text: "Once Upon A Time In Compton"

text: Timothy M. Brennan and Robert Ladd

text: Compton Police Department

text: Broadcast Journalism

text: University of Florida

text: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

text: Los Angeles

text: Fort Lauderdale, FL

text: Stanley Kubrick

text: "Lolita"

text: Greek mythology

text: Roman mythology

text: Norse mythology

text: Arthurian legend

text: Dante

text: Divine Comedy

text: J.R.R. Tolkien

text: Shakespeare

text: Toni Morrison

text: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

text: Zora Neale Hurston

text: Louise Meriwether

text: Vladimir Nabokov

text: Chinua Achebe

text: Claude Brown

text: Richard Wright

text: Gustav Flaubert

text: Sophocles

text: Aeschylus

text: Euripides

text: Aristophanes

text: Dillard High School

text: University of Florida

text: Gainesville

text: stringer

text: The Independent Florida Alligator

text: Alpha Kappa Alpha

text: UF's

text: Bachelor of Science

text: Broadcast Journalism

text: Fort Lauderdale

text: Newport News, VA

text: Eastern Seaboard

text: Midwest

text: Facilities Management

text: KinderCare Learning Centers

text: Montgomery, AL

text: John Grisham

text: Warner Books

text: SUNY

text: Empire State College

text: Hamlet

text: A&E

text: Benjamin Crump

text: Tupac Shakur

text: Isaiah Washington

text: genealogical DNA test

text: Balanta

text: Guinea-Bissau

text: West Africa

text: "Scenes from a Sistah" - Warner Books

text: "Getting to the Good Part" - Warner Books

text: "Blind Ambitions" - Simon & Schuster

text: "Child of God" - Simon & Schuster

text: "Tastes Like Chicken" - Simon & Schuster

text: "sex.lies.murder.fame." - Amistad

text: HarperCollins

text: "Appropriate Measures" - The Lo Zone

text: Amazon

text: Lolita Files' website, "The Lo Zone"

text: Lolita Files' Books on Amazon.com

text: The Wall Street Journal: Chick Lit Goes 'Glam'

text: The Washington Post: Judged by Their Back Covers

categories: People from Fort Lauderdale, Florida,20th-century American women writers,American women novelists,American women short story writers,21st-century American women writers,African-American writers,20th-century American novelists,21st-century American short story writers,University of Florida alumni,African-American women writers,21st-century American novelists,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people),20th-century American short story writers

paragraph: Lolita Files

paragraph: Lolita Files is an author, screenwriter, and producer. Among her six bestselling novels are book club favorites "Scenes from a Sistah" and "Child of God". Her sixth novel, "sex.lies.murder.fame" was optioned for film by Carolyn Folks for Entertainment Studios with Files adapting the screenplay.

paragraph: The book "Once Upon A Time In Compton", by former Compton Gang Unit Detectives Timothy M. Brennan and Robert Ladd, along with Files, about Brennan and Ladd's years in the gang unit, the rise of Gangsta rap, gang wars, the L.A. riots, the investigations of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., and the fall of the Compton Police Department was published on April 25, 2017.

paragraph: Files has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Florida and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

paragraph: Files lives in Los Angeles, where she writes novels, nonfiction, and writes and produces projects for television, film, and new media.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Lolita Files was born in Fort Lauderdale, FL to Lillie Belle (née Brackett) (d. 2008) and Arthur James Files, Sr. (d. 1999), She was named by her mother after the Stanley Kubrick film "Lolita". She has one older sibling, Arthur James Files, Jr.

paragraph: An avid reader from an early age, she was heavily immersed in mythology (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, Arthurian legend), Dante's Divine Comedy, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Her love of Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Zora Neale Hurston, Louise Meriwether, Vladimir Nabokov, Chinua Achebe, Claude Brown, Richard Wright, Gustav Flaubert, and Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes would inform and influence much of her work.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Education and corporate career.

paragraph: Files graduated from Dillard High School with seven scholarships and attended the University of Florida at Gainesville. She briefly worked as a stringer for the student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator, was a member of the University of Florida Gospel Choir, and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (Iota Lambda chapter). In her senior year, she was a Senator representing the College of Journalism and Communications in UF's Student Senate.

paragraph: After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism, Files returned to Fort Lauderdale, working as a marketing manager for a pharmaceutical company and as a regional property coordinator for Great Atlantic Property Management, a real estate management company based out of Newport News, VA with commercial and residential properties that spanned the Eastern Seaboard and parts of the Midwest. Her experience with the world of property management would later inform her first two novels, "Scenes from a Sistah" (1997), and its followup, "Getting To The Good Part" (1999).

paragraph: From 1992 to 1996, Files was the National Communications Manager for the Facilities Management division of KinderCare Learning Centers, the nation's largest provider of for-profit child care and early childhood education, then based in Montgomery, AL.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Writing.

paragraph: In the fall of 1994, Files overnighted two comedic short stories and fifty pages of "Child of God," a dramatic novel she'd been sporadically working on for five years, to literary agency Jay Garon-Brooke Associates, Inc., the agency that represented bestselling author John Grisham. In her query letter, Files stated she had eight more short stories that went with the two she sent.

paragraph: Nancy Coffey, an agent from Garon-Brooke, called the next morning requesting to see the rest of the material. A week later, Files was signed by the agency.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:"Scenes From A Sistah" and "Child of God".

paragraph: After signing with Garon-Brooke, while working on completing "Child of God," Files began writing another novel, "Scenes from a Sistah," completing the first draft in seven days. In February 1996, Warner Books purchased "Scenes" for an advance of $50,000.

paragraph: In April 1996, Files left Corporate America for a full-time career as a writer. "Scenes from a Sistah" debuted a year later in April 1997 and was an instant hit, quickly selling out of its first printing and landing on several bestseller lists.

paragraph: "Child of God" was published in September 2001, after the release of "Scenes" sequel "Getting to the Good Part" in 1999 and "Blind Ambitions," in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:"HodgePodge".

paragraph: The short stories that helped Files get signed by the Garon-Brooke literary agency were expanded into "HodgePodge," a novel including several characters who feature prominently in the "Scenes" trilogy ("Scenes from a Sistah," "Getting to the Good Part," and "Tastes Like Chicken"). To-date, Files has not chosen to publish the book.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Off Broadway.

paragraph: In 1998, Files appeared in the play "Sisters Who Get Everything Without Giving Up Anything" at the Homefront Theatre, playing lead character Rea Montgomery.

paragraph: Section::::Shakespeare's "Hamlet" vs Files' "Child of God".

paragraph: SUNY Empire State College offers an eight-week course, "Exploring The Disciplines: Literature (EDU-232072)," centered around the examination of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Lolita Files' novel, "Child of God."

paragraph: Per the course description:

paragraph: Section::::"Who Killed Tupac?" Television Docuseries.

paragraph: Files produced and appears as an investigator for A&E's six-part limited series "Who Killed Tupac?" In the series, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump leads an in-depth investigation into the unsolved murder of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur.

paragraph: Section::::Maternal ancestry.

paragraph: In December 2012, at the urging of actor and activist Isaiah Washington, Files took a genealogical DNA test through lineage tracing company African Ancestry. Results came back revealing a direct link of Files' maternal ancestry to the Brame and Balanta people of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Scenes from a Sistah" - Warner Books, April 1997/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Getting to the Good Part" - Warner Books, January 1999/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blind Ambitions" - Simon & Schuster, September 2000/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Child of God" - Simon & Schuster, September 2001/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tastes Like Chicken" - Simon & Schuster, May 2004/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "sex.lies.murder.fame." - Amistad/HarperCollins, January 2006/a

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Short stories.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Roses, Red, Room 416" in the anthology "Black Silk" - Warner Books, February 2002/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bobby Q's Sauce" in the anthology "Twilight Moods" - Flowers in Bloom Publishing, September 2002

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Standing Room Only" in the anthology "Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract" - Washington Square Press, January 2004/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Appropriate Measures" - The Lo Zone, November 2014

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Novella.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three For The Road" in the anthology "You Only Get Better" - Kimani Press, March 2007/a

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Nonfiction.

paragraph: "Once Upon A Time In Compton" (Tim Brennan & Robert Ladd with Lolita Files) - Amazon, April 2017

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Producing.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Who Killed Tupac?" (TV Mini-Series, 2017) - Producer/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Baggage Claim" (Film, 2013) - Associate Producer/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love in the Nick of Tyme" (Video, 2007) - Associate Producer/a

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lolita Files' website, "The Lo Zone"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lolita Files' Books on Amazon.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lolita Files at the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lolita Files Interview on Black Hollywood Live Conversations

paragraph: BULLET::::- USA Today: Online Book Videos Bring Words To Life

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Wall Street Journal: Chick Lit Goes 'Glam'

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Washington Post: Mysteries: Review of "sex.lies.murder.fame" (Under "Seminal Success")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Publishers Weekly Review of "Tastes Like Chicken"

paragraph: BULLET::::- NPR: All Things Considered: Lolita Files Discusses and Reads from "Child of God"

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Washington Post: Judged by Their Back Covers

paragraph: BULLET::::- The New York Times: Open a Book, and There's a Sister Inside

