February 2012 Blog Posts (82)

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Nothing was better calculated to win him favour.-- In 1740, Gomez de Andrade, Governor for the King of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, being one of those who was convinced that the reason why the Jesuits guarded their territories so religiously was that they had mines, bethought him of a plan.The greatest luxury of the Indians was `mate', and to produce it they worked in the `yerb ales' in the same way in which they worked their fields -- in bands…

Nothing was heard but lamentations and expressions of hatred of the Portuguese, mingled with denunciations of the Jesuits themselves, who the poor Indians not unnaturally believed were in league with Spain to sell them to the Portuguese.The `people being scandalized', the Governor sent for the friars, admonished them, and told them to restrain their zeal.The citizens were divided into camps, and daily fought amongst the sandy streets…

, cap.During the night he revived, and dragged himself up to some rocks; but the Indians in the morning, following up his trail, came on him praying in a loud voice.The popular Argentine poem, `La Vuelta de Martin Fierro', by Jose Hernandez (Buenos Ayres, 1880), has an illustration showing an expedition against the Indians returning.-- These open rolling plains, called by the natives `campos quebrantados', are generally studded…

* The Guaranis in Brazil were known either as Tupis, from the word `tupy',** savage, or Tupinambas, from `tupynamba', literally, the savage or indigenous men.Lodged as he was in the college of the Jesuits, he must have felt that most of the advice which was so freely tendered him was biassed, and to relieve Louis Vuitton-Handbag Cosmetic Pouch N47516 Ebony

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, cap.On arriving at Asuncion he found a rebellion going on, as not infrequently occurred when a Spanish Governor left his domains.Gomez Andrade advised the court of Lisbon to exchange it against the seven reductions*2* of the Uruguay, and thus at once to secure a country rich in gold and to adjust the frontier at the river Uruguay.They also seem to have endeavoured to reduce the Guarani language to writing.He did go as far as a point…

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La P.O.W. Gallery di Torino, esclusiva galleria sita nell'elegante Piazza Castello di Torino, cerca artisti pittori e scultori italiani e stranieri per la mostra collettiva intitolata "PROSERPINA ART PROJECT: Il ritorno della Primavera" in programma dal 16 marzo al 7 aprile 2012.

Ciascun artista è chiamato a rappresentare un'opera inerente al ritorno di Proserpina, ovvero,…

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Over manier van werken met olieverf. En soms een beetje met acryl

Eerst weten, wat je wilt. Welk motief,  vooral: welke kleur(en) en niet eens: welk onderwerp. Dat gaat het schilderij later zelf bepalen.

Dan: welke tubes van welk merk. Dan gaat er al een halve dag mee heen om alles klaar te zetten: houdertje voor natte kwasten, mengsel om te verdunnen, schone kwasten, palet, doeken in grote aantallen.

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