Dia X: «Ten Lords a Leaping»

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On the tenth day of Christmas

my true love sent to me:

Ten Lords a Leaping

Nine Ladies Dancing

Eight Maids a Milking

Seven Swans a Swimming

Six Geese a Laying

Five Golden Rings

Four Calling Birds

Three French Hens

Two Turtle Doves

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

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Christmas Song - 12 Days Of Christmas

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Anthony van Dyck, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and His Brother Lord Francis Villiers (1635, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, Londres)

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Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Lord John Townshend

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William Hogarth, Lord Hervey and His Friends (c.1738-c.1739, The National Trust, Ickworth, Suffolk)

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George Stubbs, Lord and Lady in a Phaeton (1787, National Gallery, Londres)

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Thomas Gainsborough, Lord Hastings, Governor of India (1783-1784, Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo)

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Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron (1824)

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John Singer Sargent, Lord Ribblesdale (1902, National Portrait Gallery, Londres)

A invenção artística

Pintura de Sir Joshua Reynolds, Autorretrato (c. 1747-1749, National Portrait Gallery, Londres).

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«A que nível difere a invenção artística da invenção útil? Difere tanto quanto a sensibilidade humana difere do resto do universo. As invenções artísticas alteram a sensibilidade da humanidade. (...) as invenções estéticas alargam directamente a consciência humana, com novos modos de viver o universo, e não com novas interpretações objectivas».

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George Kubler (1990).