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sun-Sentinel: Far-fetched Tale That's Packed With Fun

description: American writer

wikidata_label: Lolita Files

wikipedia_title: Lolita Files


text:
American
Paris
Baltimore, Maryland
Frederick William Quartley
English
engraver
Chesapeake Bay
Elizabeth Johns
Dutch Masters
New York City
Long Island
New York Harbor
Isle of Shoals
Naragansett Bay
Rhode Island
Hudson River School
Tilers
Winslow Homer
William Merritt Chase
Augustus Saint Gaudens
John W. McCoy
William H. Rinehart
National Academy

categories: Artists from Paris,1886 deaths,Artists from Baltimore,English emigrants to the United States,American male painters,Painters from Maryland,National Academy of Design members,1839 births,Painters from New York (state),American marine artists,19th-century American painters

paragraph: Arthur Quartley

paragraph: Arthur Quartley (May 24, 1839 – May 19, 1886) was an American painter known for his marine seascapes.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father Frederick William Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was reputed to have demanded two drawings per week from the young lad. At age 17, Arthur was apprenticed to a sign painter in Baltimore.

paragraph: In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a design firm in Baltimore. The firm Emmart & Quartley was regarded as the best decorating company in the city ("Dictionary of American Biography"); however, young Quartley began painting marine seascapes of Chesapeake Bay, and progressively spent more and more time in that pursuit. He held a successful show of marine paintings at the studio of Norval H. Busey in Baltimore. Scholar Elizabeth Johns remarked that Quartley's work reveals familiarity with the Dutch Masters marine tradition of composition in treatment of light and color.

paragraph: To pursue his painting more seriously, Quartley moved to New York City in 1875. New York at that time had become a premier center for notable painters. From there he painted seascapes of Long Island bays, New York Harbor, the New Hampshire Isle of Shoals, and Naragansett Bay in Rhode Island.

paragraph: The Hudson River School was waning at this point, so that other groups were forming, among them the Tilers, of whom Quartley was a founding member. The Tilers was a group of artists and writers, that included such luminaries as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Augustus Saint Gaudens. They met frequently to exchange ideas and decorate ceramic tiles in promotion of their works. They also took excursions for painting, such as the 1878 pilgrimage to Eastern Long Island by Quartley and ten others. On that trip Quartley painted "Seascape" and also a blue painted tile of an introspective girl at the beach. The journalist and philanthropist John W. McCoy promoted the careers of Quartley and of his friend, the sculptor William H. Rinehart.

paragraph: In the year 1876 Quartley was elected to the National Academy. Quartley's prominence during his lifetime is illustrated by his inclusion as one of 68 painters in the publication "American Painters" (1880). Some of his noteworthy canvases are: "Early Moonlight, Naragansett Bay" (1877); "Afternoon in August, Coast of Maine" (1878); and "Low Country on the North Shore of Long Island" (1881).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "American Painters", D. Appleton, New York (1880)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjamin, S.G.W., "Our American Artists", New York, London, Garland Publishing Inc. (1879)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Encyclopedia Americana", New York, Chicago (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harrison, Helen, "Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers" Chronicle Books, San Francisco (2002)

alias:
a. quartley
arthur quartley

description: American artist

wikidata_label: Arthur Quartley

wikipedia_title: Arthur Quartley


text: Major General

text: Manchester

text: London

text: England

text: Elizabeth College, Guernsey

text: Royal Military College, Sandhurst

text: British Army

text: medal of honour

text: Indian Mutiny War

text: Governor of British Ceylon

text: Charles Justin MacCarthy

text: Heligoland

text: Newfoundland

text: Newfoundland

text: 1894 bank crash

text: William Whiteway

text: Terenceville

text: Sir Charles O'Brien

text: Governors of Newfoundland

categories: Governors of Newfoundland Colony,British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857,19th-century British military personnel,Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George,Lieutenant Governors of Heligoland,General Officer Commanding, Ceylon,People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey,British expatriates in Sri Lanka,1830 births,British Indian Army officers,British East India Company Army officers,Governors of British Ceylon,1904 deaths

paragraph: Terence O'Brien (colonial governor)

paragraph: Major General Sir John Terence Nicholls O'Brien (23 April 1830 – 28 February 1903) was a surveyor, engineer and colonial governor, born in Manchester, England and died in London, England.

paragraph: He studied at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

paragraph: O'Brien, a British Army officer, received a medal of honour for his service in the Indian Mutiny War. He was appointed acting Governor of British Ceylon in 1863 and held the office for two years, succeeding Charles Justin MacCarthy.

paragraph: In 1881 he was appointed governor of Heligoland, knighted in 1888 and became governor of Newfoundland in 1889.

paragraph: O'Brien as governor of Newfoundland helped precipitate the 1894 bank crash by his many dispatches to London noting that Newfoundland politicians under Premier William Whiteway's Liberal Government were uniquely corrupt and incompetent. He resigned from office in 1895 and returned to London.

paragraph: The Newfoundland community of Terenceville was so named in his honour. O'Brien's son, Sir Charles O'Brien, also became a colonial governor.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Governors of Newfoundland

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at Government House "The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"

description: British colonial governor

wikidata_label: Terence O'Brien

wikipedia_title: Terence O'Brien (colonial governor)


text:
Swedish
ice hockey
left winger
National Hockey League
Frölunda HC
Elitserien
Mikael Andersson
New York Rangers
Lias Andersson
1989 NHL Entry Draft
Quebec Nordiques
Västra Frölunda HC
American Hockey League
Halifax Citadels
Cornwall
New York Islanders
International Hockey League
Denver Grizzlies
Utah Grizzlies
1995–96 season
San Jose Sharks
1997–98 season
Toronto Maple Leafs
Chicago Wolves
Craig Charron
Nashville Predators
Calgary Flames
Chicago Wolves
Frölunda HC
Frölunda HC
Europe
Los Angeles Kings

categories: Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States,Frölunda HC players,Chicago Wolves (IHL) players,Kentucky Thoroughblades players,Los Angeles Kings scouts,New York Islanders players,Halifax Citadels players,Calgary Flames players,Denver Grizzlies players,Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Canada,Quebec Nordiques players,Quebec Nordiques draft picks,1971 births,People from Kungälv Municipality,Living people,Nashville Predators players,San Jose Sharks players,Swedish expatriate ice hockey people,Swedish ice hockey players,Cornwall Aces players

paragraph: Niklas Andersson

paragraph: Niklas Per Andersson (born 20 May 1971) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey left winger. In his career, he spent time with several National Hockey League (NHL) teams as well as various minor professional teams in North America, but mostly played for Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elitserien.

paragraph: He is the younger brother of former hockey player Mikael Andersson and the father of New York Rangers player Lias Andersson.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Andersson was selected in the 4th round (68th overall) of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the Quebec Nordiques, while he was playing in his native Sweden for Västra Frölunda HC. At the age of 20, he left Frölunda to play in the American Hockey League (AHL) for the Nordiques' affiliate, the Halifax Citadels. He played there for two years until the team moved to Cornwall, Ontario. After a year with Cornwall he was signed as a free agent by the New York Islanders, and assigned to their International Hockey League (IHL) club, the Denver Grizzlies (which became the Utah Grizzlies the following year), until being recalled halfway through the 1995–96 season. He finished that year with the Islanders, and played another two before signing with the San Jose Sharks prior to the 1997–98 season.

paragraph: Andersson spent the following year with two minor clubs, one in the AHL and one in the IHL. He was not re-signed by the Sharks, and instead went to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He never played in the NHL for the Leafs, and was instead sent to the IHL's Chicago Wolves until he traded back to the Islanders on 17 August 1999 for Craig Charron. Partway through the season he was claimed off of waivers by the Nashville Predators and played seven games for them before being placed back on waivers and picked up by the Islanders again. He finished the year with them, playing in 17 games and scoring 10 points.

paragraph: During the following off season he was signed by the Calgary Flames, but played most of the season in the IHL with the Chicago Wolves again. After that season, he returned to his native Sweden and his old club Frölunda HC, for whom he had been a key player the past nine seasons.

paragraph: On 9 March 2011, Andersson decided to retire completely from hockey, having played 763 games for Frölunda HC. He is currently an amateur scout covering Europe for the Los Angeles Kings.

description: Swedish ice hockey player, born 1971

wikidata_label: Niklas Andersson

wikipedia_title: Niklas Andersson


href: Saint%20Jerome Eastern%20Orthodox Eastern%20Catholic Nisibis monastic monk monastery abbot pilgrim Saracens slavery slave%20master vocation Trinity igumen ascetic Christian%20monasticism Eastern%20Christian%20monasticism Skete Lavra

text:
Saint Jerome
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Catholic
Nisibis
monastic
monk
monastery
abbot
pilgrim
Saracens
slavery
slave master
vocation
God
igumen
ascetic
Christian monasticism
Eastern Christian monasticism
Skete
Lavra

categories: Year of birth missing,4th-century Christian saints,Syrian Christian monks

paragraph: Malchus of Syria

paragraph: Saint Malchus of Syria (or Malchus of Chalcis, Malchus of Maronia) (died c. 390) is the subject of Saint Jerome's biography "Life of Malchus the Captive Monk" ("Vita Malchi monachi captivi"), written in Latin around 391/392 CE. According to Jerome, Malchus was a monk who was sold into slavery and forced to marry another slave. While never consummating the marriage, he escaped with his wife and returned to his monastery. Jerome interviewed Malchus at his home in Maronia, Syria, while Malchus and his wife were still alive. Malchus is commemorated 26 March by the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, and is in the Roman Martyrology for Oct. 21. There is no record of him except for Jerome's biographical account.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: According to Jerome's account, Malchus was the only child of a farming family that resided near Nisibis during the fourth century. When he reached mature age Malchus' parents desired that he should marry. Malchus left his family home at this time and began his monastic life in the desert of Chalcis.

paragraph: After several years as a monk Malchus heard of his father's death and went home to deal with his inheritance, leaving the monastery against the direction of his abbot. He joined a group of pilgrims headed to his home district, but during their journey they were overtaken by Saracens and sold into slavery.

