is Born

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

Sia, Greg Kurstin, Scott Walker, and Margaret Yen, Vox Lux

*Best Original Musical – known previously as several other names – exists in the Academy’s rulebooks, but requires activation from the Academy’s music branch. To qualify, a film must have no fewer than five original songs. This category was last activated when Prince won for Purple Rain (1984).

Best Original Score

Michael Giacchino, Incredibles 2

Justin Hurwitz, First Man

John Powell, Solo

Alan Silvestri, Ready Player One

Brian Tyler, Crazy Rich Asians

The Star Wars universe is in good musical hands when John Williams leaves after Episode IX!

Best Original Song

“All the Stars”, music by Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave, and Anthony Tiffith, lyrics by Lamar, SZA, and Tiffith, Black Panther

“Nowhere to Go but Up”, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

“The Place Where Lost Things Go”, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

“Shallow”, music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt, A Star Is Born

“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings”, music and lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Costume Design

Alexander Byrne, Mary Queen of Scots

Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther

Sandy Powell, The Favourite

Sandy Powell, Mary Poppins Returns

Mary E. Vogt, Crazy Rich Asians

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Cindy Harlow and Camille Friend, Black Panther

Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer, Border (SWE)

Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, and Jessica Brooks, Mary Queen of Scots

Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin, Solo

Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, and Patricia Dehaney, Vice

Best Production Design

Hannah Beachler, Black Panther

Nelson Coates, Crazy Rich Asians

Fiona Crombie, The Favourite

Nathan Crowley, First Man

John Myhre, Mary Poppins Returns

Best Sound Editing

Benjamin A. Burt and Steve Boeddeker, Black Panther

Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan, First Man

James Mather, Victoria Freund, and Nina Norek, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, A Quiet Place

Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom, Cameron Barker, and Doug Winningham, Ready Player One

Best Sound Mixing

John Casali, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and Niv Adiri, Bohemian Rhapsody

Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis, First Man

Chris Munro, Paul Munro, Lloyd Dudley, and Mark Timms, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, and Michael Barry, A Quiet Place

Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow, A Star Is Born

Best Visual Effects

Daniel DeLeeuw, Jen Underdahl, Kelly Port, Matt Aitken, Dan Sudick, Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones, and Chris Corbould, Christopher Robin

Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J. D. Schwalm, First Man

Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, and David Shirk, Ready Player One

Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Dominic Tuohy, Solo

Best Documentary Short

Black Sheep (Lightbox Entertainment/The Guardian)

End Game (Netflix)

Lifeboat (Spin Film/RYOT Films)

A Night at the Garden (Field of Vision)

Period. End of Sentence. (Guneet Monga)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees is coming soon (check this space later).

Best Live Action Short

Detainment (Twelve Media)

Fauve, Canada (H264 Distribution)

Marguerite, Canada (H264 Distribution)

Mother, Spain (Apache Films/Caballo Films/Malvalanda)

Skin (New Native Pictures/Salaud Morisset)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees is coming soon (check this space later).

Best Animated Short

Animal Behaviour (National Film Board of Canada)

Bao (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Late Afternoon (Cartoon Saloon)

One Small Step (Taiko Studios)

Weekends (Past Lives Productions)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees can be read here.

Academy Honorary Awards: Cicely Tyson, Lalo Schifrin, and Marvin Levy

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall

MULTIPLE NOMINEES (24) Eight: The Favourite; Roma Seven: First Man; A Star Is Born Six: Mission: Impossible – Fallout Five: Black Panther; Burning; Mary Poppins Returns Four: Crazy Rich Asians; Eighth Grade; Shoplifters Three: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; BlacKkKlansman; First Reformed; Ready Player One, Solo Two: Bohemian Rhapsody; If Beale Street Could Talk; Incredibles 2; Mary Queen of Scots; A Quiet Place; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; Vice; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

WINNERS 4 wins: Roma 2 wins: First Man; Mary Poppins Returns 1 win: BlacKkKlansman; Black Panther; Border; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Cold War; Crazy Rich Asians; First Reformed; If Beale Street Could Talk; Marguerite; Mission: Impossible – Fallout; Shoplifters; Solo; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; A Star Is Born; Weekends; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

19 winners from 25 categories. 39 feature-length films and 15 short films were represented.

[catholic-philately]

23rd International Eucharistic Congress Germany, 1912

St Anthony’s Guild cinderella stamp USA

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DVD cover art hand painted in Ghana by Mark Anthony courtesy of Deadly Prey Gallery! VHS cover art hand drawn by Jess Johnson (@flesh_dozer on Instagram)

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Star, February 10

Cover: Hollywood Therapy Confessions 

Page 1: In her new memoir Jessica Simpson reveals the terrifying depths of her drug and alcohol abuse and how she came back from the abyss 

Page 2: Contents, Duchess Kate 

Page 3: LOL! -- Teen Wolf star Colton Haynes finally discovered Amazon, Word of the Week -- finasco, according to Bachelor hopeful Hannah Ann, Loser of the Week -- Mr. Peanut, Winner of the Week -- Derek Jeter was unfazed that his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame wasn’t unanimous, snowboarder Shaun White dropped the price of his Malibu home from $12.75 million to $10.9 million 

