One dignity delays for all,
One mitred afternoon.
None can avoid this purple,
None evade this crown.
Coach it insures, and footmen,
Chamber and state and throng;
Bells, also, in the village,
As we ride grand along.
What dignified attendants,
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!
How pomp surpassing ermine,
When simple you and I
Present our meek escutcheon,
And claim the rank to die!
- Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
I find it hard to grasp the meaning of "mitred", can anyone help? - Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
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I find it hard to grasp the meaning of "mitred", can anyone help? - Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
I think you are right. Thanks a lot!
mitre -
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
"mitred" is the passive form of mitre when it's used as a verb.
- Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
Can 'A reader' find me some info about 'Egyptian Blue' ?
Thanks in advance! - posted on 09/21/2004
Title: The Use of Egyptian Blue and Lapis Lazuli in the Middle Ages: The Wall Paintings of the San Saba Church in Rome
Personal Author: Gaetani, Maria Carolina; Santamaria, Ulderico; Seccaroni, Claudio
Peer Reviewed Journal: Y
Journal Name: Studies in Conservation
Source: Studies in Conservation v. 49 no. 1 (2004) p. 13-22
Publication Year: 2004
Physical Description: Bibliographic footnotes; Graph; Illustration; Table
ISSN: 0039-3630
Language of Document: English
Abstract: In the wall paintings of the church of San Saba (Rome), dating to the first half of the eighth century AD, Egyptian blue and lapis lazuli have been detected mixed together within the same pictorial layer. These are the oldest western paintings where lapis lazuli has been used as a blue pigment. This paper cites other instances of the use of lapis lazuli in ninth-century paintings and of Egyptian blue in late mediaeval paintings. Thus the dates for the commencement of the use of lapis lazuli and the discontinuation of Egyptian blue are significantly modified. Furthermore, the occurrence of both of these blue pigments in the San Saba wall paintings proves that the change from one to the other did not occur suddenly and that these two pigments were used concurrently in the same geographical context. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
- posted on 09/21/2004
Lapis Lazuli is my favorite mineral, originally it's from Afghan,
that legend area.(many ancient books had mentioned them)
Afterwards it comes the Islam blue(?), as to the Byzantium and
middle-age arts...
As for Egyptian Blue, I still have no idea, where it came from,
from minerals, plants, beetles or cones ? Where it goes, where can
we see them now ?
But I have 'tyrian purple'.(this may be Emily's purple)
I want to see the ancient color for the sake of the ancient eye.
Sometimes I feel the eye-color can be changed with the dye...
Thanks a reader! - posted on 09/21/2004
Here's a short definition. Taken from:
Title: The art of glass working
Personal Author: Matoian, Valerie
Peer Reviewed Journal: Y
Journal Name: Near Eastern Archaeology
Source: Near Eastern Archaeology v. 63 no. 4 (December 2000) p. 220-1
Publication Year: 2000
Physical Description: Illustration
ISSN: 1094-2076
Language of Document: English
Abstract: Part of a special issue on discoveries at Ras Shamra-Ugarit on the central Syrian coast. Objects produced from vitreous materials played a role in several of the luxury craft industries at Ugarit. One of the most important Near Eastern corpora of faience, Egyptian blue, glass and glazed ceramic objects dating to the Late Bronze Age, has been discovered at the site. The writer discusses the nature of these objects, the stylistic influences in evidence, and the origin of a series of objects in faience as revealed by archeometric analysis.
- Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
Thanks, A Reader.
I got the idea where the blue comes from, the aklaline, the
Copper, calcite, all inorganic materials.
- posted on 09/21/2004
xw,
I believe the following publication will have answers to most of your questions (specially the article on Egyptian blue).
ar
Title: Current research in Egyptology III :
December 2001 /
Author(s): Ives, Rachel.
Conf Author(s): Symposium for Current Research in Egyptology (3rd : 2001 : University of Birmingham)
Publication: Oxford, England : Archaeopress,
Year: 2003
Description: iv, 75 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
Series: BAR international series ;; 1192;
Contents: The lotus reborn / Andrew Bednarski -- The arrival of the horse in Egypt / Miriam Bibby -- Aspects of the Hyksos' role in Egyptian society from the artistic evidence / Charlotte Booth -- Some thoughts on the social organisation of dockyards during the New Kingdom / Angus Graham -- Egyptian blue / Gareth D. Hatton, A.J. Shortland and M.S. Tite -- The specialness of science / Elizabeth Hind -- Crossing the night / Peter Robinson -- Trends in burial evidence / Joanne M. Rowland -- Representations of Hathor and Mut in the Hibis temple / Nina Wahlberg.
- Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
More info on the article:
Gareth D. Hatton, A.J. Shortland and M.S. Tite, (Research Laboratory of Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University), 'Egyptian Blue: where, when and how?', 35-44
- Re: A Poem by Emily Dickinsonposted on 09/21/2004
Probably too technical, this one.
ar
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