paragraph: Malchus' slave master insisted that he marry another of the slaves who had been captured in the same raid, and whose husband had been sold to another master. But Malchus, faithful to his monastic vocation refused to consummate the union and threatened to kill himself. The woman told him that she also wanted to live a celibate life, and proposed that she become the partner of his chastity, but not tell their master that they were living as brother and sister.

paragraph: Malchus and his wife eventually escaped their master by fleeing downriver on inflated goatskins. When their master caught up, they hid in a cave but were tracked down. They received protection from God when a lioness using the cave for a den attacked and killed their pursuers, then left with her cub. Then they were able to ride their deceased pursuers' camels back to civilization.

paragraph: According to records, "Malchus sent his wife to a women's monastery as she requested," while he tried to return to his own monastery. "By then the igumen was no longer alive." Malchus ended up going to Maronia, to a men's monastery under the direction of Bishop Evagrius. "For the edification of monks he often recounted his trials, which were the result of his disobedience. Malchus labored in asceticism in the monastery until the end of his life." His wife also transferred to a woman's monastery in Maronia. In their old age, they became close companions again.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christian monasticism

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eastern Christian monasticism

paragraph: BULLET::::- Skete

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lavra

description: Eastern Catholic saint

wikidata_label: Malchus of Syria

wikipedia_title: Malchus of Syria


text:
Lőcse
Nagybánya
Hungarian
mining engineer
Alderman
Kraków
Poland
mayor
Jakob Fugger
monopoly
copper mining
Holy Roman Empire
Fugger
mayor of Kraków
János
archbishop
Breslau
Wroclaw
third son
bishop
Olomouc
Johann Jakob Fugger
Thurzó family

categories: Mining engineers,1437 births,1508 deaths,Hungarian businesspeople,Thurzó family,Polish businesspeople

paragraph: János Thurzó

paragraph: János Thurzó (, , , ; April 30, 1437 in Lőcse – October 10, 1508 in Nagybánya) was a Hungarian entrepreneur and mining engineer. From 1477 until his death he was an Alderman (a member of the city council) of Kraków, Poland, and became even its mayor for a while.

paragraph: By establishing "The Common Hungarian Trade" (, also known as Fugger–Thurzo company), he developed a very profitable business relationship with Jakob Fugger, which held a de facto monopoly over copper mining and trade in the Holy Roman Empire around 1500.

paragraph: Thurzo first married Ursula Boehm and the couple had three sons: György Thurzó who married Anna Fugger, later György Thurzó became the mayor of Kraków; another son of János, became the archbishop of Breslau (today Wroclaw); and their third son became the bishop of Olomouc.

paragraph: His second marriage was Barbara Beck: their daughter Katharina married Johann Jakob Fugger.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thurzó family

description: Hungarian businessman

wikidata_label: János Thurzó

wikipedia_title: János Thurzó


text:
Lieutenant Governor
Province of New Hampshire
Harvard College
merchant
colonel
militia
agent
William Vaughan (military officer)
Province of New Hampshire
John Cutt
Harvard College
Portsmouth
Massachusetts
Jonathan Belcher
Queen Anne's War
London
Joseph Dudley
Samuel Shute
General Assembly
excise
impost
Samuel Shute
Massachusetts
executive
prerogative

categories: 1725 deaths,British military personnel of Queen Anne's War,1676 births,Harvard College alumni,Colonial governors of New Hampshire,People of colonial New Hampshire

paragraph: George Vaughan (New Hampshire)

paragraph: George Vaughan (New Hampshire) (13 April 1676 – 20 November 1725) may be best known for being Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Hampshire for only one year. A graduate of Harvard College in 1696, he was also at various times a merchant, colonel of militia, agent for the province to England, and counsellor.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: George Vaughan was born in 1676 to William Vaughan (military officer) and Margaret Cutt Vaughan. His father was a representative of an English trading firm who migrated to the Province of New Hampshire, where he became a wealthy merchant. His mother also came from a family of merchants, one of whom, her uncle John Cutt, was the first royally appointed governor of the province. Vaughan graduated from Harvard College in 1696, and entered the family business in Portsmouth.

paragraph: In 1697 he married Mary Belcher, the daughter of Massachusetts merchant Andrew Belcher (and sister to future governor Jonathan Belcher). She died in 1699, not long after giving birth to a daughter who also did not survive. In January 1700 he married Mary Elliot.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: When Queen Anne's War broke out in 1702, Vaughan joined the provincial militia, in which he was commissioned a colonel. In 1707 he was chosen by the provincial assembly as the colonial agent, and traveled to London. He was able to parlay his London connections into an appointment as the province's lieutenant governor in 1715. He assumed this office in October 1715, during the governorship of Joseph Dudley. Dudley was also governor of neighboring Massachusetts, and did not come to New Hampshire before his replacement in October 1716 by Colonel Samuel Shute, who was also commissioned governor of both provinces. As a result, Vaughan acted as governor during this time.

paragraph: Vaughan and Shute disagreed on exactly what powers Vaughan held when Shute was not physically present in the province. Vaughan insisted that he had the full powers of the governor during Shute's absence, while Shute felt that Vaughan's powers were limited. The conflict contributed to Vaughan's removal from office in October 1717. Sources disagree on his departure from office:

paragraph: He "resigned his office, after some months of controversy. This was occasioned by his opinions on some important measures not agreeing fully with those of the General Assembly, especially on the excise and impost laws."

paragraph: "In 1716, Samuel Shute, a resident of Massachusetts, was appointed governor of that province and of New Hampshire, and soon after a controversy arose between these two highest officials. The Lieutenant Governor claimed that he was the true and sole executive, when the Governor was absent from the Province, and thereby became vested in all of the prerogatives pertaining to that office. He therefore declined to obey the mandate of his superior, when issued from Massachusetts.

paragraph: "... On the 30th day of September, 1717, Lieutenant-Governor Vaughan was removed from office ..."

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Norris McClintock, "Colony, province, state, 1623-1888: History of New Hampshire", (1889) pp. 136–7 at:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jeremy Belknap, "The history of New-Hampshire: Comprehending the events of one ...," (Volume 2), pp. 17–23, at  accessed 3 September 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::-  accessed 16 September 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas Shannon, MD, "Vaughan and Shannon Families, In: "The New England historical and genealogical register", Volume 5, p. 245 at:  accessed 16 September 2010

description: Colonial governor of New Hampshire

wikidata_label: George Vaughan

wikipedia_title: George Vaughan (New Hampshire)


text:
Gothic painter
Sitges
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Sienese
Peter IV of Aragon
Monastery of Pedralbes
Giottesque
Duccio di Buoninsegna
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Great Canterbury Psalter
Bellpuig
Vic
Arnau
plague
Jaume Cascalls

categories: Catalan painters,1348 deaths,Medieval Catalan artists,Manuscript illuminators,1280s births,14th-century Spanish painters,Spanish male painters,14th-century deaths from plague (disease)

paragraph: Ferrer Bassa

paragraph: Ferrer Bassa ( 1285 – 1348) was a Catalan Gothic painter and miniaturist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was active in the early 14th century, as proved by two documents which attest him working in two chapels at Sitges. Ten years later he worked for Alfonso IV of Aragon, executing miniatures for the manuscripts of the "Uses of Barcelona" and the "Costumes of Catalonia", showing a strong French and Sienese influence. His production increased during the reign of Peter IV of Aragon, especially under royal commissions, such as the "Christ and the Virgin" in royal chapel of Barcelona (1344).

paragraph: His main surviving work is the series of wall paintings in the St. Michael Chapel in the Monastery of Pedralbes. It includes some twenty scenes basing on two main themes: the Passion of Christ and the Seven Pains of the Virgin, showing Giottesque influences, as well as from Duccio di Buoninsegna and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

paragraph: He has been attributed with the main role in the Catalan phase of the Great Canterbury Psalter. Also attributed to Bassa are a "Coronation of the Virgin" in the church of Bellpuig and a "St. Bernard" in the museum of Vich. His son Arnau was also a painter and collaborated with his father on several works. They both died of plague in 1348.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jaume Cascalls

alias:
Ferrarius de Baco
Ferrarius de Baço
Ferrer de Baça
Ferrer De Baco
Ferrer Baso
Ferrer de Baço
Ferrarius Bassa

description: Gothic painter and illuminator from 14th century. He introduced Italian style in Crown of Aragon

wikidata_label: Ferrer Bassa

wikipedia_title: Ferrer Bassa


text: Los Angeles

text: expressionism

text: minimalism

text: pop art

text: University of California at Los Angeles

text: photorealist

text: Richard Estes

text: Audrey Flack

text: Chuck Close

text: Centre Georges Pompidou

text: Francis Bacon

text: William S. Burroughs

text: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

text: Beat Generation

text: Gerhard Richter

text: Mark Rothko

text: Agnes Martin

text: Shane Guffogg

text: Chris Watts

text: Alison Van Pelt Official Website

text: Profile on L.A. Art House

text: Dayton Institute of the Art: the Women

text: OCHI Gallery Press Release: Alison Van Pelt All American

text: Roseart New Art Week: Alison Van Pelt

text: Ochi gallery Artist Bio Alison Van Pelt

text: Alison Van Pelt: A Painter's Touch

text: Chac Mool Press Release Alison Van Pelt

text: Yogamatic 5-minute interview and yoga pose demo

categories: Artists from Los Angeles,American women painters,American people of Dutch descent,1963 births,University of California, Los Angeles alumni,Living people

paragraph: Alison Van Pelt

paragraph: Alison Van Pelt (born September 16, 1963, Los Angeles) is an American painter. Trained in Los Angeles and Florence, Van Pelt is established as a contemporary artist whose work is informed by expressionism, minimalism and pop art.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Van Pelt was born and raised in California and grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended the University of California at Los Angeles. She came of age in the 1970s and her distinctive photorealist painting style is evocative of that era, when photography was assimilated into the art world. Painters—Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack and Chuck Close among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs. Van Pelt begins by referencing a photograph or other existing image from which she draws and paints a realistic portrait entirely by hand. Next comes the work of obscuring the carefully rendered image. From a distance the image appears soft, as though photographed through a mist. But as the viewer approaches the work, vertical lines can be seen, and on closer inspection a sort of horizontal weave emerges. One writer described the effect this creates on Van Pelt’s "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve" as, "so thick with paint and lines that it actually appears to have been applied to wood, not canvas.

