#claudius civilis

[rcvandenboogaard]

Het lege land van de overschatte koning

De historicus Auke van der Woud (Sneek, 1947) is geen bewonderaar van koning Willem I. Zoveel is duidelijk na lezing van ‘Het lege land, 1800-1850’, de in 2022 verschenen bewerking van zijn al uit 1987 daterende, sedertdien vaak herdrukte dissertatie, die aanvankelijk ‘Het lege land, de ruimtelijke orde van Nederland 1798-1848’ heette. Dat het boek er was, was mij tot voor kort ontgaan, maar…

[cutehomeart]

The story of The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis goes beyond its mere depiction. Commissioned in 1661, the Dutch city council sought an iconic piece for the new town hall in Amsterdam. The council turned to Rembrandt, a famous master, to create a series of paintings honoring the Batavian revolt against the Romans, a historical event cherished by the Dutch as a symbol of their resistance against Spanish rule.

This specific artwork, however, illustrates the pivotal moment of the Batavian revolt. It showcases the scene where the Batavian chieftain, Claudius Civilis, leads the conspiracy against the Roman Empire. Surrounded by his fellow Batavian chiefs, Civilis swears an oath to free their people from Roman rule.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, could you explain the causes of the French Revolution? A timeline of events would be a great bonus.

"Timeline of Events"

3.5 million years ago: first human ancestor evolved from a smaller ancestor

2.1 million years ago: Australopithecus evolved from smaller ancestors

900,000 years ago: Homo Habilis evolved from earlier human ancestors

700,000 years ago: Neanderthals first evolved from Homo Habilis

35,000 years ago: earliest Homo Sapiens sapiens is thought to have arrived in France

11,700 years ago: Late Stone Age dietary record of French Emperor Louis XVI's ancestor found near Paris, indicating the possible site of his castle Chateau Versailles

2,800 BCE: Celtic invaders migrate from what is now the Ukraine and Bulgaria

822 BCE: first Celts found on the isle of England

61 BCE: Julius Caesar arrives in what is now France and begins campaign against Celts

55 BCE: Julius Caesar captured by Gallic mercenaries on the banks of the Aisne river

53 BCE: Brennus of the city of Nassus leads first Gallic invasion of Italy

51 BCE: Pompey the Great ends Gallic occupation of Italy

38 CE: Emperor Claudius pacifies the Gauls after a Gaulish invasion of the isle of Britain

396 CE: Emperor Constantine, recognizing the influence of the Parisian countryside, transfers his capital to what is now France

476 CE: The Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus is deposed, marking the end of the Roman Empire

583 CE: Good King Charlemagne unites the Frankish people into a single kingdom

1494 CE: the Parliament of Toulouse passes the Edict of Purification, requiring Jews to convert to Christianity or leave the country

1531 CE: Henry VIII becomes first King of England and France

1610 CE: Francis Bacon publishes the New Organon, asserting in chapters 17 and 18 that the Heavens contain a fluid which he theorizes is the component of all matter on Earth

1632 CE: Corpus Juris Civilis, the universally agreed-upon legal code of the Catholic Church, dissolved

1648 CE: Protestant forces in France defeat Catholic forces, marking the beginning of the French Revolution

1848 CE: King Louis Philippe is deposed and the Second French Republic established

1870 CE: France is annexed by Prussia and Germany

1914 CE: an assassination in Sarajevo sparks World War I

1945 CE: Winston Churchill's government publishes the Paris Protocols, detailed proposals for the creation of the European Union

1958 CE: the European Union is founded, consisting of the six member states of France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium

[licncourt]

louis' bookshelf: the begin again reading list

I forgot to post this after I finished the fic, but these are the sources for all the thematically relevant references in Begin Again. I know my writing style can be polarizing, but I was so flattered and excited by the enthusiasm for my love of intertextuality, so these are the pieces of writing that inspired me. They're listed in order of appearance!

