Chapter 10: Philippe De Champaigne Always believe miracles are possible ( I don‘t know any more about PDC than Dadé tells us here but I do like this painting, I‘d like to see it irl life) Louis XIV and his absolutism giving current political landscape vibes, golden ballroom anyone? #europacollective we need a few miracles right now but at least Dolly Parton is alive and well
Chapter 9: Nicolas Poussin Let nothing make you tremble. Paul is liquidating his assets at rock bottom prices to keep himself in liquids ???? and Dadé states you can‘t have faith without doubt. NP paints perfectly without any disorder, the opposite of real life #europacollective
Chapter 8: Johannes Vermeer The infinitely small is infinitely big. JV painting astronomers ( and geographers) like the real people they are, just going about their work dispelling the ‘truths‘ the church was trying to sell that dismissed the work of scientists. Can we see any parallels in the modern world?! #europacollective
Chapter 7: know yourself with Rembrandt‘s self portrait with an easel. All of the characters in the story, thus far, are not being truthful about something, big and small lies are being told or truth is being withheld. Rembrandt lived and worked in Amsterdam where we saw one of his famous paintings, The Night Watch, in the Rijk‘s museum. Which is HUGE! #europacollective
I‘m about 2/3 of the way through the October read for #EuropaCollective. Each chapter takes only a few minutes to read but I‘m calling up each painting or sculpture to see a big picture of it so I can follow along with the description. This is a story of a young girl who is possibly going blind, and goes each week with her grandfather to see an important piece of art. Grandpa seems to know a lot about art! We started in the Louvre ⬇️
Chapter 6: Frans Hals painting the humble folk to show they have value, something the 1% needs reminding of in current times. I don‘t think I knew FH was from Haarlem. We stayed in Haarlem when we were in the Netherlands for a week 10 yrs ago, same trip we took both boys to the Louvre. We rode bikes all over Haarlem and to the train station to go to Amsterdam. #europacollective
Chapter 5: Free yourself from matter “no one, in the history of humanity, had as ferocious an appetite for beauty as Michelangelo. “ also when do we stop playing ? 😢 #europacollective
My October plan is to read a chapter a day and take the time to savour each painting. Of course my week was NUTS and I had to catch up today with 4 chapters ??♀️a lifetime ago I took art in high school and I am loving this book so far as Dadé explains the paintings to Mona #europacollective
Saturday mornings are for Buddy reads reading #sundaybuddyread #europacollective
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Hope everyone had a great summer! We‘re excited to get #EuropaCollective up and running again with Mona‘s Eyes as our October read. Just a reminder to get a copy, feel free to comment anytime, and we‘ll have the general discussion on Saturday, November 1st. Happy reading!