paragraph: In response to the observation that her work is abstract, Van Pelt has said, "It’s my way of merging the tradition of portraiture with contemporary abstraction. I’m interested in ambiguity." A sublime tension is created in the contradiction between the crisp photorealism with which she first delineates her subject and the purposeful act of obscuring this subject, which ensues. Viewed up close, a grid of ambiguous color meets the eye, but with distance the viewer gains the necessary objectivity to discern the subject. However, even with this revelation, a question remains as one writer so aptly noted: "Are the figures stepping forth into the tangible world or are they receding into the depths of the canvas?"

paragraph: The impetus for this creative tension has its origins in a visit to Paris in 1988. At the Beaubourg at Centre Georges Pompidou, Van Pelt was captivated by the way Francis Bacon had smeared the paint on the face of one of his subjects, and that same evening found a postcard in which the nighttime streetlights appeared as blurry lines. After she returned home to California, the memory of these two images led Van Pelt to experiment with blurring the paint on a portrait of a woman’s face. Her style had coalesced. Her technique caught the attention of Los Angeles dealer Robert Berman, whose gallery exhibited several solo shows of Van Pelt’s work.

paragraph: In 1992, Van Pelt traveled to Florence, Italy to study painting at the Florence Academy of Art, where the ethereal style of her work prompted comparisons to the Shroud of Turin. During the two years she spent studying abroad, she showed her work in solo exhibitions overseas: the show New Work appeared at Galerie Paul Sties in Krönberg, Germany, New Paintings at Galerie Lauter in Mannheim, Germany, and Les Animaux Nouveaux at Galerie Vedovi in Brussels.

paragraph: Van Pelt’s portrait of William S. Burroughs welcomed visitors to Ports of Entry, an exhibit of Burroughs’ work held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1996. The Beat Generation hero’s portrait, which appears on the cover for his book, has been described as a ghost-like image. One journalist described Van Pelt’s portrait of Burroughs as "peering out at us with his trademark craggy deadpan, looking characteristically haunted." A Parisian art collector, who also videotapes séances claimed that her paintings looked exactly like the ghosts he records.

paragraph: Section::::Influences.

paragraph: Despite the interest that the visceral nature of Bacon’s paintings initially sparked, in comparison, Van Pelt’s work evokes a more languid approach to her subjects… Gerhard Richter and Mark Rothko are among the artists who have exercised considerable influence on Van Pelt’s technique. More than one reviewer has noted that her portraits recall Richter’s blurred portraits of the infamous RAF members embroiled in the Baader-Meinhof scandal in the 1970s, but without the dark political associations. Nancy Burson’s composite portraits also come to mind. The line and grid work of Agnes Martin sparked Van Pelt’s meticulous attention to detail in which Van Pelt places as much focus on each brush stroke as she does on a piece of work in its entirety. Van Pelt has said that Plato’s universal flow resonates for her.

paragraph: Section::::Published work.

paragraph: Paul Ruscha’s FULL MOON, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2006

paragraph: The Eclectic Eye; Selections from the Frederick R Weisman Art

paragraph: Foundation, Published by the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation,

paragraph: Los Angeles, CA, copyright 2004. Full page, four color reproduction, page 177,

paragraph: with text page 176. 2005

paragraph: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 26th Annual Benefit Art

paragraph: Auction 2005, full color illustration page 12. 2005

paragraph: Komanecky, Michael & Van Pelt, Alison. Alison Van Pelt The Women

paragraph: The DaytonArt Institute, Dayton, Ohio 2004

paragraph: Yalkut, Jud. A Tribute to Some of the Greatest Female Artists

paragraph: of the 20th Century, A & C Visuals Dayton City Paper Weekly News & Culture,

paragraph: April 1 6, 2004, pg. 13.2004

paragraph: Rollins, Ron. About Face, Arts and Entertainment, Dayton

paragraph: Daily News, March 14, 2004

paragraph: Appel, Brian. Fall Contemporary Art Sales in New York, Art Critical.com, December, 2004, David Cohen, editor. 2004

paragraph: Lassell, Michael. Sand Box, Metropolitan Home, March/April 2003

paragraph: Reginato, James. W at Home House of Brad, W, October 2001

paragraph: Sobieszek, Robert, A. Fight. Rusconi Publishing, Los Angeles, California 2000

paragraph: Stunning Painting, Art Scene, January 2000

paragraph: Paintings, Arts and Entertainment, January 2000

paragraph: Ochi Exhibition, Wood River Journal, January 2000

paragraph: The Universal Language, dART INTERNATIONAL, Winter 1999

paragraph: Artist Profile, Cosmopolitan, August 1999

paragraph: Wiener, Nicole. The Gadget Versus the Soul, Exhibition of the Human Form, FORM, June 1999

paragraph: Collins, Linda. Whats On, The Argonaut, May 1999

paragraph: Flight and the Figure: the Paintings of Alison Van Pelt, Rusconi Publishing, Los Angeles, 1999

paragraph: Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1998

paragraph: Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998

paragraph: Campbell, Clayton. Alison Van Pelt, Ouverture, July 1998

paragraph: Neusch, Walter. Geheimnisvoll, ArtHaus, June 1998

paragraph: Star Artist, Los Angeles Magazine, May 1998

paragraph: Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1998

paragraph: Condo, Anna and Jerryl Oristaglio. Ah Allen, A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Grenfell Press, New York 1998

paragraph: Blue Paintings, ArtCONNOISSEUR, Volume 1, Number 1 1998

paragraph: Plattner, Anuschka. Ausstellung, Deutsche Word, February 1998

paragraph: Man Ray in Hollywood, dART INTERNATIONAL, January 1998

paragraph: Melrod, George. Femme Noir, World Art, No. 12 1997

paragraph: Zappa, Moon. Earth to Moon, RAYGUN, November 1997

paragraph: Ports of Entry, Exhibition Catalogue Cover, Los Angeles County Museum of Los Angeles County Museum of Art reproduction and text, pp. 154–158. 1996

paragraph: Joselit, David. Burroughs Virology, Art in America, November. 1996

paragraph: Garnier, Philippe. Burroughs, La Liberation, August 26, 1996

paragraph: Art Auction, Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. 1996

paragraph: Scheer, Robert. Los Angeles Times, January 10. 1996.

paragraph: Melrod, George. Openings, Art & Antiques, September 14, 1995.

paragraph: Finch, Liz. Whats on Art, The Argonaut, September 14, 1995

paragraph: Marx, Heike. Das Blaue, Stop, July 1995

paragraph: Madigan, Nick. Illusion or Reality? Santa Monica Outlook, August 19, 1994.

paragraph: Reviews, ArtScene, October 1992

paragraph: Carlson, Lance. Open House, Artweek, October 8, 1992

paragraph: The Book/Los Angeles, Kahn & Partners, Los Angeles, 1989

paragraph: Section::::Solo exhibitions.

paragraph: If I Were Ed Ruscha..., Ventura College, Ventura, CA, January 2011 February 2011

paragraph: All American, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID, December 2010 January 2011

paragraph: Alison Van Pelt, The Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, June 2006 August 2006

paragraph: The Women, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, January 2004 June 2004

paragraph: America: The News, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004

paragraph: Paintings on Paper, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002

paragraph: Fight, Ochi, Los Angeles, CA 2000

paragraph: Flight and the Figure, Ochi, Ketchum, ID 1999

paragraph: Figures, Gallery 813, Los Angeles, CA 1999

paragraph: Blue, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1998

paragraph: Eros, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1998

paragraph: Motion, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1997

paragraph: Les Animaux Nouveaux, Gallerie Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium 1997

paragraph: Blue, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1995

paragraph: New Paintings, Gallerie Lauter, Manheim, Germany 1995

paragraph: New Works, Aschenbach Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1994

paragraph: Recent Works, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

paragraph: New Paintings, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 1994

paragraph: New Work, Gallerie Paul Sties, Kronberg, Germany 1993

paragraph: New Paintings, Robert Berman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1992

paragraph: Nouvelles Oeuvres, Ulla Lutz Studio, Basel, Switzerland 1992

paragraph: La French Collection, Les Andelys, France 1992

paragraph: Tableaux Nouveaux, Ader Tajan, Paris, France 1992

paragraph: New Works, B-1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991

paragraph: Section::::Group exhibitions.

paragraph: Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans - 2010

paragraph: Under the Influence of Fashion and Finance, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2010

paragraph: Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY - 2010

paragraph: Homage to the Artists, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID - 2009

paragraph: Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA - 2008

paragraph: California Art, Platt/Borstein Galleries at American Jewish University, Bel Air, CA

paragraph: LA Art House, Beverly Hills, CA- 2009

paragraph: Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA - 2006

paragraph: Small Wonders II, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2006

paragraph: Portraits, curated by Shane Guffogg, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2005

paragraph: The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH - 2005

paragraph: Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA - 2004

paragraph: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA - 2004

paragraph: Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2004

paragraph: California State University at Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA - 2003

paragraph: Spike Gallery, New York, NY - 2003

paragraph: Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV - 2002

paragraph: Ah Allen, New York, NY - 1998

paragraph: Track 16, Santa Monica, CA - 1996

paragraph: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - 1996

paragraph: Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1994

paragraph: Ader Tajan, Paris, France - May 1992

paragraph: Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1992

paragraph: Section::::Public and Corporate Collections.