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Homer's Iliad

The Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Vergil's Aeneid

Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar

Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Bucolic II by Vergil

Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

The Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Dante's Divine Comedy

The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Othello by William Shakespeare

Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray

A Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

God is Dead by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Candide by Voltaire

Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

De Clementia by Seneca the Younger

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke

The Spirit of the Laws by Baron de Montesquieu

Bello Civili by Julius Caesar

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

[cristianemagalhaes]

Hereges – Leonardo Padura

Outro autor que dispensa apresentações... Todos os livros dele são excepcionalmente bons! Hereges conta várias histórias, entrelaçadas por um pequeno quadro de Rembrandt retratando um jovem judeu como um Cristo humanizado. Tais histórias cobrem desde Rembrandt e seu quadro, o modelo que foi usado e que queria ser pintor, os que levaram esse quadro na sua viagem ao fugir do nazismo e tentar entrar em Cuba, seu misterioso reaparecimento numa casa de leilões e o personagem Mario Conde, tão presente nos livros de Padura, que vai investigar tanto o sumiço como seu reaparecimento, a pedido de um dos descendentes dos legítimos proprietários desse quadro.

“Na manhã de 14 de junho de 1642... Rembrandt seguia o andamento fúnebre da modesta carroça em que viajavam os restos daquela que havia sido sua esposa e musa mais solicitada,...

,,, Rembrandt van Rijn chorou com toda a sua tristeza....o pintor jurou que nunca mais choraria. Por motivo algum....

... Então, Rembrandt van Rijn, tão esgotado, não teve força para cumprir o juramento que fizera a si próprio. Antes de morrer, ele teria de chorar mais quatro vezes.

Porque Rembrandt chorou na tarde de 1656 quando, vencido pelas pressões dos credores, teve de declarar falência e abandonar a sua querida casa no número 4 da Jodenbreestraat, enquanto os membros do Tribunal de Insolvências Patrimoniais faziam o inventário de todos os seus pertences, obras, lembranças, objetos, acumulados durante anos, para serem liquidados em leilão público em benefício de seus credores.

Voltaria a chorar na noite de 1661, quando os altos dignatários da prefeitura de Amsterdã, sem pagar um centavo pelo trabalho solicitado, recursaram, por considera-la imprópria, rude e até mesmo inacabada, sua peça A Conspiração de Claudius Civilis...

O homem voltaria a chorar em 24 de julho de 1663, quando deixou em um túmulo da Westerkerk o cadáver de Hendrickje Stoffels, a mulher que o acompanhara durante quase vinte anos...

E, quando já não lhe restavam forças sequer para amaldiçoar a Deus, teria de chorar outra vez em 7 de setembro de 1667, quando, contra natura, viu morrer seu filho Titus, quinze dias antes de completar 27 anos de idade. Tanto chorou essa morte que apenas um ano depois ele também morreria, lamentando o macabro atraso do Criador.”

 

“Lá fora começou a cair uma chuva cortada por relâmpagos. Eles, a salvo de qualquer inclemência externa, beberam em silêncio, como se não tivessem nada para dizer, mas, na verdade, não precisavam falar porque já haviam dito tudo. Os anos e as pancadas da vida lhes ensinaram a aproveitar plenamente os instantes em que o prazer era possível para depois, avaros, jogarem essa efêmera sensação de vida desfrutada no mealheiro dos ganhos indeléveis, um recipiente translúcido como a memória e que sempre podia se quebrar caso viessem tempos piores, quando haveria até mais razões para chorar. E eles também sabiam que essa era uma possibilidade permanentemente à espreita. Mas estavam ali, tenazes, bebendo, trancados por vontade própria entre as muralhas erguidas para proteger o melhor de sua vida, seus únicos pertences inalienáveis.”

Se quiser ouvir o próprio autor falando sobre o livro veja

[paganplaces]

Statue of Claudius Civilis

This statue represents the Batavian resistance hero, who fought against the rule of the Romans.

