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"The Touch of the Master's Hand", also sometimes called The Old Violin, [1] is a Christian poem written in 1921 [2] by Myra Brooks Welch. [3]The poem tells of a battered old violin that is about to be sold as the last item at an auction for a pittance, until a violinist steps out of the audience and plays the instrument, demonstrating its beauty and true value.
In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master") [1] [2] refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
Myra Brooks was born on October 12, 1877, in Farmington Township, Fulton County, Illinois to Mary (née Eshelman) and John W. Brooks. [2] [3] She was the youngest of four other siblings: Charles, David, Frank and Dessie. [3] By 1900, she and her parents had relocated to Independence, Oregon, where she was working as a sales clerk in a store. [4]
Roman Triptych received praise from philosopher and historian Stanisław Grygiel , [4] poet and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, [1] poet Marek Skwarnicki , [3] and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, [1] [3] several of whom were close personal friends of John Paul II. It was especially popular in Poland, selling out 80% of the initial print run of ...
The Emigrant's Story and Other Poems (1874) The Book of Gold and Other Poems (1977) Guy Vernon: A Novelette in Verse (1878) A Home Idyl and Other Poems (1881) Farnell's Folly (1884) The New Physics: A Manual of Experimental Study for High Schools and Preparatory Schools for College (1884) The Little Master (1886)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in what is now the Oldmasters Museum, Brussels.It is now usually regarded as an early copy of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder "Musée des Beaux Arts" (French for "Museum of Fine Arts") is a 21-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood. [1]
For English-speakers, the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by or after Bruegel, is one of the most famous works, [10] if only because of W. H. Auden's poem Musée des Beaux Arts. Other paintings by Bruegel the Elder are: The Fall of the Rebel Angels , [ 11 ] Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap [ 12 ] and The Census at Bethlehem , [ 13 ] a group ...
"Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the "Paysages tristes" ("Sad landscapes") section of the collection. [1]