paragraph: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Bank of America, San Francisco, CA

paragraph: Castilla Foundation, Madrid, Spain

paragraph: Chevron Corporation Chevron Environmental Management Company,

paragraph: San Ramon, CA

paragraph: Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

paragraph: Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

paragraph: Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

paragraph: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

paragraph: Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

paragraph: Kayne Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA br

paragraph: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: NASA, Washington, D.C.

paragraph: The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

paragraph: NBC Studios, New York, NY

paragraph: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

paragraph: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, NY br

paragraph: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

paragraph: Van Pelt Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

paragraph: Section::::Private collections.

paragraph: Lance Armstrong, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Michael Bay, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Arthur Beale, Boston, MA

paragraph: Robert Berman, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Jeffery Best, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Riccardo Boatto, Venice, Italy

paragraph: Andre Boissier, New York, NY

paragraph: Blake Byrne, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Ted Chervin, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Pippa Cohen, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Sean Combs, New York, NY

paragraph: George Condo, New York, NY

paragraph: Dane Cook, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Fiona Corsini, Venice, Italy

paragraph: Sheryl Crow, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Ron Davis, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Donald DeLine, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Estate of Diana, Princess of Wales, Althorp, England

paragraph: Jim Dicke II, Dayton, OH

paragraph: Sante D’Orazio, New York, NY

paragraph: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Dr. Cristoph Graf Douglas, Frankfurt, Germany

paragraph: Steve Estridge, Chicago, IL

paragraph: Peter Farrelley, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Katie Ford, New York, NY

paragraph: Jaime Frankfurt, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Jimmy Goldstein, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Steve Golin, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Shane Guffogg, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Alex Haaf, Frankfurt, Germany

paragraph: Mariel Hemingway, New York, NY

paragraph: Mark and Skye Hoppus, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Susanna Hyatt, San Francisco, CA

paragraph: Audrey Irmas, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Philip Isles, New York, NY

paragraph: Mitch Kupchek, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Jeanette Longoria, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Dr. Rolf Lauter, Frankfurt, Germany

paragraph: Eugenio Lopez, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Eugenio and Isabella Lopez, Mexico City, Mexico

paragraph: Bryan Lourd, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Caryn Mandabach, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Agnes Martin, Taos, NM

paragraph: Brad and Annie Mason, Rancho Santa Fe, CA

paragraph: Billie Milam, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Robert Morton, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Jerry Moss, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Fred Nicholas, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Mme. Odermatt, Paris, France

paragraph: Richard O’Hare, Chicago, IL

paragraph: Richard Plepler, New York, CA

paragraph: President Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, New York, NY

paragraph: Pat Poncy, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Paul Ruscha, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Ronnie and Vidal Sassoon, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Peter Sennilson, London, England

paragraph: Bob Shaye, New York, NY

paragraph: Doug Simon, Pasadena, CA

paragraph: Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Cheryl Tiegs, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Sting and Trudie Styler, New York, NY

paragraph: Paolo Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium

paragraph: Hans Rothenberg Von Waldenvogel, Berlin, Germany

paragraph: Chris Watts, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Thomas Weisel, San Francisco, CA

paragraph: Irwin Winkler, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Estate of Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, CA

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alison Van Pelt Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alison in profile against an “If I Were Ed Ruscha” painting in NY Times “The Insider” article

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on L.A. Art House

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dayton Institute of the Art: the Women

paragraph: BULLET::::- OCHI Gallery Press Release: Alison Van Pelt All American

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Shroud of William Lee: Alison Van Pelt's Portraits of William Burroughs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roseart New Art Week: Alison Van Pelt

paragraph: BULLET::::- VC Art Gallery Exhibition -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha..."

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ventura College Art Gallery Review - "If I Were Ed Ruscha..." by Alison Van Pelt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ochi gallery Artist Bio Alison Van Pelt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Huffington Post Jewelry Designer Kathy Rose on Reality TV, Roseark and her Husband Rick

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alison Van Pelt: A Painter's Touch

paragraph: BULLET::::- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Alison Van Pelt "Georgia"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chac Mool Press Release Alison Van Pelt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yogamatic 5-minute interview and yoga pose demo

description: American artist

wikidata_label: Alison Van Pelt

wikipedia_title: Alison Van Pelt


text: Barcelona

text: San Feliu de Llobregat

text: Vilafranca del Penedés

text: Bagatelle trials

text: hybrid tea rose

text: Pernet

text: Conard-Pyle

text: spinosissima

text: ‘Nevada,’

text: Gaudí

text: Eugenio Fojo

text: 'Nevada'

text: Roseraie de L'Haÿ

text: Sangerhausen

text: Pedro Dot rose list

paragraph: Pedro Dot

paragraph: Pedro Dot (1885–1976) was a Spanish rose breeder.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Pedro Dot (in Catalan, Pere Dot i Martínez) was born on 28 March 1885 outside Barcelona on the rose-growing Monistrol estate (now better known for sparkling wine) where his father was estate manager. His early experiments in hybridising roses were encouraged by the Marquise of Monistrol, also titled Countess of Sástago. The countess lent him money to get started, eventually repaid by dedication of one of his finest roses. His father Simon, born into a peasant family but a notable gardener and plant breeder, started a small nursery nearby at San Feliu de Llobregat, where the soil is very alkaline and where the family firm of Rosas Dot is still to be found. Pedro took charge of the roses and later the whole firm. Eventually he moved to Vilafranca del Penedés on the other side of Barcelona, but retained San Feliu de Llobregat. At sixteen he was sent to work at an outside business and in 1910 to Belgium and Paris, where he came across the new methods of hybridisation, not to mention the French attitude to garden art. To escape the small stage of Spanish horticulture, he subsequently played to a world audience.

paragraph: As early as 1924, Pedro entered new roses in scores of international competitions, winning a certificate of merit at the Bagatelle trials in Paris with the variety ‘Margarita Riera.’ He used such choice varieties as ‘Frau Karl Druschki,’ ‘Souvenir de Claudius Pernet,’ and ‘Mme Edouard Herriot’ to produce a large number of brightly coloured hybrid tea roses that all performed well in hot climates. They mostly have "Pernetiana" ancestry – Pernet was the first to breed the intense yellow colour and strong smell of "Rosa foetida" into hybrid tea roses – and are not frost hardy. ‘Marí Dot’ won a prize in Strasbourg and ‘Condesa de Sástago’ the first Rome Prize; later it became very popular in the United States. It was the first successful bicolor rose, with petals scarlet on the front, golden yellow on the back. Conard-Pyle imported many of these roses into the United States under their original names, but only a few seem to have been patented. From 1925 Dot also began to use the pollen of wild roses in his breeding.

paragraph: Undoubtedly, Dot’s most successful rose (a hybrid spinosissima) was ‘Nevada,’ released in 1927. The great climber ‘Mme Grégoire Staechelin’ came out in the same year. Given that a breeder often has scores of seedlings to choose from, Dot consistently chose roses with a wilder and more extreme character than their parents'. In that way he has something of the expressionism of his fellow Catalan, Gaudí. Dot also renewed the tradition of moss roses with 'Golden Moss' (1932), the first yellow moss ever bred.

paragraph: Throughout the 1930s Dot successfully built on the work of Joseph Pernet-Ducher to produce a range of flame-colored roses, from pastel to hot orange blends. Examples include ‘Catalònia’, ‘Condesa de Sástago’, ‘Angels Mateu’, ‘Girona’, ‘Maria Peral’, ‘Duquesa de Peñaranda’ and ‘Federico Casas’. With ‘Baby Gold Star’, ‘Golden Sástago’, and ‘Joaquin Mir’, Dot achieved true, deep yellows.

paragraph: He was a member of the Amigos de las Rosas, founded in Barcelona in 1931 with Rubio, Cambo, Ros Sabaté, and Cyprien Camprubí, hybridiser of the well-known 'Violonista Costa.' His pupil Eugenio Fojo became well known in northern Spain.

paragraph: Dot was supported during the Civil War by commissions from the Republican government of Barcelona and by regular funds from Conard-Pyle and American rosarians. Though his sons Simon and Marí fought at the front for the losing Republicans, the business was partly shielded from Nationalist victory by American money and support. During the Civil War and for twenty years after it, Dot hybridised miniature roses, revolutionising the field. His genetic theory was to cross hybrid teas and miniatures, thus better improving the form than hybridisers who used polyanthas.

paragraph: Pedro Dot was the most famous Spanish rose breeder, but in the 1960s his son Simon became a breeder himself, particularly of mauve and lavender roses. Pedro’s other son Marino and his two grandsons all released roses in the 1960s and 1970s. Because of Pedro’s fame, some of their roses have been wrongly attributed to him.

paragraph: Pedro Dot died at 91 on 12 November 1976.

paragraph: Section::::Rose names and dedications.

paragraph: Until the Second World War it would have been true to say that the name of every Dot rose was also its dedication. In the 1920s these are mostly to family members ('Marí Dot') and aristocratic patrons ('Cayetana Stuart'). In the Republican period they are to Catalan patriots ('Angel Guimera') and Republican towns not yet taken by the Nationalists ('Lleida,' 'Girona'); later to international supporters ('Sénateur Potié') and Catalan patriots ('Ramon Bach') killed in the war. After the Second World War, alas, they decline generally speaking into tributes to international celebrities and tourist locales.

paragraph: Section::::The survival of Dot's work.

