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Gustave Courbet, “The Stone Breakers”, 1849 – destroyed during World War II when a transport vehicle moving the pictures to the castle of Königstein, near Dresden, was bombed by A…
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22/07/2017 at 12:52
Ace Worldwide News Group
Another great post Sarah and tells us so much about the world through pictures like these … So much lost in wars and those that would steal history leaving us with so many questions … Lots of hugs Ian X
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22/07/2017 at 14:12
First Night Design
Thanks, Ian. x
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22/07/2017 at 20:39
Ace Worldwide News Group
Truly welcome Sarah and thanks for all your spreading of my posts and 👍 🌹
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22/07/2017 at 12:49
Ace Worldwide News Group
Reblogged this on Ace Friends & Bloggers News.
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12/07/2017 at 17:46
moorezart
Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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10/07/2017 at 13:28
D. Wallace Peach
So sad that these were lost. Part of the zillions of reasons not to have wars.
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10/07/2017 at 13:48
First Night Design
Unquestionably.
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09/07/2017 at 18:18
olganm
It is very sad as art communicates and touches people in a way that other things don’t. A book I read recently, The Lover’s Portrait made me think about the subject too. I wonder how many art pieces are still hiding (knowingly or not). Thanks, Sarah and Laurence.
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09/07/2017 at 18:55
First Night Design
Much more, I’m sure. And you hit it on the nail when you say art touches us in ways other things don’t. Creating it myself, for instance, gives me a satisfaction that I never thought I’d find outside of acting. It was a revelation!
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09/07/2017 at 17:10
Adrienne Morris
I think of the artifacts being destroyed by ISIS http://bit.ly/1EOqnAN so sad. Horrible actually.
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09/07/2017 at 17:42
First Night Design
It’s horrendous. Centuries come and go and so much history is lost because of war. Beggars belief but that’s an understatement.
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09/07/2017 at 14:54
Jennie
So sad! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the art.
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09/07/2017 at 17:41
First Night Design
Very sad. I love the Courbet particularly.
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09/07/2017 at 18:55
Jennie
🙂
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09/07/2017 at 14:01
Mary Smith
Being destroyed in a bombing raid is bad enough (but understandable) what I find dreadful is the theft and hiding works of art from the world. What would be the point of having a wonderful painting and having to keep it secret in a bank vault? Does the person visit from time to time to gloat over it before locking it away again?
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09/07/2017 at 17:40
First Night Design
I know. It seems pointless. There’s nowt so queer as folk.
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09/07/2017 at 12:42
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09/07/2017 at 12:40
humphries346
Thanks for posting the Stone Breakers of 1849. Courbet together with Jacques Louis David are my favourite French artists both were great Revolutionaries Courbet like David was exiled to Brussels during the Counter Revolution They Both survived Courbet was responsible for smashing the Vendome Column as a Revolutionary during the short Lived Paris Commune . Marx wrote about the Commune and Eleanor Marx had a relationship with Lissagaray a young Communard who wrote a History of the Commune . He was also a anarchist. Courbet a truly great proletarian artist and the architect of Realism. I have written about him on my Blog. Laurence x
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09/07/2017 at 17:39
First Night Design
My pleasure, Laurence. There is so much on your blog I have yet to explore!
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09/07/2017 at 12:08
beetleypete
Those Nazi art thieves have a lot to answer for!
Best wishes, Pete. x
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09/07/2017 at 17:38
First Night Design
Most assuredly. x
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