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In 2000 the portrait was sold at Christie's in London as a portrait of the wife of the theologian Johannes Sylvius for nearly 20 million pounds. [5] Aeltje Pietersdr Uylenburgh lived in the minister's residence of the Oude Kerk and was the daughter of Saskia van Uylenburgh's uncle Pieter, making them first cousins, though Aeltje was a generation older and probably served as a guide for the 21 ...
Robert De Niro: Taxi Driver: 1976 11 "What we've got here is failure to communicate." [e] Captain Strother Martin: Cool Hand Luke: 1967 12 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore Robert Duvall: Apocalypse Now: 1979 13 "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Jennifer Cavalleri, Oliver Barrett IV Ali MacGraw Ryan ...
111 years, 78 days: Italian composer, painter and teacher [26] [27] Luís Torras: M: 29 December 1912: 14 January 2024: 111 years, 16 days: Spanish painter [28] Silas Simmons: M: 14 October 1895: 29 October 2006: 111 years, 15 days: Longest-lived American semi-professional and professional baseball player [29] Zhou Youguang: M: 13 January 1906: ...
62: A Model Kit (Spanish: 62/Modelo para armar) is a novel by Julio Cortázar published in 1968. It is considered the author's most experimental novel. [1] Plot.
si vis pacem, para bellum: if you want peace, prepare for war: From Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De Re Militari. Origin of the name parabellum for some ammunition and firearms, such as the Luger Parabellum. (Similar to igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum and in pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello.) sic: thus: Or "just so".
The painting's short original title is Celebes, according to inscriptions on the front and back of the canvas. [1] Ernst painted Celebes in Cologne in 1921. The French poet and Surrealist Paul Éluard visited Ernst that year and purchased the painting and took it back to Paris. Éluard would buy other of Ernst's paintings, and Ernst painted murals for Éluard's house in Eaubonne.