paragraph: 'Nevada' and 'Mme Grégoire Staechelin' will certainly survive. Dot's miniatures are safe with their aficionados. The problem lies with Dot's wonderful hybrid teas. His firm continues in business and it offers about 60 roses for sale, but only ten by Pedro himself. Vintage Gardens nursery in California had a score for sale in a State where they do well. A handful survive in European public gardens, notably the Roseraie de L'Haÿ near Paris and the Roseraie François Mitterrand in the south of France. Luckily there are 66 in the encyclopaedic collection of Fineschi in Italy and 32 extra at Sangerhausen in Germany. But many of Dot's 140 or so hybrid teas — among the greatest oeuvres in roses — hang by a thread from private collectors in Spain. The beautiful 'Angelita Ruaix' for instance is preserved by her elderly daughter on a balcony in Barcelona.

paragraph: Australian collections contain at least the floribunda ‘Cascabel,’ ‘Catalònia,’ ‘Condesa de Sástago,’ ‘Duquesa de Peñeranda,’ 'Frivolité,' ‘Girona,’ ‘Golden Moss,’ ‘Lady Trent’ ('Julia Ferran'), ‘Linda Porter’ (‘Miguel Andrufeu’), ‘Lola Montes,’ ‘Mme Grégoire Staechelin,’ ‘Nevada,’ ‘Pilarin Vilella’ and ‘Rádio.’ There are also many miniatures.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pedro Dot rose list

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The website of Dot's family firm, Rosas Dot

paragraph: BULLET::::- A complete, referenced and illustrated online encyclopedia of Catalan roses, including those of the Dot family, is being assembled by the Amics des Roses de Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Its Catalan is fairly easy to translate into English using Google Translate.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Spanish) Jaume Garcia, "La rosa Àngels Mateu i el castell de Peralada" [The rose Angels Mateu and the castle of Peralada], accessed 15 June 2012, shows Pedro Dot in his milieu.

alias:
Pere Dot i Martínez
Pere Dot Martinez

description: Spanish rose breeder

wikidata_label: Pedro Dot

wikipedia_title: Pedro Dot


text:
Hungarian
Kálmán Rózsahegyi
Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest
Berek Kati
Imre Soós
Ferenc Bessenyei
Kerepesi Cemetery
National Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania
Romeo and Juilet
Caesar and Cleopatra
Paradise Lost
The Tragedy of Man
After the Fall
Alba Regia
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Official page on Színészkönyvtár

categories: Hungarian stage actresses,1929 births,1987 deaths,20th-century Hungarian actresses,Hungarian television actresses,Hungarian film actresses

paragraph: Hédi Váradi

paragraph: Hédi Váradi (22 September 1929 – 11 April 1987) was a Hungarian actress.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: At the age of 18, Hédi took acting lessons from the Hungarian acting teacher Kálmán Rózsahegyi at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. In her classes, she met other types of artists such as Berek Kati and Imre Soós.

paragraph: She was for a long time married to Ferenc Bessenyei, but the couple later divorced. After having life-saving surgery, she later died from a serious illness. She was laid to rest at the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: After 1952, Hédi started working in the Madách Theatre in Budapest, and from 1964, she worked in the National Theatre until her death. Her forceful personality and deep, catching style of play made excellent comedy and drama roles. She was famous for her role in Shakespeare's comedy play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as Titania.

paragraph: Section::::Major theatre roles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romeo and Juilet" - Juliet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Caesar and Cleopatra" - Cleopatra (1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Paradise Lost" - Mira

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Tragedy of Man" - Eve

paragraph: BULLET::::- "After the Fall" - Maggie

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yegor Bulychov and Others" - Kszenyija

paragraph: Section::::Acting roles.

paragraph: Section::::Acting roles.:Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dalolva szép az élet" (1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kiskrajcár" (1953)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Föltámadott a tenger (parts I-II". (1953)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ifjú szívvel" (1953)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mese a tizenkét találatról" (1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A tettes ismeretlen" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gerolsteini kaland" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Éjfélkor" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vasvirág" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Micsoda éjszaka" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kölyök" (1959)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fapados szerelem" (1959)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Egy régi villamos" (1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alba Regia" (1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Puskák és galambok" (1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Délibáb minden mennyiségben" (1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meztelen diplomata" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Már nem olyan időket élünk" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az orvos halála" (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harlekin és szerelmese" (1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kötelék" (1967)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dóra jelenti" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pokolrév"(1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az örökös" (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nápolyt látni és..." (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az utolsó kézirat" (1986)

paragraph: Section::::Acting roles.:Television films.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A mama" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vihar a Sycomore utcában" (1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hotel Germánia" (1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ne éljek, ha nem igaz" (1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gömböc" (1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Utak" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az utolsó budai pasa" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hivatalos utazás" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Menazséria" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Amerikából jöttem" (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az asszony és az igazság" (1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oly korban éltünk 1-5". (1966–67)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Germán vakáció" (1967)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Könnyű kis gyilkosság" (1967)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Három találkozás" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nyomozók társasága" (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tévedni isteni dolog" (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Asszonyok mesélik" (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kérem a következőt!" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Egy gazdag hölgy szeszélye" (1986)

paragraph: Section::::Acting roles.:Animated films.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: On 11 April 2003, the 16th anniversary of Hédi's death, Deputy Mayor John Schiffer inaugurated a memorial ceremony to the actress at her former residence in the Hercegprímás District of Budapest on Second Street.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official page on Színészkönyvtár

description: Hungarian actress

wikidata_label: Hédi Váradi

wikipedia_title: Hédi Váradi


text: United States Marine Corps

text: Medal of Honor

text: Banana Wars

text: United States occupation of Haiti

text: Charlemagne Péralte

text: commission

text: Haiti

text: Navy Cross

text: occupation of Nicaragua

text: Pacific Theater

text: World War II

text: Silver Star

text: Legion of Merit

text: Bronze Star

text: brigadier general

text: St. Louis, Missouri

text: private

text: sergeant

text: Haiti

text: second lieutenant

text: Navy Cross

text: Gendarmerie

text: Quantico, Virginia

text: 6th Regiment

text: Brazil

text: Marine Detachment

text: commanding officer

text: Naval Air Station Lakehurst

text: New Jersey

text: Philadelphia Navy Yard

text: Nicaragua

text: Central America

text: José María Jirón Ruano

text: Augusto César Sandino

text: Mare Island

text: 1st Marine Division

text: Camp Pendleton

text: Oceanside, California

text: 2nd Battalion of 7th Marine Regiment

text: Guadalcanal campaign

text: Silver Star

text: Julian N. Frisbie

text: 7th Marines

text: Peleliu action

text: Legion of Merit

text: Cape Gloucester operation

text: Bronze Star

text: LaJolla, California

text: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

text: San Diego, California

text: List of Medal of Honor recipients

categories: Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States),United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients,Recipients of the Legion of Merit,Recipients of the Silver Star,American military personnel of World War I,American Marine Corps personnel of World War II,Military personnel from St. Louis,Burials at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery,1893 births,United States Marine Corps generals,1986 deaths

paragraph: Herman H. Hanneken

paragraph: Herman Henry Hanneken (June 23, 1893 – August 23, 1986) was a United States Marine Corps officer and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Beginning his career as an enlisted man, Hanneken served in the Banana Wars of the 1910s and 1920s. During the United States occupation of Haiti, he assassinated the resistance leader Charlemagne Péralte, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Subsequently, granted a commission, Hanneken served in Haiti for several more months and was awarded a Navy Cross for killing another rebel leader. He received a second Navy Cross for his actions during the occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s.

paragraph: After a decade of stateside duty, he served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. During this conflict, he was awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star. He retired in 1948, after a thirty-four-year career, and was promoted in retirement to brigadier general.

paragraph: Section::::Early years and career.

paragraph: Herman Henry Hanneken was born on June 23, 1893, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Henrick Preparatory School in that city.

paragraph: He enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in July 1914, and served the following five years in the enlisted ranks, rising to the rank of sergeant.

paragraph: Section::::Occupation of Haiti.

paragraph: The United States invaded Haiti in 1915 and occupied the country for 19 years. In the years following the initial invasion, rebel forces under Charlemagne Péralte conducted an armed resistance to the occupation. On the night of October 31–November 1, 1919, Hanneken assassinated the resistance leader, Péralte. Hanneken was disguised and led into the rebels camp in Northern Haiti by Jean-Baptiste Conze, one of Péralte's officers who betrayed the Haitian leader. In the short skirmish that ensued, Hanneken killed Péralte and about 1,200 of his followers were killed, captured, or dispersed. Hanneken subsequently circulated a photograph of Péralte's half-naked body tied to a door. However, the attempt to intimidate backfired and instead evoked sympathy for Péralte. Hanneken was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" and "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in actual conflict with the enemy" and, in December 1919, commissioned as a second lieutenant.

paragraph: In another raid just five months after the death of Charlemagne, he shot and killed Osiris Joseph, another Haitian rebel leader who succeeded Charlemagne. He was awarded the Navy Cross for this act.

paragraph: Upon appointment as a second lieutenant he was assigned to train the Haitian police force, the Gendarmerie. [This may be an error: It is reported that it was Marine Major Smedley Butler, who also won a Medal of Honor for his exploits, who went on to serve as commanding officer of the Haitian Gendarmerie]. He was ordered to return to the United States in April 1920, and following his arrival at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to a special course at the Marine Corps Schools.

paragraph: Section::::1920s service and occupation of Nicaragua.

paragraph: As a member of the 6th Regiment, First Lieutenant Hanneken sailed for Brazil to participate in the Brazilian Exposition. The unit returned to Quantico in the latter part of 1922, and several months later, he was transferred to the Marine Detachment, , where he assumed duties as commanding officer.

