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9 years ago @ The Toast - Men Praying Bitchily I... · 0 replies · +5 points

I know Elizabeth Jane Gardner's "David the Shepherd" is supposed to be David, but that's not the gender read I get on her, so I'm just going to add an "It's me, Margaret" to it.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Best of Andrew Bar... · 0 replies · +10 points

The actual 3rd Baronet (yellow chartreuse guy) looks even cooler that his bather (misleadingly pictured above). http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.p... Although, the 1st Baronet appears to have use the 2nd Bt as the sperm for Queen Maud of Norway... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Laking#Rece...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Women Who Are So Rich ... · 0 replies · +44 points

Sargent rules this genre:

10 years ago @ The Toast - How To Throw A Party · 1 reply · +75 points

Academic painting seems to have been the MA fanfic of the 19th century.
Books > Judges
"She Knew No Man"
Jephtha's daughter must be sacrificed to save the tribes of Israel. But before she makes the final sacrifice, she is granted one last two month camping trip with her girlfriends. As they bewail her virginity, they make discoveries that will change them all forever. Rated: Fiction MA 15,372 words.

10 years ago @ The Toast - How To Throw A Party · 7 replies · +32 points

Is this the most subtexty painting of "The Daughter of Jephtha" ever? Judges 11:37 ff: "And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year."

10 years ago @ The Toast - Paintings Where The Su... · 0 replies · +29 points

"Oh Christ, I've left the iron on!"
Cried the Lady of Shalott. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/...

10 years ago @ The Toast - Unconvincing Hymns of ... · 1 reply · +8 points

It's a clef invented for tenor choral singers during the 19th century, because amateur singers couldn't be expected read C-clefs (but could read treble clef and sing an octave down). It tells you to read treble clef, but an octave down. The clef itself is a version of a C-clef, but normally a C clef (or any other clef-- G clef or F clef) can only be placed on a line. It's more common now to write a treble clef with an 8 hanging below it; or else just use a treble clef when it's clear from context (4-part choral music tenor part) that the line is to be sung an octave down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Octave_clefs

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Best Presidential ... · 1 reply · +22 points

The anti-Van Buren song of 1836 is moderately awesome:
"Who never did a noble deed
Who of the people took no heed
Who is the worst of tyrants breed?
Van Buren!
Who would his friend, his country sell
Do other deeds too base to tell,
Deserves the lowest place in hell?
Van Buren!" http://www.folkways.si.edu/oscar-brand/van-buren-...

10 years ago @ The Toast - The Martyrdom Of Saint... · 0 replies · +13 points

I like to think of Fred Holland Day in 1907 explaining to his model: "Now, you'll need to hold this pose for several minutes without moving while I make the exposure." (The Library of Congress, with evident prurient delight, calls this photograph "St. Sebastian in loincloth, tied to tree with rope, arrows in stomach and side, hands behind back.") http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g0400...

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