Notes to the Gretchie Verse ..limited edition...collectors item...collect all 2000 of them...

Dear Gretchie Verse: I wasn't going to blog today because I have a lot to do. Not only do I have two days with of dishes (note I live with slobs) and piles of laundry....but I have my final qualifying tour due in one week and I am freaking out...so you know instead of doing what I am supposed to be doing ...why not blog instead ?

reminds me of my OSB days !

My Anthem Today: The Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite

No, really I look like this...this young..really

FB PEEPS: Okay, about the whole 3D Mascara thing...it works awesome because I have tried it and it makes my lashes look when I was in my twenties.

my Rah Rah

Rah Rah : I love your deep blue eyes and your beautiful eyelashes ! Hold on to them as long as you can. I had those lashes...and now I have like 4 on each eye...why don't they make 3D Hair ? I would LOVE more hair !!!

Just some light reading on altars...

What I am reading currently for a piece I have on my qualifying tour...

Love you my dear friend !!

My beautiful friend Shal who is in LA with my friend Colleen. We need to be exactly where we were last year...Bangalore, India. Visiting temples in our bare feet in the hot hot sun and getting too close to monkeys ! Good Times Ladies !!!

The Virgin and Child by Ambrogio Bergognone

Jesus of the Week: Um, you know I am not doing what I should be doing because I got Jesus of the week going on....
My thoughts about the piece : What is written on Mary's Halo ? Why is Jesus in a yellow small gown ? Why is he not wearing even a cloth diaper ? Why does he again have blonde hair ? They are both greyish in color almost monochrome.  May does have a beautiful red gown on with a gorgeous blue cape holding her red rosary beads. Why would Mary need beads ? What is she reading from the bible ?

What is really going on behind this painting :

The Christ Child holds a rosary. The book on the parapet is inscribed with passages in Latin from Psalms 51 and 70 used in the morning service, such as 'O Lord open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise' and 'Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord'.
The Virgin's halo is inscribed with the words of the prayer 'Ave Maria Gratia Plena Dominus Tecum...' (Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee).

In the background to the right, the Charterhouse at Pavia is seen in the course of construction which suggests the dating for this picture. Bergognone was one of the leading painters in Milan at the time, and made several paintings for Pavia.

The Artist: Well, actually nobody knows when he was born and when he died. They do however know what years he was active. The painting dates 1488 to 1490 according to the National Gallery in London. I looked up on Wikipedia about his style of painting. I would never be thought to write as something such as this ever :)  I am not sure about the underlined statement, but it would seem to explain why Mary and Christ are greyish in color. I could be wrong about that. Feel free to comment about it...really feel free....I can be wrong and be okay with it !
Wikipedia: 
But to judge of his real powers and peculiar ideals, his system of faint and clear coloring, whether in fresco, tempera or oil; his somewhat slender and pallid types, not without something that reminds us of northern art in their Teutonic sentimentality as well as their fidelity of portraiture; the conflict of his instinctive love of placidity and calm with a somewhat forced and borrowed energy in figures where energy is demanded, his conservatism in the matter of storied and minutely diversified backgrounds to judge of these qualities of the master as they are, it is necessary to study first the great series of his frescoes and altar-pieces at the Certosa, and next those remains of later frescoes and altarpieces at Milan and Lodi, in which we find the influence of Leonardo and of the new time mingling with, but not expelling, his first predilections.