paragraph: In January 1925, he was transferred to the Marine Barracks, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, and in April 1927, was detached to the Marine barracks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

paragraph: Again ordered to foreign shore duty in December 1928, he arrived in Corinto, Nicaragua in January of the following year. Upon his arrival in Nicaragua he was assigned to duty with the 2nd Brigade of Marines. The United States had invaded this Central American country in 1912 and had been occupying it since. A month after his arrival Hanneken captured another leader of the rebel forces resisting the invasion by the United States. He was awarded his second Navy Cross for "bringing in" General José María Jirón Ruano, the Guatemalan Chief of Staff of the Nicaraguan General Augusto César Sandino.

paragraph: Section::::Service in the 1930s.

paragraph: In July 1930, Hanneken returned to Quantico to attend the Company Officers' Course at the Marine Corps Schools. Upon graduation in January of the next year, he was transferred to the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, California, and later to the Naval Base, at San Pedro, California. His next assignment found him at the Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California, in August 1936, where during his tour of duty he was appointed a major.

paragraph: Major Hanneken was ordered to Quantico in June 1938, and two months later reported for a course of instruction at that base in the Senior Course, Marine Corps Schools.

paragraph: From June 1939 to December 1940, he was commanding officer, Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts. He was next ordered to New York to assume command of the Marine detachment aboard the with additional duties as Transport Quartermaster.

paragraph: Section::::World War II and later life.

paragraph: He served with the 1st Marine Division from June 1941 until November 1944, when he returned to the United States to command the 2nd Infantry Training Regiment and the Headquarters Battalion, at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California.

paragraph: While with the famed 1st Marine Division his duties were varied. While commander of the 2nd Battalion of 7th Marine Regiment during the Guadalcanal campaign he was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy. Hanneken relieved Colonel Julian N. Frisbie as commanding officer of the 7th Marines and led this regiment during the Peleliu action, where he received the Legion of Merit for meritorious conduct in action, and during the Cape Gloucester operation he was decorated with the Bronze Star.

paragraph: In September 1945, he was assigned as commanding officer of the Staging Regiment at the Marine Training and Replacement Command, San Diego Area, prior to his transfer to the Troop Training Unit, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet.

paragraph: It was as Chief of Staff of that organization that he was transferred to the retired list for Marine Corps officers. He retired on July 1, 1948, concluding a 34-year career in the Marine Corps. He was advanced to his final rank of brigadier general upon his retirement for having been specially commended for service in actual combat.

paragraph: Brigadier General Hanneken died on August 23, 1986, at the Veterans Hospital in LaJolla, California, and was buried with honors four days later at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California. He was 93 years old.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: HANNEKEN, Herman Henry

paragraph: 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps

paragraph: G. O. Navy Department, No. 536

paragraph: June 10, 1920

paragraph: Citation:

paragraph: For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in actual conflict with the enemy near GRANDE RIVIERE, Republic of Haiti, on the night of October 31st-November 1st, 1919, resulting in the death of Charlemange Peralte, the supreme bandit chief in the Republic of Haiti, and the killing and capture and dispersal of about 1200 of his outlaw followers. Second Lieutenant Hanneken not only distinguished himself by his excellent judgement and leadership, but unhesitatingly exposed himself to great personal danger, and the slightest error would have forfeited not only his life but the lives of the detachments of Gendarmerie under his command. The successful termination of his mission will undoubtedly prove of untold value to the Republic of Haiti.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients

description: United States Marine Corps officer

wikidata_label: Herman H. Hanneken

wikipedia_title: Herman H. Hanneken


text:
rally driver
World Rally Championship
Italian Rally Championship
European Rally Championship
Italian Rally Championship
Driver pofile

categories: Italian rally drivers,World Rally Championship drivers,Living people,1951 births

paragraph: Dario Cerrato

paragraph: Dario Cerrato, (born 2 September 1951) is a former Italian rally driver three times on the podium in World Rally Championship races. He won five times the Italian Rally Championship.

paragraph: Section::::Other results.

paragraph: BULLET::::- European Rally Championship

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2 wins (1985, 1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Italian Rally Championship

paragraph: BULLET::::- 5 wins (1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Driver pofile at Rallye-info.com

description: rally driver, two-time winner of the European Rally Championship in the 1980s

wikidata_label: Dario Cerrato

wikipedia_title: Dario Cerrato


text: Grand Duke Ferdinando III

text: "Librettos"

text: uprising in 1848

text: Grand Duke Leopoldo II

text: Macbeth

text: Verdi

text: Der Freischütz

text: Carl Maria von Weber

text: Cecilian Movement

text: Stabat Mater

text: Rossini

text: Santa Croce

text: Teodulo Mabellini

text: Haydn

text: Mozart

text: Beethoven

text: Mendelssohn

text: Wagner

text: Gounod

text: Meyerbeer

text: Abramo Basevi

text: Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi

text: Conservatory of Florence

text: Ferruccio Busoni

text: Giovanni Gualberto Guidi

text: "Stabat Mater"

text: Pergolesi

text: Cimarosa

text: François-Joseph Fétis

text: Codice Squarcialupi

text: Laurentian Library

text: Galleria dell'Accademia

text: Rossini

text: Bellini

text: Donizetti

text: Meyerbeer

text: Hummel

text: Basilica della Santissima Annunziata

text: Masseangelo Masseangeli

text: Piombino

text: Sonnambula

text: "Before 1849"

text: Basilica di San Lorenzo

text: "Treccani.it"

text: Musical Documentation Center of Tuscany

categories: People from Würzburg,1881 deaths,Italian Romantic composers,Italian male composers,People from Florence,1807 births,19th-century Italian composers

paragraph: Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata

paragraph: Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata (Würzburg, 15 May 1807 – Florence, 24 September 1881) was a composer and Italian music critic.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Before 1849.

paragraph: He was the son of the Grand Duke's inspector Luigi Giacomo Casamorata, who stayed with the Grand Duke Ferdinando III in exile in Germany. Already, when he was seven years old, he moved to Florence and studied piano. In 1825, while he was attending law school at the University, he tied a competition for composition at the Accademia di Belle Arti with Ferdinando Giorgetti. At that point, he attempted a career in theater. He composed some ballets, but his attempts to write a comic opera were opposed by the producers, who forced him to instead debut with a dramma, Iginia d'Asti, first seen in Pisa in 1838 but was immediately jeered at in Bologna few months later (see also the section "Librettos"). There is information regarding two other attempts at dramas, of which there remains no trace. After his theatrical "fiasco", he finished his studies in Law (his signed "Avv. Casamorata" for his entire life), but he never abandoned music; however, he became better known as a critic than as a composer. He collaborated with the following publications: "Gazzetta musicale di Milano", "La Patria", "Il Nazionale", and "Il Costituzionale", alternating his writing regarding music with political pamphlets.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:The delusion of the Risorgimento.

paragraph: He participated in the uprising in 1848, but when the Grand Duke Leopoldo II returned to the throne, after the uprising, in 1849 his beliefs were disillusioned and from that moment on, he abandoned being active in the revolt. In this atmosphere of disillusion, he started to alternate journalism with some public administrative duties: he was part of the Board of Directors of the Railroad in Livorno, was gonfalonier in Fiesole, and town counselor/representative in Florence.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Characteristics as a critic.

paragraph: He was a very traditionalist critic, linked to formalist ideals. He was convinced that the main scope of music was to imitate nature, and many times he would go into a detailed description of technical cerebral aspects. Two of his most famous reviews were those of the debut of "Macbeth" by Verdi at the Pergola in 1847 (a very long review that was published in the "Gazzetta musicale di Milano" between 11 April and 2 June 1847), in which he judged the music as pleasant, but defined the libretto as a sequel of "a great deal of rubbish"; and that of the first representation in Italy, at the Pergola in 1843, of "Der Freischütz" by Carl Maria von Weber, judged as unbalanced between the wind instruments and strings.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:The debate regarding sacred music.

paragraph: He actively participated in the debate regarding the esthetics of sacred music, inaugurated by the Cecilian Movement (with which he actively collaborated in the writing of the "Manifest of Sacred Music" in 1877). At the beginning he was a permissive and interested observer of all types of church music, but over time he became harsher, almost to the point of intransigence. In fact, he defined the Stabat Mater by Rossini as "un-religious".

paragraph: Section::::Life.:The promotion of instrumental music.

paragraph: Another area that he favored was the promotion of instrumental music, especially German instrumental music, in Italy. He organized concerts for quartets and symphonies in the large concert halls in his villa located in Via delle Pinzochere (near Santa Croce). He also founded an association for wind instruments, the "Società artistico-musicale degli strumenti a fiato", in 1864. In addition, he sought to organize stable orchestras and teatri scuola (theater schools) in Florence. In fact, his articles inspired the "Philharmonic Association" in Florence (from 1859 Teodulo Mabellini was the orchestral director) to perform the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Gounod and Meyerbeer.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Conservatory of Florence and the fame of the 60s and 70s.

paragraph: His activities and dedication brought him fame and national respect, and in 1859 he was requested to organize Florence music school together with Abramo Basevi and Girolamo Alessandro Biaggi. In 1862, he helped found what is now the Conservatory of Florence, and became the first director of the school, which was a title he held until his death. Thanks to this role, he became a sort of international authority on the history of Italian music: he celebrated for the entire decade of the 1870s concerts that were organized and held in Florence, which attracted artists such as Franz Liszt; talented composers dedicated pieces of music to him (Ferruccio Busoni dedicated l'op. 21 to him in 1880); publishers called him to revise scores (for example, Giovanni Gualberto Guidi employed him for the publication of the "Stabat Mater" by Pergolesi in 1877); and his experience was highly sought for the study of Italian operas (in 1874 the Conservatory of Paris turned to him in order to attribute an alleged Cimarosa's opera). He also wrote for the European Encyclopedia (starting in 1877 he collaborated with Arthur Pougin in order to update the "Biographie universelle" of François-Joseph Fétis. He handled the biographies of Tuscan artists.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Collectionist and expert of antique music.