Read more at: https://paganplaces.com/places/statue-of-claudius-civilis/

[paganimagevault]

(Part 1/4). Claudius Civilis by Jean-Louis Van Geel 1820-1821, replica by Guido van Vliet 2011-2013

"The original sculpture, the work of Johannes Ludovicus van Geel, was carved in limestone from the region of Valenciennes. This highly porous stone was used frequently during the Dutch period, including in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels. The sculpture had suffered from the weather and lost much of its detail. Besides stone erosion also the marble color painting HAD almost completely disappeared. Furthermore, the sculpture was severely damaged by vandals (a hand with the Roman Gladius short sword has disappeared). On 13 May 2011 the statue was disassembled and transported to the sculptor's studio in Vilvoorde. There was made an exact copy. The original is kept as an archaeological relic and temporarily placed in a shed in the Park. On 6 May 2013 the replica was placed in the park." -taken from statues.vanderkrogt

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2020/05/claudius-civilis-by-jean-louis-van-geel.html

[illustratus]

The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis and the Batavians in the Schakerbos | The Conspiracy of Julius Civilis and the Batavians in a Sacred Grove

by Otto van Veen

[srednod]

Georg Sturm (1855-1923)

Claudius Civilis predikt den opstand tegen de Romeinen

1880s

[toosvanholstein]

Heel oude helden, minder oude helden en ook nog striphelden Asterix en Obelix

Wat die veel bediscussieerde Nederlandse identiteit te maken heeft met Asterix en Obelix legt Toos van Holstein uit in haar wekelijkse kunstblog TOOS&ART. Oh ja, Rembrandt komt ook nog even voorbij. #kunst #art #expo #Asterix

beelden van Vercingetorix

Een paar jaar geleden stond ik in Clermont Ferrand plotseling oog in oog met een woest uitgedoste Galliër. Vercingetorix, naar bleek. Hij moest mij overigens wel schriftelijk worden voorgesteld via de bijbehorende museumtekst. Want deze vrijheidsstrijder voor Gallië, dat wat nu dus zo’n beetje Frankrijk is,  bleek al bijna tweeduizend jaar dood. Begin 2018 schreef ik al…

[theearofvangogh]

The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis [1661 - 1662]

Rembrandt [1606 - 1669]

[huariqueje]

The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis - Jarik Jongman,2019.

 Dutch, b. 1962 - 

Oil on board , 196 x 309 cm. (triptych) 

[persephone-on-main]

The Green Knight + art

Caspar David Friedrich 'Klosterruine Eldena'

John William Waterhouse 'Magic Circle'

Frank Bernard Dicksee 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

Rembrandt 'The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis' (closeup)

Johannes Vermeer 'Girl with a wine glass'

[rijksmuseum-art]

The Beheading of Claudius Paulus and the Capture of Julius Civilis, Museum of the Netherlands

In 1613, the Dutch parliament (States General) commissioned Otto van Veen to paint twelve paintings depicting the revolt of the Batavians against the Romans in AD 69 and 70. These were displayed in Binnenhof, the central government building in The Hague. In the early years of the Dutch Republic, many compared their own revolt against Spain to the Batavian uprising.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6796

[erosforms]

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis, 1661-1662

[cornelia-the-vestal]

who are your favorites frm Ancient Rome and why?

Oh! I have a lot of faves. Here’s a few of them:

·        Quintus Petilius Cerealis: he’s the general who put down the Batavan Revolt, and I love him for it! There’s this moment where he holds a conference with the Batavan leader Civilis, a moment which I love to talk about. Sadly, not much details of that moment are known.

·        Antonia Minor: a fascinating woman with connections all over the Empire.

·        Flavia Domitilla: I’m talking about the granddaughter of Vespasian. She was declared a saint, and her story as a matyr is quite fascinating (and makes me laugh everytime I read it actually). The case of her religion is nice to discuss, that’s why she’s so interesting to me.

·        Emperor Domitian: one of if not my most favourite Roman Emperor. I really don’t think he was as bad as ancient sources claim, and I like to defend him. He seemed to be quite lonely during most of his life, so I pity him a bit.

·        Emperor Claudius: I wrote an article about his speech problems for my studies (mostly focusing on the cerebral palsy theory) and I enjoyed gathering info about him. He loved history and luinguistics, and I can relate.

·        Claudia Livilla: I can make a whole post about her, and I probably should. I’m often wondering about what she was like and what she actually wanted, which is why I have a soft spot for her. Like, what were her thoughts really about Sejanus? How did she view her mother? I want to know!

 I can go on, but I’ll stop there (time is limiting my list). Thank you so much for the ask! Have a wonderful day!