Page 4: As shocking new evidence comes to light Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s future is looking dire 

Page 5: Kirstie Alley -- why I haven’t dated in 20 years, Adam Driver is Hollywood’s latest golden boy but he’s struggling to cope with fame, Ozzy Osbourne has Parkinson’s Disease 

Page 6: Caitlyn Jenner has long been at war with the Kardashians clan but behind the scenes it turns out she has one ally in the family -- Kanye West, Ryan O’Neal’s sad last days, Star Spots the Stars -- Ashlee Simpson Ross and Evan Ross, Jason Priestley, Courtney Love, La La Anthony, Awkwafina, Rocky Barnes 

Page 8: Star Shots -- Lupita Nyong’o at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Jason Priestley and wife Naomi and their kids Dashielle and Ava at Cirque du Soleil’s Volta, Drew Barrymore celebrated her new syndicated talk show at an industry event 

Page 9: Hugh Jackman in New Orleans on the set of Reminiscence, Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton strolling in NYC

Page 10: Liv Tyler on her way to Jimmy Kimmel Live, Eva Longoria at the Producers Guild Awards, Rebecca Romijn and a dog 

Page 12: Uma Thurman and son Levon at the Dior Haute Couture show in Paris, Robert Downey Jr. at the Dolittle press conference, Bella Hadid on the catwalk during the Alexandre Vauthier fashion show 

Page 13: Kelly Rowland grocery shopping

Page 14: Jonathan Scott and Zooey Deschanel ahead of her ‘80s-themed 40th birthday, Pink and her kids Willow and Jameson at Disneyland, Josh Gad and Kristen Bell reteam for an animated sitcom Central Park 

Page 16: SAG Awards -- Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie, Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Aniston 

Page 17: Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, Zoe Kravitz and Reese Witherspoon, Stranger Things Cara Buono and Finn Wolfhard and Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown and Priah Ferguson and Gaten Matarazzo 

Page 18: Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan on The Graham Norton Show

Page 19: Joey McIntyre as Orsino in Twelfth Night, Kaley Cuoco cuddled with costar Alberto Frezza on a Vespa shooting The Flight Attendant 

Page 20: Normal or Not? Bono works out with weights on a yacht in St. Barts -- not normal, Elizabeth Banks has a supersized salad -- normal, Logan Paul picked up an antique Victrola at a flea marker -- normal 

Page 22: Fashion -- Best of the Week -- Screen Actors Guild Awards edition -- Jennifer Garner, Danai Gurira, Kathryn Newton 

Page 23: Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Brosnahan, Sophie Turner 

Page 26: Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich are Hollywood’s most confusing couple 

Page 27: Charlize Theron has been vocal about being single and costar Nicole Kidman is telling her to try her luck in Nashville, Chris Pratt is starring in and producing The Tomorrow War in Atlanta while wife Katherine Schwarzenegger is alone in L.A. and she’s fed up of playing second fiddle to his career, Love Bites -- Tim Tebow and Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters wed, Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters wed, Justin Ervin and Ashley Graham welcomed a baby boy, Christina Milian and Matt Pokora welcomed a son, DJ Khaled and wife Nicole Tuck welcomed their second son 

Page 28: Liev Schreiber plans to propose to girlfriend Taylor Neisen and ex Naomi Watts has given her approval, Zach Braff and Florence Pugh have moved in together, Khloe Kardashian isn’t taking any chances when it comes to her renewed romance with Tristan Thompson by using iPhone’s Find Me app and has had him tailed by her bodyguards

Page 29: Liam Hemsworth has found happiness with Gabriella Brooks following his split from Miley Cyrus but those closest to him are begging him to take it slow, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara and Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha are spending time together as a foursome going out for vegan dinners and hanging out at each other’s houses and they share a skepticism about showbiz 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Hollywood’s Therapists Tell All -- Katy Perry wanted to die 

Page 31: Bethenny Frankel drove her therapist to quit, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban cocaine and cheating shocker 

Page 32: Chip Gaines’ shocking sacrifice to save his marriage to Joanna Gaines, Eva Longoria loves being tied up, Beyonce and Jay-Z -- he confessed his cruelest infidelities, Halle Berry -- dad’s abuse ruined her self-esteem 

Page 33: Keith Richards snorted his dad’s ashes, Emma Stone suffers crippling panic attacks 

Page 34: Team Meghan -- with the royal family in the rearview mirror Meghan Markle is leaning on old friends who stood by her 

Page 36: Getting an Early Start -- these famous faces began their careers when they were just kids -- Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio 

Page 37: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal 

Page 38: Keri Russell, Neil Patrick Harris, Seth Green 

Page 39: Drew Barrymore, Hayden Panettiere, Joseph Gordon-Levitt 

Page 40: Double Takes -- Karen Elson vs. Julianne Moore 

Page 44: Style -- fitness -- Meghan King Edmonds 

Page 46: Super Bowl party -- Jamie Chung 

Page 48: Entertainment 

Page 50: Q&A with Mike “The Miz” Mizanin and Maryse Mizanin 

Page 60: Parting Shot -- Marion Cotillard visited the Antarctica to bring awareness to how climate change, industrial fishing and plastic pollution are impacting marine life