paragraph: His fame was solidified when he found the Codice Squarcialupi in the Laurentian Library. From that moment on, he was also considered to be an expert of antique music. He wrote papers about people such as Francesco Nigetti (the inventor of the "cembalo a cinque tastiere") and Father Mauro dei Servi di Maria (theorist of the sixteen-hundreds). He curated manuscript editions, collected antique instruments, and compiled papers about out-of-date aspects of performance customs. At his death, he left his own library and his instruments to the Conservatory of Florence. Today, the donated instruments are preserved in the Museum of Musical Instruments in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.

paragraph: In addition to three theatrical operas that were unsuccessful, he composed a couple of cantatas, some ballets, instrumental music (a concerto for flute, one for clarinet, 4 symphonies, 2 overtures), various works for chamber music (including the reworked version of themes by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer and Hummel), many works for theory and study (a manual of harmony which was published in Florence, a course for voice which remains only handwritten, a paper regarding musical notation which has been lost, a paper on the construction of the organ which did not oppose the use of electricity, and a historical overview of theatrical costumes), e molta musica sacra, di cui circa 14 messe, molte però rimaste inedite., as well as a lot of sacred music, of which about 14 masses, which, however, remain unedited.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Autographs.

paragraph: His autographs of sacred music are found in the Archive of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata; however, because specific studies have not been carried out, the exact number of pieces is unknown. Other autographs are found in the following locations:

paragraph: BULLET::::- At the Conservatory of Naples:

paragraph: BULLET::::- a mass for three voices from 1839

paragraph: BULLET::::- a "Magnificat" dated 1842

paragraph: BULLET::::- a mass for three voices dated 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- the second quartet for strings from 1858

paragraph: BULLET::::- a symphony from 1859

paragraph: BULLET::::- an "Ave Maria" for four voices from 1871

paragraph: BULLET::::- two antiphons for four voices dated 1878

paragraph: BULLET::::- At the Conservatory of Florence (some are also digitalized):

paragraph: BULLET::::- a quartet for pianoforte, clarinet, horn and bassoon (printed by Boosey);

paragraph: BULLET::::- a "Benedicta" dated March 5, 1869

paragraph: BULLET::::- At the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna:

paragraph: BULLET::::- an "Absolve Domine", maybe owned by Masseangelo Masseangeli, dated September 11, 1877

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Manuscript copies.:Copies in Florence.

paragraph: The institution that preserves the greatest number of manuscript copies of Casamorata's works is the Conservatory of Florence:

paragraph: BULLET::::- the cantata that won the competition in 1825

paragraph: BULLET::::- a cantata, "Beatrice", for the florentine celebration of Dante in 1865

paragraph: BULLET::::- the instrumental variations on the themes of Hummel, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti and Hummel

paragraph: BULLET::::- concerts for flute and clarinet

paragraph: BULLET::::- some pieces for oboe, with piano accompaniment or orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- exercises for organ dated 1874

paragraph: BULLET::::- pieces that survived of his ballets

paragraph: BULLET::::- chamber music (at least four quartets and one trio)

paragraph: BULLET::::- orchestral pieces (preludes, the ouverture op. 2, symphony n. 3)

paragraph: BULLET::::- dramatic studies (recitives and cavatine, dated from 1836 and 1866)

paragraph: BULLET::::- collections of pieces by other celebrated composers that Casamorata arranged (or had arranged) for students of the conservatory

paragraph: BULLET::::- a patriotic song "alla Patria e al Re"

paragraph: BULLET::::- few religious pieces (a mass and some "Armonie religiose" to the text of Pietro Metastasio).

paragraph: The current state of research does not permit us to establish that these copies are autographs with certainty, although we can hypothesize a consistent number, since the number of compositions carried out from the copies conforms with most of the noted works by Casamorata.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Manuscript copies.:Other copies.

paragraph: Out of Florence, the spread of manuscripts of Casamorata was because of his sacred music. The lack of specific research regarding the musical possessions of Italian parishes doesn’t allow for the affirmation of how extensive the spread of his sacred works is. However, the presence of a collection of his psalms in Turin (Biblioteca del Capitolo Metropolitano), of an "Ave Maria" in Naples, a "Salve Regina" in Pistoia and some masses in the archive of the Sant'Antimo Church in Piombino, discovered by Musical Documentation Center of Tuscany, would indicate that the spread of his works is very large.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Printed editions.

paragraph: He published in Florence (especially with Genesio Venturini and Angiolo Lucherini), Milan (with Giovanni Canti and Ricordi) and also with Parisian (Delanchy) and London-based publishers (Boosey). Many of his sacred compositions circulate in well-known magazines. The Palatina Library in Parma has the first edition (around 1831) of the "Variazioni per pianoforte" on a theme from "Sonnambula" by Bellini, printed by Artaria (Milan) and Lucherini (Florence), work that was published in the variation for harp by Ricordi. Other printed editions have been found at the Conservatory of Florence (the institution that preserves the greatest number), the Conservatory in Milan and in Brescia, the National Library of Florence, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, the Accademia Filarmonica and the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Librettos.

paragraph: The libretto of "Iginia d'Asti", the only opera of his that exists today, is preserved in two versions: published by the printer named Pieraccini from Pisa following the first performance, and the other published by Della Volpe al Sassi, following the fiasco in Bologna. Both are dated 1838 (see the paragraph "Before 1849"). The version by Pieraccini is at the National Library in Florence, at the Cini Foundation in Venice, and at the Palatina Library in Parma. The version by Della Volpe is at the Cini Foundation, at the Archiginnasio and the Conservatory of Bologna, at the Biblioteca Comunale Centrale of Milan, at the Saffi Library in Forlì, at the Library of Ravenna and at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

paragraph: Section::::Works and sources.:Modern editions.

paragraph: The Paideia publishers of Brescia and Bärenreiter of Kassel printed one of his complete masses, "Messa completa", in 1981

paragraph: Section::::Letters.

paragraph: One of his letters to Ricordi from 1845 is preserved at the French National Library.

paragraph: Section::::Recordings.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In July 1997, at the Brüdernkirche in Braunschweig, the organist Hans-Dieter Karras recorded, together with other pieces, a "Complete Mass" for organ by Casamorata for the recording label Prospect.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 2003, the organist Klemens Schnorr performed the same mass (together with other pieces) on the organ of the Cattedrale di Saragozza for a CD distributed by the recording label Motette (Harmonia Mundi) in 2006.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In November 2014, in the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence, the organists Antonio Tronci, Filippo Tronci and Gabriele Giacomelli performed a concert for organ composed in Florence from XVIth century to XIXth century, which also included two pieces by Casamorata. The concert was recorded and distributed as a CD by the recording label named Tactus in 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Masutto, "I maestri di musica italiani nel secolo XIX. Notizie biografiche", Venezia, Tipografia Cecchini, third edition 1882, p. 37;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riccardo Gandolfi, "Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata", in "Ricordi Musicali Fiorentini", II (1906–1907), Firenze, Brizzi & Niccolai, 1907;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adelmo Damerini, "Gli albori della critica musicale italiana: L. F. Casamorata", in "La rassegna musicale", VI/1 (gennaio–febbraio 1933), Torino, Tipografia Fedetto, 1933, pp. 31–40;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andrea Della Corte, "La critica musicale e i critici", Torino, UTET, 1961, pp. 478–481;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claudio Sartori, "Casamorata, Luigi Ferdinando" (sub voce) in "Enciclopedia dello spettacolo", edited by Silvio d'Amico, executive editor Sandro d'Amico, editor of the section about musical theatre Fedele d'Amico, vol. III: "Car-Daf", Roma, Le Maschere, 1954, new edition Roma, Unedi, 1975, p. 155;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marcello De Angelis, "La musica del Granduca. Vita musicale e correnti critiche a Firenze (1800–1855)", Firenze, Vallecchi, 1978, "passim"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clara Gabanizza, "Casamorata, Luigi Ferdinando" (sub voce), in "Dizionario biografico degli italiani", vol. 21, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1978, available on-line at "Treccani.it" (It);

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Caglio, "Contributo del Casamorata al Movimento Ceciliano italiano", in "Rivista internazionale di musica sacra", I/1 (1980), Milano, NED, 1980, pp. 18–41;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Casamorata, Luigi Ferdinando" (sub voce), in "Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti", edited by Alberto Basso, serie II: "Le biografie", vol. 2: "BUS-FOX", Torino, UTET, 1985, p. 132;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fabio Bisogni, "Casamorata, Luigi Ferdinando" (sub voce), in "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik begründet von Friedrich Blume", edited by Ludwig Finscher, serie I: "Personenteil", vol. 4: "Cam-Cou", Kassel-Basel-London-New York-Praha, Bärenreiter/Stuttgart-Weimar, Metzler, 2000, columns 333–335;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sergio Lattes, "Casamorata, Luigi Ferdinando" (sub voce), in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Second Edition", edited by Stanley Sadie, executive editor John Tyrrell, vol. 5: "Canon to Classic rock", London, Macmillan, 2001–2002, p. 227;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claudio Paradiso (ed.), "Il cavalier Ferdinando Giorgetti, musicista romantico a Firenze", Roma, Società editrice di musicologia, 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Musical Documentation Center of Tuscany

description: Italian composer and scholar

wikidata_label: Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata

wikipedia_title: Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata