Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts

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Hógáin makes connections between the saint, the goddess, the sun, poetry, cows, Vedic tradition and the Goddess Boann (eponym of the River Boyne), who may have been the mother of Brigit, and whose name seems to come from bo/-fhionn (white cow, she of white cattle,) cognate with Sanskrit Govinda." (5) This is naturally beyond the scope of the average parish, but by establishing a good schola cantorum, such a parish participates in forming the next generation of church musicians who will then enter high school and university better trained and more conversant in church music than any other undergraduate church music students. It would prepare young Catholics to take the best places in the best institutions and offer them opportunities that would have a lasting effect on the liturgical life in our parishes.

Two years later, the couple left for the United States, where she studied drama while he took further law studies at Yale University.Saint Thomas the Apostle (aka Doubting Thomas) is another patron saint of architecture. Why? According to the Golden Legend, he was sent as an architect to build a great palace for Gondoforus, the King of the Indies. Vitus Cedric C. Brown, Patronage, Politics, and Literary traditions in England, 1558–1658, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1993. Casati is also the namesake of the Marchesa fashion house started by British designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig. One design partnership Luisa Casati nurtured for many years was with that of the prolific French designer Paul Poiret. The ‘foundation dress’,designed by Poiret circa 1920,was an elaborate series of wiring and pearls that was worn over a simple shift. (Image 3) Sarasvati, from a manuscript of the lyric poem “Meghaduta,” Rajasthani style, early 18th century; in a private collection. (more)

She ends up as a patroness of the arts because she enjoys posing for a nude statue (and seducing the sculptor).For many centuries, there were 19 virgins (originally priestesses and later nuns) who tended Her eternal flame at Kildare. There they are said to have sung this song (until the 18th century): She turned away to welcome the next person, a longtime member of Early Music Society, a widow and patroness. a b Hall, Anthony (July 1974). "Patron‐Client Relations". The Journal of Peasant Studies. London: Taylor & Francis. 1 (4): 506–509. doi: 10.1080/03066157408437908. ISSN 0306-6150. OCLC 4654622533.

In 2013, Italian publisher Rizzoli Libri published biographical graphic novel La Casati: La musa egoista by artist Vanna Vinci. Translation has been published by Dargaud in France. English translation has been available from Europe Comics since 2015 with the title Casati: The Selfish Muse.

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On 21 March 2020 the opera Ritratto premiered [22] with the Dutch National Opera: an opera by Willem Jeths on the life of Luisa Casati. [23] over the past thirty-five years: the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the naval wars against the Dutch. Like many of his contemporaries, the playwright had lived a life shaped by those events. Born in London, John Crowne emigrated to America during the Interregnum and attended the dourly Puritan Harvard College. When he returned to England after the Restoration, he denounced his Harvard teachers as enemies to the king and began a literary career designed to gain royal patronage.21 In his preface to the printed version of Calisto, Crowne described himself as “invaded, on the sudden, by a Powerful Command, to prepare an Entertainment for the Court.” It was a welcome opportunity but a challenging one, especially for a playwright who had no experience in writing words for music. The choice of plot also presented problems. In the source, a tale from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the impatient Jupiter rapes the virgin Calisto, which put the playwright in a difficult position: “I employed myself,” Crowne confessed, “to write a clean, decent, and inoffensive Play, on the Story of a Rape, so that I was engaged in this Dilemma, either wholly to deviate from my Story, and so my Story would be no Story, or by keeping to it, write what would be unfit for Princesses and Ladies to speak, and a Court to hear.”22 Crowne’s dilemma took on more urgency because Princess Mary was to play the title role. Aware of the court’s interest in using this drama to feature the duke’s young daughters, the playwright made no effort to maintain the already thin distinction between the mythical nymphs and the real princesses. As soon as Calisto appears, Diana praises her in terms clearly applicable to Mary: Princess Calisto, most admir’d belov’d, The Fairest, Chastest, most approv’d Of all that ever grac’d my Virgin Throng, You, who of great and Royal Race are sprung, Born under Golden Roofs, and bred to ease, To every kind of soft delight, To Glory, Power, and all that might A Royal Virgin please. As Nyphe, a character invented by Crowne, Anne had to make a speech extending this flattery and deferring to her sister: How am I pleas’d my Sisters praise to hear, Though like a little Star I near appear, Nature and Friendship do enough prefer My Name to Honour, whilst I shine in her.23 Many Barmakids were patrons of the sciences, which greatly helped the propagation of Indian science and scholarship from the neighboring Academy of Gundishapur into the Arabic world. They patronized scholars such as Jabir ibn Hayyan and Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. They are also credited with the establishment of the first paper mill in Baghdad. The power of the Barmakids in those times is reflected in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights; the vizier Ja'far appears in several stories, as well as a tale that gave rise to the expression "Barmecide feast".